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And they're SFW!Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.comBlogger838125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-61340449010665865402026-10-21T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-21T07:00:00.112-04:00Halloween HeartBreak HAUNTED LOVE "Reunion" Part 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">"Gothic romances" were one of the <i>last</i> genres to make it to comic books...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-URN02ZOmnpU/Tese6U_mJ1I/AAAAAAAACY0/vQsOMxQqFwo/s0/image29005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-URN02ZOmnpU/Tese6U_mJ1I/AAAAAAAACY0/vQsOMxQqFwo/s0/image29005.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and once they arrived, didn't last very long.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This story is from the longest-lasting title, <i><b>Charlton's</b></i> <b>Haunted Love</b>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IzJnWM6eJvw/Tese9gzZoqI/AAAAAAAACY4/_VceBxVBQkY/s0/image29006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IzJnWM6eJvw/Tese9gzZoqI/AAAAAAAACY4/_VceBxVBQkY/s0/image29006.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZVwAlwn52E/TesfEWK2q2I/AAAAAAAACY8/zZbVqDRIdvQ/s0/image29008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZVwAlwn52E/TesfEWK2q2I/AAAAAAAACY8/zZbVqDRIdvQ/s0/image29008.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxrhJeuRfO8/TesfCVICGkI/AAAAAAAACZA/Q6r6OK6kERE/s0/image29009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxrhJeuRfO8/TesfCVICGkI/AAAAAAAACZA/Q6r6OK6kERE/s0/image29009.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHWWCBAorFU/TesfJexMEmI/AAAAAAAACZE/VIMojbrQmSk/s0/image29011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHWWCBAorFU/TesfJexMEmI/AAAAAAAACZE/VIMojbrQmSk/s0/image29011.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xe4bjKO-wCM/TesfKcgBYLI/AAAAAAAACZI/h04IKRrM2Sw/s0/image29012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xe4bjKO-wCM/TesfKcgBYLI/AAAAAAAACZI/h04IKRrM2Sw/s0/image29012.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wNBz06o2QqE/TesfLmkcJSI/AAAAAAAACZM/qyS_qscmqJs/s0/image29013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wNBz06o2QqE/TesfLmkcJSI/AAAAAAAACZM/qyS_qscmqJs/s0/image29013.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X932kcGcyJw/TesfTcqWnuI/AAAAAAAACZQ/ohjZ8ZZiy_o/s0/image29014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X932kcGcyJw/TesfTcqWnuI/AAAAAAAACZQ/ohjZ8ZZiy_o/s0/image29014.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M07S26gSDf0/TesfRRL-s2I/AAAAAAAACZU/5hOYguVmTqE/s0/image29015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M07S26gSDf0/TesfRRL-s2I/AAAAAAAACZU/5hOYguVmTqE/s0/image29015.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Will Anton and Nadia "put one over" on Daniel, or is Nadia <i>actually</i> psychic?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Will Daniel and Cleo be reunited?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">And if so, how?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Will True Love prevail?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><b>Fear Not! </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">You <i>don't</i> have to wait until next week!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">The heart-tugging conclusion will be posted...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">You'll cry your eyes out if you miss it!<br /></span><b style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;">Support True Love Comics Tales</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Order...</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-65238272303611160102026-10-14T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-14T07:00:00.118-04:00Halloween HeartBreak WEIRD THRILLERS "SandFlower of Venus"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Alien Worlds <i>May</i> Have Potentially-Lethal Flora and Fauna...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YK_WGy5sU3A/UQFkUp62ZWI/AAAAAAAAghA/pCTyahefQMk/s0/WrdTh1_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YK_WGy5sU3A/UQFkUp62ZWI/AAAAAAAAghA/pCTyahefQMk/s1600/WrdTh1_03.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>...but</span><span> </span><i>every</i><span> </span><span>spacer knows the</span><span> </span><i>most dangerous creature</i><span> </span><span>in the Universe is...Man!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Or is it?</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ktBqRK5fSJg/UQFkUmA3cJI/AAAAAAAAgg8/PVrODr3-l-A/s0/WrdTh1_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ktBqRK5fSJg/UQFkUmA3cJI/AAAAAAAAgg8/PVrODr3-l-A/s1600/WrdTh1_04.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MV-S9zAWmTA/UQFkUmw3-zI/AAAAAAAAgg4/HzT2iDXXkyc/s0/WrdTh1_05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MV-S9zAWmTA/UQFkUmw3-zI/AAAAAAAAgg4/HzT2iDXXkyc/s1600/WrdTh1_05.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p9kUC5vftjA/UQFkYOSLSAI/AAAAAAAAgg0/icfBwR6nAsM/s0/WrdTh1_06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p9kUC5vftjA/UQFkYOSLSAI/AAAAAAAAgg0/icfBwR6nAsM/s1600/WrdTh1_06.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3z9McjYzvoQ/UQFkYnIyuZI/AAAAAAAAggw/J8KdIRHgMvQ/s0/WrdTh1_07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3z9McjYzvoQ/UQFkYnIyuZI/AAAAAAAAggw/J8KdIRHgMvQ/s1600/WrdTh1_07.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b-6jBVMbvbI/UQFkY0_YRsI/AAAAAAAAggs/vJL7FfHUMdA/s0/WrdTh1_08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b-6jBVMbvbI/UQFkY0_YRsI/AAAAAAAAggs/vJL7FfHUMdA/s1600/WrdTh1_08.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q6os3TcQcB8/UQFka-NLLYI/AAAAAAAAggo/PIXwlpGPaQM/s0/WrdTh1_09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q6os3TcQcB8/UQFka-NLLYI/AAAAAAAAggo/PIXwlpGPaQM/s1600/WrdTh1_09.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A7Y2C26pYpY/UQFkcCr7wjI/AAAAAAAAggk/9oSnDliHJ7g/s0/WrdTh1_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A7Y2C26pYpY/UQFkcCr7wjI/AAAAAAAAggk/9oSnDliHJ7g/s1600/WrdTh1_10.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I take it back.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most dangerous creature in the Universe is <i>Woman!</i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This never-reprinted tale from <b><i>Ziff-Davis'</i> Weird Thrillers</b> #1 (1951) was probably illustrated by a round-robin of Dan & Sy Barry, Murphy Anderson, and Frank Giacoia.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The writer is unknown, but may well be the editor, Jerry Siegel, who forever affected how pre-pubescent males thought of women with his creation of </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Lois Lane</b></i><span style="text-align: left;">, the nosy reporter who was <i>always</i> trying to either expose</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;">Superman's</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">secret identity or trick the Man of Steel into marrying her!</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Next Week:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">We Don't Yet Know What We'll Present, But We Guarantee That...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>Support True Love Comics Tales</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Buy...</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-51423515434776891472026-10-07T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-08T10:41:58.091-04:00Halloween HeartBreak / Tales Twice Told WEIRD TERROR "Satan's Love Call" & TALES OF VOODOO "Devil Power"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">There's <i>True Love</i>...</span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHoDkC-S1g7Jd3YrmiyDtDRW_1RfQflvpQQbySKXRu0MhfbWHp-4cFhyCKAeCQD_TPud3GOpWtR-65jjTz_G7vpTxfiA75rkMyPEu8pgBoiAT4GXf3yNWq8lDGoW72erkYwaMB677-yGVMdWQqn5k5fYKyOIQ0Ax8NXeUxSTg9StzwC9ZhfA5KAzj4aA/s780/WeirdTerror11-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHoDkC-S1g7Jd3YrmiyDtDRW_1RfQflvpQQbySKXRu0MhfbWHp-4cFhyCKAeCQD_TPud3GOpWtR-65jjTz_G7vpTxfiA75rkMyPEu8pgBoiAT4GXf3yNWq8lDGoW72erkYwaMB677-yGVMdWQqn5k5fYKyOIQ0Ax8NXeUxSTg9StzwC9ZhfA5KAzj4aA/s1600/WeirdTerror11-01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>...and then there's</span><i> True Lust</i><span>, usually directed by the Prince of Tempters...</span><i>Satan</i><span>!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">But flawed humans can screw up <i>The Devil's</i> best-laid perfidious plans!</div></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIWBhD-cqzLupzx2Dbt61EzGy9AouJOvYqZeyYkmVQWZfO4x-ZugijY4mDD2QL4N98RtOemP1lDaN4CBn4VKL5DDrpX9kdfr-WHaPb8yREvUf1F7mS-GSRVTn6fIIdSsIUtik83_97gQIAJvTN2GbAtaV69ZMZZNiDJoaWaIQffsFj_oO3mBI_bCATGk/s1600/WeirdTerror11-06.jpg" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Written by Ken Fitch and illustrated by Don Heck, this pitch-perfect story from <b><i>Comic Media's</i> Weird Terror</b> #11 (1954) was re-created with <i>new </i>art (but <i>almost exactly</i> the <i>same</i> script) in <b><i>Eerie Publications'</i> Tales of Voodoo</b> V5N3 (1972) by illustrator Oscar Fraga!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizRYtrXzV01M0XhCRntXT7ZPpbWNJxvFsRD33jVmM5IYleO2pUtoRHK0jM9LuGLaCcDkvxZP-FuQAZCXfeJZsK0ppjMS5XoC22BDVkORAFgFBGMtWmYQuixiIKS6PaNHa9eR1RtX71ecW7AoO3PaAmXHZSqDdYL7slk90RGw-h9wo1kR7JCd_Y2gbQxNE" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Next Week</span></div><span style="color: #e69138;"><div style="text-align: center;">We Prove Love Can be <i>Scary</i> in Our Annual <i>Halloween HeartBreak</i> Blogathon!</div></span><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;">You'll Cry your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</div></span></span><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-25393673430264219472026-09-23T07:00:00.000-04:002026-09-23T07:00:00.116-04:00Amorous Education MEET MISS PEPPER "My Dearest..."<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash"; font-size: xx-large;">Not <i>every</i> romance comic story set in school involved student/student or even student/teacher "interaction"</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8TG-TzmBkl9gfhvtPVZBeXSs99dUC14YeJysNL-ogFJB-4VV9YqdGGrPRq6Ndbm_n0XqkPM8Hd_6Dn_6AxSr_yuglm7VtXJsKLcEO9eqQH3CfndhpdBQmq6MXEceFNFLRZXVrTCfV5MrApF3MLcCMOnob3n9I7V2cQeB28os4y3VclvQ5Ju2NoO-ao70=s1600" /></a></div><p></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Written and illustrated by Joe Kubert and Bob Bean (nobody's certain as to who did what on which page or even panel), this never-reprinted story from <b><i>St john's </i>Meet Miss Pepper</b> (1954) was ripped-off...I mean derived...from the then-popular <i><b>CBS</b></i> radio and TV series <b>Our Miss Brooks</b>!</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Note:</i></b> In the 1950s, it wasn't unusual for a series to begin as a radio show, then carry over to the then-new medium of television, sometimes running in both formats <i>simultaneously</i> as <i>this</i> series did!<br />It was popular enough to warrant a b-movie with the tv show cast (done as the series ended it's run) which tied up the show's plotlines ending with <i>Miss Brooks</i> and <i>Mr Boynton</i> engaged!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85QWLX6yXoWeSnkc7TiNGEU61S08_wbZkqMyH2W10_Cu0rx_ibvECAM7BLyzq0Ilp_dCHQ9aWoiTqcmz8qg8tZGnIAcwBzbue06FrZO0CR72x7LhkPV-sMVnG49ZTm-4wf7Cr3w79IgA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85QWLX6yXoWeSnkc7TiNGEU61S08_wbZkqMyH2W10_Cu0rx_ibvECAM7BLyzq0Ilp_dCHQ9aWoiTqcmz8qg8tZGnIAcwBzbue06FrZO0CR72x7LhkPV-sMVnG49ZTm-4wf7Cr3w79IgA/s16000/OurMissBrooksMovie.jpg" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;">There <i>was</i> a one-shot <b>Our Miss Brooks</b> comic from <i><b>Dell</b></i> (the biggest producer of radio/movie/tv tie-in comics), but, for whatever reason, it didn't lead to an ongoing series!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PN2MrDgtQ0Yt6pGBTzvZW2BhEccJLFzG8cyae6c66ekTzKnSYEiSOYdNPjodmpVpd8HImGSZxM_iFAmShXZS8V1Qtsu6OZKsSCMWbmQXRdbN4rYBRHoWcKzZ4H4Ba00ugI_NPkWOfz0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PN2MrDgtQ0Yt6pGBTzvZW2BhEccJLFzG8cyae6c66ekTzKnSYEiSOYdNPjodmpVpd8HImGSZxM_iFAmShXZS8V1Qtsu6OZKsSCMWbmQXRdbN4rYBRHoWcKzZ4H4Ba00ugI_NPkWOfz0/s16000/4c0751-02.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you can see from this intro page to the <b>Our Miss Brooks</b> comic, <b>Miss Pepper</b> followed the format and characters of <b>Miss Brooks</b> almost to a "T", with one major exception...<i>Miss Brooks</i> chased after hunky teacher <i>Mr Boynton</i>, while <i>Miss Pepper</i> was chased by hunky teacher <i>Mr Phizz!</i><br />The comic played the romance humorously, much like other teen humor books.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Meet Miss Pepper</b> lasted only two, never-reprinted, issues, then <i>Miss Pepper</i> disappeared (except for occasional excerpts in history/reference books) forever from print.</span><br /></div></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Next Week:<br /><i>We Continue with Stories Combining School and Sex!</i><br /><span style="color: #ff00fe;">And Yes, You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span><br /><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNOta-3BkUuRv3WNAGxjs0FaIjoe7KtiXKKjHzNa4mzeV_rzyS2l_RmXJpSIyv15I0s5pgAIVzP310tawsHACyH4xLjyD58dUXmCDlQBlJjy2bC9jaZ9eFxVLWVn5NI_QdsgLBienjPk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNOta-3BkUuRv3WNAGxjs0FaIjoe7KtiXKKjHzNa4mzeV_rzyS2l_RmXJpSIyv15I0s5pgAIVzP310tawsHACyH4xLjyD58dUXmCDlQBlJjy2bC9jaZ9eFxVLWVn5NI_QdsgLBienjPk/w427-h640/61U8UsDPGML.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3lsz6Rc" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank"><span>Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane</span><br /><i><span>Volume 1: Super Crush</span></i></a><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Paid Link</span></b></div></div></div></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-35646372377062301992026-09-16T07:00:00.000-04:002026-09-16T10:40:18.746-04:00Amorous Education MY DATE COMICS "Unusual Dates as told to Jean Anne Marten: Story of Fran Pickett"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Though It Was, Technically, a <i>Teen Humor </i>Comic...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPmwgJoFtrIoO_hvndUXsJ-igJPr8lx4DaCbU_D7f5QxzgWj2pvR0-27rHwjxwgmfLiJLH677om1dxZIzi3XCwR3_-OP81OMcJMxfQG4myniONQVBgzqRC43ZIf_jeFaiOmgQWQdJYFXFeAw7HJ-Dl2tpZBbZPKLtAhsLM1U2RPqn8WjZj3VNJYGJl6pc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPmwgJoFtrIoO_hvndUXsJ-igJPr8lx4DaCbU_D7f5QxzgWj2pvR0-27rHwjxwgmfLiJLH677om1dxZIzi3XCwR3_-OP81OMcJMxfQG4myniONQVBgzqRC43ZIf_jeFaiOmgQWQdJYFXFeAw7HJ-Dl2tpZBbZPKLtAhsLM1U2RPqn8WjZj3VNJYGJl6pc=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>...</span><b><i>Hillman's</i> My Date</b><span> was sort of a lead-in to the first </span><i>serious</i><span> romance comics </span><b>Young Romance</b><span> and </span><b>Young Love</b><span>!</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGYv9dCmy5Az5kIp2cZblBpKZ6ugkvZWOzestBPUsiR8FZhF-xW7dIfT7MGQCqKK-R1pUXlbfkfyuue_ER4jORQkcRyG2V_DSNrlFkjhKq4ettrNwDOap3Nt_lbVl38zARnCXLDAmSjA3IZZ59Elry7GWrevrmf96CJK53IrjFiigZH4F5YjXFcaMzcXU=s1600" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Conceived and produced as a competitor to the escapades of </span><b><i>Archie</i></b><span> and the hormonally-driven Riverdale crowd, </span><b>My Date</b><span> featured a </span><i>lot</i><span> of work by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, though they were still assembling their </span><b><i>Simon & Kirby Studio</i></b><span> at that point.</span><br /><span>Unlike </span><b>Young Romance</b><span> and </span><b>Young Love</b><span>, which the </span><b><i>S&K Studio</i></b><span> "packaged" (editing/scripting/art/pre-press production) for </span><i><b>Prize Comics</b></i><span>, and began a couple of months after </span><b>My Date</b><span> hit the stands, their work on </span><b>My Date</b><span> was edited by one of </span><i><b>Hillman Comics'</b></i><span> in-house staff, Ed Cronin.</span><br /><span>But, it's believed that they felt comics were ready for a more serious book about romance, similar to the numerous pulp and slick-stock prose magazines of the era popular with teen-age and young adult women, resulting in Young Romance, which was also young adult-oriented!</span><br /><span>This particular story, part of the anthology feature </span><i><b>My Date</b></i><span>, supposedly-about readers' letters adapted into graphic form, which ran through all four issues of the series, was illustrated by Dan Barry, a journeyman who later freelanced for a lot of different publishers before moving over to steady work on syndicated newspaper strips.</span><br /><span>The writer is, sadly, unknown.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><i>Next Week:<br /></i><span><span style="color: red;">We'll Present Another Amorous Education Adventure!</span></span><span><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span>You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></span></span></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>And now a word from our sponsor..</b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Visit </b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Amazon</b></span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> and Buy...</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RzRa3mROL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="341" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RzRa3mROL.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2GTLlos" target="_blank">Love on the Racks</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2GTLlos" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">A History of American Romance Comics</span></a><br />Paid Link</b></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-77519869326882724152026-09-09T07:00:00.000-04:002026-09-09T10:18:28.622-04:00Amorous Education CO-ED ROMANCES "Education for Love"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Cupid returns to the classroom...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8AyyBJa3eHtcsjDRGQNj6KyfufhT7W2NuOpmNv13fEWLUov8JM_Z18wsAr3cP7Mc2xoUv4OF47k3jiXaEK3QhC980v3m4K2O6Wi_2prgsLjgz3Tug_6xU4PaWf07c_CCIWRs4L13pq8/s805/CoEd1-27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8AyyBJa3eHtcsjDRGQNj6KyfufhT7W2NuOpmNv13fEWLUov8JM_Z18wsAr3cP7Mc2xoUv4OF47k3jiXaEK3QhC980v3m4K2O6Wi_2prgsLjgz3Tug_6xU4PaWf07c_CCIWRs4L13pq8/s16000/CoEd1-27.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...as we spend the rest of September with hormonally-driven college and high school students!</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hbqZ_ZiwWbuME6fKt7ZyyseQUsg_ZePyQywjlGeKvlpH7Jb1FYGZy1ZgUM4tnCDkgo6gGHWGolCKr2gEzkUVCjMR3uUggrgoOIQo9ufQMAvp5kPp_sjddzkN5hhwE3tBS7T8AKru6oA/s810/CoEd1-28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaeOQvQrPx5_Y7Yt5mC7f1C1sJninBzTclLqHF0cRR0QL9W8JEugJfMn_0lkeVoqfmMdooOdhhYkUoZQSeCx1QpaHfl3BQg2iltLdxd8cKGlI3E2bLETcoBxHv1leK5gK9BeJX9OqOac/s800/CoEd1-34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaeOQvQrPx5_Y7Yt5mC7f1C1sJninBzTclLqHF0cRR0QL9W8JEugJfMn_0lkeVoqfmMdooOdhhYkUoZQSeCx1QpaHfl3BQg2iltLdxd8cKGlI3E2bLETcoBxHv1leK5gK9BeJX9OqOac/s16000/CoEd1-34.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Art by Al Camy.<br />The writer is unknown.<br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">PL's </i><b>Co-Ed Romances</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (and its' "sister book" <b>Love Life</b><b>)</b> only had a <i>single issue each</i> in 1951.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>PL Publishing</i></b> is noted as the <i>only</i> comics company with more than a single title to last <i>only</i> 6 months before going belly-up!<br />They published eight books, ranging from romance to sci-fi to Western to crime to jungle heroine to horror!<br />None ran more than three issues.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Next Week:</span></div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><i>We Continue with Stories Combining School and Sex!</i><br /><span style="color: #ff00fe;">And Yes, You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span><br /><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNOta-3BkUuRv3WNAGxjs0FaIjoe7KtiXKKjHzNa4mzeV_rzyS2l_RmXJpSIyv15I0s5pgAIVzP310tawsHACyH4xLjyD58dUXmCDlQBlJjy2bC9jaZ9eFxVLWVn5NI_QdsgLBienjPk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNOta-3BkUuRv3WNAGxjs0FaIjoe7KtiXKKjHzNa4mzeV_rzyS2l_RmXJpSIyv15I0s5pgAIVzP310tawsHACyH4xLjyD58dUXmCDlQBlJjy2bC9jaZ9eFxVLWVn5NI_QdsgLBienjPk/w427-h640/61U8UsDPGML.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3lsz6Rc" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank"><span>Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane</span><br /><i><span>Volume 1: Super Crush</span></i></a><br />Paid Link</b></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-76411148573326567672026-09-02T07:00:00.000-04:002026-09-02T07:00:00.113-04:00It's the Season for Lovin' ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "September Squall"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now that it's September...</span><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qQZvqgZXECMPjAvGoeOMo5xepj4cPVk0slsXd3BqeOg0Qwu-mUj3cFSgXaLRmvg6tqeUgL0ObfHU3CfOjExvcFVPqFmRNE3jRKoRpFQPwTEjR0froone3a7huE1cmO3r6xnws1LNNLs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qQZvqgZXECMPjAvGoeOMo5xepj4cPVk0slsXd3BqeOg0Qwu-mUj3cFSgXaLRmvg6tqeUgL0ObfHU3CfOjExvcFVPqFmRNE3jRKoRpFQPwTEjR0froone3a7huE1cmO3r6xnws1LNNLs/w443-h640/292846.jpg" width="443" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span>...let's tell a seasonally-appropriate, <i>never-reprinted</i>, cover-featured story </span></span><span style="text-align: center;">that </span><i style="text-align: center;">really</i><span style="text-align: center;"> fits the concept of a "beach read'!</span></div></span></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFduJDh_I/AAAAAAAABu8/VDWB1JAwjHY/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200003and04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFduJDh_I/AAAAAAAABu8/VDWB1JAwjHY/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200003and04.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFjyKDCGI/AAAAAAAABvA/e2nyx4_16n8/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200005and06.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFjyKDCGI/AAAAAAAABvA/e2nyx4_16n8/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200005and06.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFO7qLyfI/AAAAAAAABvE/YRKpvx7ECY0/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFO7qLyfI/AAAAAAAABvE/YRKpvx7ECY0/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200007.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFoxbYLlI/AAAAAAAABvI/DKAgZDGmI0Y/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFoxbYLlI/AAAAAAAABvI/DKAgZDGmI0Y/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200008.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFy7bQPpI/AAAAAAAABvQ/N9qfsd8ApaQ/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFFy7bQPpI/AAAAAAAABvQ/N9qfsd8ApaQ/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200009.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFF4kNBcyI/AAAAAAAABvU/Fhirat9UEi8/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GRZlC2xsDsA/TdFF4kNBcyI/AAAAAAAABvU/Fhirat9UEi8/s0/AdventuresInRomance01p%200010.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgm1QkhJ7m45nB2gMZPG_dpV4PK9Xsn-BEr6JEkkL77Wj23m5nvlKhf0TZhiqILKQlQKNaJB2TRfThkOqiEM-H4anerjsn0pJtdjHZKH3y6n10Jquq11NYJacJZJALIkVbhuXTrjZ9aT8hyI-qsFa5e19HhcmobxnQtsC5OIXfeRLC55fYp4UKJQVcpPTA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgm1QkhJ7m45nB2gMZPG_dpV4PK9Xsn-BEr6JEkkL77Wj23m5nvlKhf0TZhiqILKQlQKNaJB2TRfThkOqiEM-H4anerjsn0pJtdjHZKH3y6n10Jquq11NYJacJZJALIkVbhuXTrjZ9aT8hyI-qsFa5e19HhcmobxnQtsC5OIXfeRLC55fYp4UKJQVcpPTA=s1600" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The painted cover art (by the story's artist, Warren King) was based on the final panel.<br />While other comics publishers used painted covers on their romance comics, most of those were re-used pulp or paperback paintings which were unrelated to the interior stories!<br />You've likely noted a couple of two-page spreads at the beginning of the story and at the conclusion.<br /><b><i>St John's</i> Adventures in Romance</b><span> #1 (1949), experimented with doing double-page spreads in each story to establish a distinctive "look".<br /></span>Sadly, the series only lasted two issues. ;-(<br /><span>Artist Warren King spent several years in comic books doing everything from superheroes to horror to romance, before moving into newspaper cartooning, becoming the in-house editorial cartoonist at the </span><b>NY Daily News</b><span> and winning the </span><b>National Cartoonists Society</b><span> </span><b><i>Best Editorial Cartoonist Award</i></b><span> in 1968.<br /></span>He passed away in 1978.</span></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Next week:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)</span></b><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And now a word from out sponsor..</i></span></b><br /><span><span style="color: red; 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font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/07/tales-twice-told-secret-hearts-what.html" target="_blank">Yesterday, We Presented a Story from the '60s...</a></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgXhSGNkdWRjSLb9jg10JasJEfVPZjHE4Lf4fraeTq8MkLavpcWdgvsw5Pw3_xJMqUKMirD80j6_HZXpAxN8jVE_llr8E0beMQnPB8w63_Q9raIvtWre1Yh5i3NbFcXGMeCfdqKMYSQ99vvhCJHU_tyyFaK6VPtyzbqbxYygG8JUFOGGV6nFNJPVjEnNE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgXhSGNkdWRjSLb9jg10JasJEfVPZjHE4Lf4fraeTq8MkLavpcWdgvsw5Pw3_xJMqUKMirD80j6_HZXpAxN8jVE_llr8E0beMQnPB8w63_Q9raIvtWre1Yh5i3NbFcXGMeCfdqKMYSQ99vvhCJHU_tyyFaK6VPtyzbqbxYygG8JUFOGGV6nFNJPVjEnNE=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">...that featured modified clothing and hairstyles as usual when it was reprinted a half-decade later!</div><div style="text-align: center;">But, it also had a <i>radical</i> modification not present in most of those reprints...</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbE31B6ZayiiKQdjr3At2A4XJg0FUbXyE2W371Z47WBlvv6gFPeEAtTRCq0KgFfZ3XfhDcU-EOWnNPfmAO6fFP53_QARWaWxKp7_e-W7JzHK9n_4WeHOALeLrIA69dVonTCu7e5MMYyLYiScY0a-0VyecWvP-pYHxTN8eVjRQgOkfGNcftVL3kxf0y7O0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbE31B6ZayiiKQdjr3At2A4XJg0FUbXyE2W371Z47WBlvv6gFPeEAtTRCq0KgFfZ3XfhDcU-EOWnNPfmAO6fFP53_QARWaWxKp7_e-W7JzHK9n_4WeHOALeLrIA69dVonTCu7e5MMYyLYiScY0a-0VyecWvP-pYHxTN8eVjRQgOkfGNcftVL3kxf0y7O0=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Why did Editor Dorothy Woolfolk drop four pages from this story when it was "updated" for <b><i>DC's</i> Girls' Love Stories</b> #162 (1971)<br /><div style="text-align: left;">It wasn't for space reasons, as there were <i>lots</i> of other reprintable stories that would've fitted into the allocated pages <i>without</i> extensive re-editing!<br />We'll never know the answer...</div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">We Don't Yet Know What We'll Present Next Week!<br />But We <i>Can </i>Guarantee...<br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span><br /><b style="font-size: large;">And now a word from our sponsor...<br /></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span><b>Support </b></span></span><b><span style="color: magenta;">True Love Comics Tales!<br /></span></b><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><b>Paid Link</b></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-4134334237787986722026-08-26T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-26T07:00:00.119-04:00Tales Twice Told SECRET HEARTS "What About Some Love for Me?"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">How many of us have been treated like doormats by our "friends"...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRJ137A647XrD7X4zVpXsb7GisuACYbdLaC0eAfp_3T1OOU6pzsgO7wcZNhZ5S3YnFstjubaKeFGkTvbNHvZrm1Ma_R-DDo6v8nPhq1vBZ7xXxI_Fl5YIaknfn8BkABJ8nd31Ch8_hwo/s1600/SecretHearts109-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRJ137A647XrD7X4zVpXsb7GisuACYbdLaC0eAfp_3T1OOU6pzsgO7wcZNhZ5S3YnFstjubaKeFGkTvbNHvZrm1Ma_R-DDo6v8nPhq1vBZ7xXxI_Fl5YIaknfn8BkABJ8nd31Ch8_hwo/s1600/SecretHearts109-01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...even to the point where we'd actually <i>help them steal</i> the one we love?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll bet a lot of readers can identify with <i>Katie.</i>..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Dd_hsUBfKFithe0PfTgG_FbXALeAZ9zVdiOrIGxM9cTEOG3NV67ZMRpQEbTfFTd0VoGxQEKMhCiFjsXY_jXPlXz_3_Zk6LlpXjF2HasNyFP-lxfU4CMr3PojUAF1h2Rk589fRrmMZfg/s1600/SecretHearts109-34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Dd_hsUBfKFithe0PfTgG_FbXALeAZ9zVdiOrIGxM9cTEOG3NV67ZMRpQEbTfFTd0VoGxQEKMhCiFjsXY_jXPlXz_3_Zk6LlpXjF2HasNyFP-lxfU4CMr3PojUAF1h2Rk589fRrmMZfg/s1600/SecretHearts109-34.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don't know how <i>Jane</i> reacted to this turn of events...<i>nor do we care!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This cover-featured tale from <b><i>DC's</i> Secret Hearts </b>#109 (1966) was penciled by John Romita, inked by Bernard Sachs with several panels redrawn by Mike Sekowsky.</span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;">(Romita had just gone over to </span><i style="font-size: large;"><b>Marvel</b></i><span style="font-size: medium;"> to take over as the artist on </span><b style="font-size: large;">Daredevil,</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> and shortly thereafter, </span><b style="font-size: large;">Spider-Man</b><span style="font-size: medium;">!)</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Like many other stories of the era, it was reprinted with updated fashions and hairstyles!</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">But, </span><i style="font-size: large;">unlike</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> most of those stories, when it was reprinted, it was also heavily-reedited and rewritten, with </span><i style="font-size: large;">almost half the pages</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> cut!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">See <i>that</i> version...tomorrow!<br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span><br /><b style="font-size: large;">And now a word from our sponsor...</b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta;">True Love Comics Tales!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><b>Paid Link</b></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-33230715655298142942026-08-19T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-19T07:00:00.109-04:00It's the Season for Lovin' SECRETS OF YOUNG BRIDES "Can This Be Love?"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Though It's the Middle of August, Let's Take One Last Summer Fling...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LvHXfcJpAo4/T9RV6tYQgeI/AAAAAAAAL3A/TWGHSKJgksE/s0/soyb03-02.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LvHXfcJpAo4/T9RV6tYQgeI/AAAAAAAAL3A/TWGHSKJgksE/s1600/soyb03-02.JPG" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">...with a '70s tale from <b><i>Charlton's</i> Secrets of Young Brides</b> #3 (1975)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8zOdGLGHgh0/T9RV6dj4T5I/AAAAAAAAL28/dLgn2K8-HgU/s0/soyb03-03.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8zOdGLGHgh0/T9RV6dj4T5I/AAAAAAAAL28/dLgn2K8-HgU/s1600/soyb03-03.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GISWjSVfYY/T9RWF9x2t0I/AAAAAAAAL3E/DL1qOf66a0I/s0/soyb03-04.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GISWjSVfYY/T9RWF9x2t0I/AAAAAAAAL3E/DL1qOf66a0I/s1600/soyb03-04.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1L7HKYN5tRs/T9RWCAgHKGI/AAAAAAAAL3I/WBhvbEgmVCQ/s0/soyb03-05.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1L7HKYN5tRs/T9RWCAgHKGI/AAAAAAAAL3I/WBhvbEgmVCQ/s1600/soyb03-05.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jI9EKR3J3fw/T9RWGGa1reI/AAAAAAAAL3M/kZVGUke9LjQ/s0/soyb03-06.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jI9EKR3J3fw/T9RWGGa1reI/AAAAAAAAL3M/kZVGUke9LjQ/s1600/soyb03-06.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6TgaGlRRZSY/T9RWNeqqmuI/AAAAAAAAL3Q/7H5JD1stTcc/s0/soyb03-07.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6TgaGlRRZSY/T9RWNeqqmuI/AAAAAAAAL3Q/7H5JD1stTcc/s1600/soyb03-07.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZRvv38sU98/T9RWQqinn_I/AAAAAAAAL3Y/4zgyRJRBdtI/s0/soyb03-08.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZRvv38sU98/T9RWQqinn_I/AAAAAAAAL3Y/4zgyRJRBdtI/s1600/soyb03-08.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ljEQuCh0LLE/T9RWQw1MptI/AAAAAAAAL3U/y94f-jP5aaI/s0/soyb03-09.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ljEQuCh0LLE/T9RWQw1MptI/AAAAAAAAL3U/y94f-jP5aaI/s1600/soyb03-09.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Man, dig those crazy fashions and hairstyles!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Illustrated by <span class="credit_value">the talented Enrique Nieto (who did <i>only</i> romance, horror, or gothic romance tales)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Next week:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">We haven't yet decided what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...</span></i></div><div style="color: magenta; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And now a word from our sponsor...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta;">True Love Comics Tales!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and/or</b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2bfv26U" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpY1FRaaBwXDu59tcxbv8ZUehm-oSPSvTSciN9MdRry3b3HdfugtaK2QLbl4GhURvKtw6Cx7aqBKEqiYca68Qdcw5NASZHdwxriBBd_fuRmtQvdwwAhjecY5eXSjWTUuT3icCuL3V97c1Cj5ZmBSWxGti9XPkvt9b0YVoKHb6F4k809Tgt-F5Eu4freE8=s1600" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">...we thought we'd provide some reference about campus life that </span><i style="font-size: large;">couldn't</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> be reprinted until more than a half-century after its' appearance in </span><b style="font-size: large;"><i>Harvey's</i> First Love Illustrated</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> #13 (1951)!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLSm4G9XS1gVM8VDq_8W67QnbsuedLhl4_3FEAkQ5dI0ZoIGcJoboKDhrKdituFDYxb6z37HcbHtzUcuLze_ThRV_nxqEsXa-OkvtBwWNsxq9u4_dKJsRfGXXoNfxyJeDtab_Us85AijubLgF5p9MrLDb4FBJ4I5y5CGOKmUV5f5Va7b4t5QzcbE_0ZX0" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyRIcI3Wot5hsxDGZN9UDlscQRcKbZT5DcGh53MUULxKsY0Jr0CIfmCEhbEpomHld1ivxYKd_bDbV7RdPVwnUu7Y8etkJpNE2Gj6F8LMub4BNbzoj2ygIfweMvX0mZzBAktti3wncn_mFVm_3HSp-MWk7Q_0g7SG_j8vms-m5huDJoZTxUha-evCyNw7g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyRIcI3Wot5hsxDGZN9UDlscQRcKbZT5DcGh53MUULxKsY0Jr0CIfmCEhbEpomHld1ivxYKd_bDbV7RdPVwnUu7Y8etkJpNE2Gj6F8LMub4BNbzoj2ygIfweMvX0mZzBAktti3wncn_mFVm_3HSp-MWk7Q_0g7SG_j8vms-m5huDJoZTxUha-evCyNw7g=s1600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJDe_myFyOQkG9qdixGXKvNTFeOvRP-bp7Ij8RsLzedo6InLdptXIhU7V5HLdNWgwtYl5x7IfQ9d38aMKNLf6UlzuRMHkvTeeJ7e4QoDWokF1GkosLbn9TnpQ7uBzazvBdBvHbmq_-pprkvsJnhsY5lzLFc7zCws2hC3nnqWRBwBHodhB2wdDEgiWSZYc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJDe_myFyOQkG9qdixGXKvNTFeOvRP-bp7Ij8RsLzedo6InLdptXIhU7V5HLdNWgwtYl5x7IfQ9d38aMKNLf6UlzuRMHkvTeeJ7e4QoDWokF1GkosLbn9TnpQ7uBzazvBdBvHbmq_-pprkvsJnhsY5lzLFc7zCws2hC3nnqWRBwBHodhB2wdDEgiWSZYc=s1600" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Though </span><i><b>Harvey</b></i><span> had heavily-modified </span><i>other</i><span> romance comics stories when they were reprinted after the </span><b><i>Comics Code Authority</i></b><span> began regulating content in 1954 (as we showed </span><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2021/12/hi-school-romance-too-young.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><span> and </span><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2021/12/hi-school-romance-too-young-20.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a><span>), this one was apparently </span><i>so</i><span> controversial, that </span><i>no</i><span> amount of changes could make it acceptible to the </span><i><b>Code</b></i><span> administrators, so it remained hidden from the reading public until 2016, when, with the repressive </span><i><b>Code</b></i><span> finally defunct, it </span><i>could</i><span> be reprinted!</span><br /><span><span>BTW, if it looks familiar to long-time readers, that's because we ran the b/w original art for the complete story a couple of years ago </span><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2024/11/amorous-education-first-love.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><span>!</span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>We Don't Yet Know What We'll Re-Present!</span><br /><span>But, We Guarantee That...</span><br /><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>And Now a Word From Our Sponsor (who happens to be us!)</b></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span><br /><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjD7yXGzf_ReHUtJejUUW8NDJYhqHA6i4RfKmNZ-LancRTC6mi1xGD6XQC2W0pkfvCxJazWg5YeeiCnPZmJRQgL3zjJ1UDMv-psM9Ept9TgDlTa4DfCZNtSCh0fS9qX6rNNSlbhZphDzedTA10y69ey_tKcrAM4B6lfMmwgLi4tiY1JPFAefu_T6QY5tc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="455" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjD7yXGzf_ReHUtJejUUW8NDJYhqHA6i4RfKmNZ-LancRTC6mi1xGD6XQC2W0pkfvCxJazWg5YeeiCnPZmJRQgL3zjJ1UDMv-psM9Ept9TgDlTa4DfCZNtSCh0fS9qX6rNNSlbhZphDzedTA10y69ey_tKcrAM4B6lfMmwgLi4tiY1JPFAefu_T6QY5tc=w485-h640" width="485" /></a></div></i></span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/4xCywnu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Weird Love Volume 3<br />I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!</a></b></span><br /><i><b>Paid Link</b></i></div></div><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-89461266583253600232026-08-07T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T12:52:42.187-04:00Beach Read KISS OF DEATH "Chapter Four: Mystery of the Locket"<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/08/beach-read-kiss-of-death-chapter-three.html" target="_blank">We Have Already Seen<span>...</span></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><i>Anne Mason</i> lying in a coffin after being attacked by strange beings...</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xs5mBL73FUk/TmknwW3xkZI/AAAAAAAAEDg/9IyE3Utg1Vs/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xs5mBL73FUk/TmknwW3xkZI/AAAAAAAAEDg/9IyE3Utg1Vs/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003037.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...and now, the astounding conclusion to this tale from <i><b>DC's</b></i> <b>Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love</b> #3 by Jack Oleck and Don Heck!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeFFiBWXR2Q/Tmkn0PE9nyI/AAAAAAAAEDk/tFLF39d8GFo/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeFFiBWXR2Q/Tmkn0PE9nyI/AAAAAAAAEDk/tFLF39d8GFo/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003038.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kBERWBCwZk/Tmkn2yAV0NI/AAAAAAAAEDo/2vfmtPrgNoQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kBERWBCwZk/Tmkn2yAV0NI/AAAAAAAAEDo/2vfmtPrgNoQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003039.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zjq7FuSNvg/Tmkn46DYqyI/AAAAAAAAEDs/mrltn9ymp8U/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zjq7FuSNvg/Tmkn46DYqyI/AAAAAAAAEDs/mrltn9ymp8U/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003040.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0crn3EtWUrk/Tmkn8-ykiBI/AAAAAAAAEDw/fWrEuRPAGNk/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003041.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0crn3EtWUrk/Tmkn8-ykiBI/AAAAAAAAEDw/fWrEuRPAGNk/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003041.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KXhNA-XI8Qc/Tmkn_j0D0KI/AAAAAAAAED0/y80x-0B456c/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003042.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KXhNA-XI8Qc/Tmkn_j0D0KI/AAAAAAAAED0/y80x-0B456c/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003042.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_TdcA07mdCc/Tmkn_clauJI/AAAAAAAAED4/oFXQTUVKamo/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003043.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_TdcA07mdCc/Tmkn_clauJI/AAAAAAAAED4/oFXQTUVKamo/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003043.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7QWbx1a6P0/TmkoOezkmeI/AAAAAAAAED8/mlqi6xjVw28/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003045.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7QWbx1a6P0/TmkoOezkmeI/AAAAAAAAED8/mlqi6xjVw28/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003045.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NiMPrICTO4s/TmkoOqv1SRI/AAAAAAAAEEA/HR08DzAYFto/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003046.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NiMPrICTO4s/TmkoOqv1SRI/AAAAAAAAEEA/HR08DzAYFto/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003046.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VQXtAjnzmzs/TmkoPdBHfpI/AAAAAAAAEEE/zkA4tYn3Ji0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003047.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VQXtAjnzmzs/TmkoPdBHfpI/AAAAAAAAEEE/zkA4tYn3Ji0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003047.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Ah, a <i>happy</i> ending...</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But <i>not</i> for Gothic Romances in comic book form!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This title, <i><b>DC Comics'</b></i> <b>Dark Mansions of Forbidden Love</b>, only lasted four issues before becoming <b>Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion</b>, a standard horror comic that ran ten more issues.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Its sister title, <span class="credit_value"><b>Sinister House of Secret Love</b> suffered a similar fate, turning into <b>Secrets of Sinister House</b>, also after four issues.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="credit_value" style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Marvel Comics'</b></i> attempt at a similar title was <i>not</i> a comic, but a b/w magazine with prose stories and spot illustrations called <b>Gothic Tales of Love</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="credit_value" style="font-size: medium;">It died after three issues.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="credit_value"><i><b>Charlton Comics'</b></i> <b>Haunted Love</b> was the second-longest running series with ten titanic issues of weird love. </span><br /><span class="credit_value">We've presented a couple of stories from it <a href="http://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2011/06/haunted-love-reunion.html"><b>HERE</b></a> and <a href="http://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2011/10/haunted-love-death-waits-for-moonrise.html"><b>HERE</b></a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="credit_value" style="font-size: medium;">But <i>the</i> longest-lasting gothic romance comic book was based on a daytime tv soap opera...<b><i>Gold Key's</i> Dark Shadows</b>, which ran <i>thirty-five</i> issues and lasted <i>four years longer</i> than the TV show!<br />Then, in 1991, <i><b>Innovation Comics</b></i> did three mini-series (one cancelled after only a single issue) based on the short-lived primetime revival of the show, adding nine issues to the count.<br />Finally, in 2011, <b><i>Dynamite Entertainment</i></b> resurrected (as it were) the original TV show with a <i>twenty-three</i> issue run as well as a five-issue crossover mini-series with <i><b>Vampirella</b></i>!<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><div>Next Week: Well, We're Not Sure What We'll Present...Yet!</div><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><div>But, You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</div></span></span><div style="font-size: medium;"><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;"><div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span></b></div></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Buy..</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: medium;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div></div></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-55284580772881132932026-08-06T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T12:52:51.094-04:00Beach Read KISS OF DEATH Chapter Three: The Body in the Coffin<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/08/beach-read-kiss-of-death-chapter-two.html" target="_blank">We Have Already Seen</a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><i>Anne Mason</i> attacked by a caped figure who might be a vampire, and now...</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ol9OkMP8g9c/TmknRCBMtBI/AAAAAAAAEDA/DeMDot1p3b0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ol9OkMP8g9c/TmknRCBMtBI/AAAAAAAAEDA/DeMDot1p3b0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003028.jpg" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is the caped figure a <i>vampire</i>?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why did the wolf (or <i>werewolf</i>) attack <i>Anne</i>?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What other as-yet undiscovered secrets lurk in Castle Dravko?</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aoxA5lAQw_w/TmknU2tXHsI/AAAAAAAAEDE/Boni9FhtsA0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003029.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aoxA5lAQw_w/TmknU2tXHsI/AAAAAAAAEDE/Boni9FhtsA0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003029.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-68-eyGpBcRg/TmknSFDBfiI/AAAAAAAAEDI/YKGY5ZdUveE/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-68-eyGpBcRg/TmknSFDBfiI/AAAAAAAAEDI/YKGY5ZdUveE/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003030.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kZjuUokfVRs/TmknYk_jdyI/AAAAAAAAEDM/DbT4s4qQsLg/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kZjuUokfVRs/TmknYk_jdyI/AAAAAAAAEDM/DbT4s4qQsLg/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003031.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0d9Gpre4Rk/TmknYyRmfKI/AAAAAAAAEDQ/6HonmomovRc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0d9Gpre4Rk/TmknYyRmfKI/AAAAAAAAEDQ/6HonmomovRc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003032.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qQgK9zFRNfo/Tmknr975NjI/AAAAAAAAEDU/EpwsV0IGtJg/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003034.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qQgK9zFRNfo/Tmknr975NjI/AAAAAAAAEDU/EpwsV0IGtJg/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003034.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pr2muYpdkZM/TmkntkbiRNI/AAAAAAAAEDY/3r3VyjUc3JQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pr2muYpdkZM/TmkntkbiRNI/AAAAAAAAEDY/3r3VyjUc3JQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003035.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pbZVdn-rfwQ/TmknsZ3AaKI/AAAAAAAAEDc/lIIXKZ5mIu0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003036.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pbZVdn-rfwQ/TmknsZ3AaKI/AAAAAAAAEDc/lIIXKZ5mIu0/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003036.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: large;">..or is she...<i>undead</i>?</span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Be here tomorrow for the astounding conclusion...</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Mystery of the Locket!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Berkshire Swash;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span><br /></span></i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span></b></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Buy..</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-22923405636402654052026-08-05T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T12:53:00.157-04:00Beach Read KISS OF DEATH Chapter Two: The Secret of Baron Dravko!<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/08/beach-read-kiss-of-death-chapter-one-it.html" target="_blank">We have already seen<span>...</span></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><i>Something</i> stalks <i>Anne Mason</i> through the somber halls of Castle Dravko...</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2_hUusa2jKk/TmkmjPrLutI/AAAAAAAAECg/ViYccx2TykQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2_hUusa2jKk/TmkmjPrLutI/AAAAAAAAECg/ViYccx2TykQ/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003017.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...but, what?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-58xB7zQxDjs/Tmkmj3AoEyI/AAAAAAAAECk/6jjvNXmKJUk/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-58xB7zQxDjs/Tmkmj3AoEyI/AAAAAAAAECk/6jjvNXmKJUk/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003018.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T-J9cieccxg/TmkmrepxoRI/AAAAAAAAECo/oCv-lVYujNc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T-J9cieccxg/TmkmrepxoRI/AAAAAAAAECo/oCv-lVYujNc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003019.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-deqVfNPtmx4/Tmkms14oXYI/AAAAAAAAECs/CO08QIhf17w/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-deqVfNPtmx4/Tmkms14oXYI/AAAAAAAAECs/CO08QIhf17w/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003021.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij82z_OJ2eI/TmkmyZq6djI/AAAAAAAAECw/Wk6YQ__hPLw/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij82z_OJ2eI/TmkmyZq6djI/AAAAAAAAECw/Wk6YQ__hPLw/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003022.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ulp5dRH9dmo/Tmkm0oQWeNI/AAAAAAAAEC0/TV3U3Ok8_-4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ulp5dRH9dmo/Tmkm0oQWeNI/AAAAAAAAEC0/TV3U3Ok8_-4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003023.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1yLX5zUjdnw/Tmkm1XoaVhI/AAAAAAAAEC4/A7pkXfukXCY/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1yLX5zUjdnw/Tmkm1XoaVhI/AAAAAAAAEC4/A7pkXfukXCY/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003024.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0x6UKBHVKU/Tmkm8Xm7eQI/AAAAAAAAEC8/9pi461RbJV4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0x6UKBHVKU/Tmkm8Xm7eQI/AAAAAAAAEC8/9pi461RbJV4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003025.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><i>Werewolf?</i></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><div>There, wolf!</div></span><div><i style="font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Be here tomorrow for...</span></i></div><span><div style="font-family: "Berkshire Swash"; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: red;">The Body in the Coffin!</span></div><i><div><i style="font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span><br /></span></i><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div></i></span><div><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span></b></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Buy..</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-48988676460754948912026-08-04T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T12:53:15.219-04:00Beach Read KISS OF DEATH Chapter One: It Walks by Night!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Vampires!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><i>Werewolves!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">A stormy night!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><i>A spooky old castle!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">A beautiful woman in a nightgown!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8b9xj-atWE/Tmkl0VZSGxI/AAAAAAAAEEI/8A-CseljJiI/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8b9xj-atWE/Tmkl0VZSGxI/AAAAAAAAEEI/8A-CseljJiI/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's August!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perfect time for a "Beach Read" Gothic romance to chill your bones and cool your sweaty brow!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PWZP4UA4KCU/TmkmQ0RT2qI/AAAAAAAAECM/-aY-yIMg2mE/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PWZP4UA4KCU/TmkmQ0RT2qI/AAAAAAAAECM/-aY-yIMg2mE/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003012.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dBMwvmVzus/TmkmPTEMTFI/AAAAAAAAECQ/TIN49smrLt4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dBMwvmVzus/TmkmPTEMTFI/AAAAAAAAECQ/TIN49smrLt4/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003013.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o3n-N8FARUg/TmkmSNdfngI/AAAAAAAAECU/BvWHtkrTW2M/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o3n-N8FARUg/TmkmSNdfngI/AAAAAAAAECU/BvWHtkrTW2M/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003014.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gf7KwBjliYI/TmkmUdZlJzI/AAAAAAAAECY/mACXjdOudcc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gf7KwBjliYI/TmkmUdZlJzI/AAAAAAAAECY/mACXjdOudcc/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003015.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BX5ygvl7fHM/TmkmiWe45fI/AAAAAAAAECc/ZJiyjqq8_7s/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BX5ygvl7fHM/TmkmiWe45fI/AAAAAAAAECc/ZJiyjqq8_7s/s0/DARK%252520MANSION%25252003016.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Who (or what) is the "dark and ominous figure"?</span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash;">Vampire?</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash;">Werewolf?</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash;">What is the secret of the Baron's son?</span></div></span><div><i style="font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Be here tomorrow for...</span></i></div><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Secret of Baron Dravko!</span></div></span><div><i><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span><br /></span></i></div><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></i></div></b><div><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span></b></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Visit </b></i><b>Amazon</b><i><b> and Buy..</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiejrBNCi89ur6NVWKT706mfb8dxB1Ye1cSrsnVeQo6JlA7PwJyPIBazXLX6088XEbhb5G3t2NGlQc6HvcrrD4uDZNMliFGptHo7hDTlbNnuau_pvnQttvSxQwWTwNDYN58zpWHYOGKVI/s16000/gothic-tales-cover.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2LbKT2L" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Gothic Tales of Haunted Love</a></b></div></div><div><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></span></b></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-38328614127588239112026-08-03T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T12:53:24.550-04:00Your Next Kool Gothic Beach Read is Coming...<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Behind this kool Jeffrey Catherine Jones cover lurk...</span><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqS75vXYQy7A9oDpIrV1aaViCznMXJ5ZOjfaC-dtxZUWHsDe40g7QFe8SG43fqfoyHFgfEibvC8jKBunwCiTajOyFwn9doxZNdWCWWt8FjDZN41VGpkG6KvJ3icVLwPfc4Dmvx6idSu6gv-1KMoykfVRf1IQlx3jjNeq6pWswy_G7OYWVmn-b5x0q8Ido" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqS75vXYQy7A9oDpIrV1aaViCznMXJ5ZOjfaC-dtxZUWHsDe40g7QFe8SG43fqfoyHFgfEibvC8jKBunwCiTajOyFwn9doxZNdWCWWt8FjDZN41VGpkG6KvJ3icVLwPfc4Dmvx6idSu6gv-1KMoykfVRf1IQlx3jjNeq6pWswy_G7OYWVmn-b5x0q8Ido=s1600" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash"; font-size: x-large;">Vampires!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash";">Werewolves!</i></div><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><div style="text-align: center;">A stormy night!</div></span><i style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A spooky old castle!</i></div></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berkshire Swash";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A beautiful woman in a nightgown!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">This </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">never-reprinted</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> book-length tale from </span><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><i>DC's</i> Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love</b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> #3 (1972) begins </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">tomorrow</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">, and continues for the rest of the week, chilling your blood as you read it under an umbrella on a blanket or extra-large towel on a hot beach!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">(Don't forget an iced beverage!)</span></div></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">Note:</b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> if you think the cover above is eye-grabbing (which it </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">is</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">), here's the ink-and-wash </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">original art</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">...</span></div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwjkyu_zxyy4e_CYWevrm1EjH3OCKQv0VttKVBvV3-8J3V2ntSOfkdmTgoZanYpy9Tz8hYkzJNxNtr_59y176P_cM63Us4qV4jv3HsHY0aDXhkS6jlnCAaxY6DpoOYyrkCBmLgtTB9K67AAfY7cURseUuU910iSuL85yzUcznFwry-3LSdtMWUJtbrS3U" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwjkyu_zxyy4e_CYWevrm1EjH3OCKQv0VttKVBvV3-8J3V2ntSOfkdmTgoZanYpy9Tz8hYkzJNxNtr_59y176P_cM63Us4qV4jv3HsHY0aDXhkS6jlnCAaxY6DpoOYyrkCBmLgtTB9K67AAfY7cURseUuU910iSuL85yzUcznFwry-3LSdtMWUJtbrS3U=s1600" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...which was mezzotint-screened, then flat-colored, unfortunately losing a lot of detail in the process.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>DC's</b></i> production budget didn't allow for doing full-color photographic separations from color art, but that didn't stop innovative Production Manager Jack Adler from trying to get paperback cover-style imagery on the Gothic romance books as we showed <b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2022/08/beach-read-honeymoon-of-horror.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and <b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2021/08/beach-read-to-wed-devil-epilogue.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>,</span></div></span></span></div><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-29544300732269388872026-07-30T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-30T07:00:00.113-04:00Tales Twice Told HEART THROBS "I Know My Love!"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">The story <a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/07/heres-some-light-beach-reading-now-that.html" target="_blank">we presented yesterday, "Summer Love"</a>, had previously-appeared under <i>this</i> cover...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOpqSe8kJg0xmfrvU7WtkZLbRwgs92GtUTCqkv3qC9cOzAYdJiyUV3KG89WRRRgkxITnJijoBxeV7yK26y8Xm9XH1vwdmvbpa7x7YAGOZSCLjA7ko_QJojUXKANffM2ZXQgxidlP0Ck8/s0/Heart_Throbs-063-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOpqSe8kJg0xmfrvU7WtkZLbRwgs92GtUTCqkv3qC9cOzAYdJiyUV3KG89WRRRgkxITnJijoBxeV7yK26y8Xm9XH1vwdmvbpa7x7YAGOZSCLjA7ko_QJojUXKANffM2ZXQgxidlP0Ck8/s1600/Heart_Throbs-063-01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">..in <b><i>DC's</i> Heart Throbs</b> #63 (1960).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">When it was reprinted in 1970, the title was changed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">(<b><i>DC</i></b> tended to do this more than <i><b>Marvel</b></i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It drives comics historians nuts trying to match up different printings of stories!)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">John Romita Sr was doing a <i>lot</i> of romance comics work for <b><i>DC</i></b> during this period, before leaving to go to <i><b>Marvel </b></i>in early 1965.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">You'll note that, besides the usual "updating" of hair and clothing in <a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/07/heres-some-light-beach-reading-now-that.html" target="_blank">yesterday's story</a>, the art in the reprint version is "extended" on each page because the original pages had a printed header across the top of the art area.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The reprints eliminated the headers, and the art was extended either along the top or bottom of the page, depending on which way would be easier and/or faster to do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2VXUZLh7_PlFjflfbH8IwJ3_GorXknWHkb6WMynOUX7335Ei3dJmts7jzpbbbPgXn1W2ndEy8CiGdxxH7r8ZxsQlou1-TpOSh9ErkYrHHaO4smPXoKvM61P9IX4JafgXEAVwIBO0sr4/s0/Heart_Throbs-063-34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2VXUZLh7_PlFjflfbH8IwJ3_GorXknWHkb6WMynOUX7335Ei3dJmts7jzpbbbPgXn1W2ndEy8CiGdxxH7r8ZxsQlou1-TpOSh9ErkYrHHaO4smPXoKvM61P9IX4JafgXEAVwIBO0sr4/s1600/Heart_Throbs-063-34.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">As we showed </span><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/06/teen-age-romance-our-love-story-summer.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><span style="text-align: left;">, this "updated reprinting" became a common practice on romance comics until the genre all-but died out in the late 1970s.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publishers would do a <i>new</i> 6-12 page lead story and use retouched reprints to fill out the book.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Editors felt that:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">a) the plots were relatively timeless.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">b) updating the art was cheaper than totally-redrawing the story. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">c) the artists were better-utilized doing stuff that sold better (like superheroes).<br />d) the audience for romance comics, unlike superhero comics, totally-changed every 5-6 years anyway, and wouldn't notice the "old" plots.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Next week:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">We Re-Present Our Annual Summertime "Beach Read" Book-Length Gothic Romance Novel...</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)<br />And Now a Woed From Out Sponsor (Us)...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta; font-size: xx-large;">True Love Comics Tales!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><b>Paid Link</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><i></i></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-33027954869911047342026-07-29T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-29T07:00:00.110-04:00It's the Season for Lovin' GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "Summer Love"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Here's some light beach reading now that Summer's under way...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVw5C9NQ1Hz4d7ovOleR6vCq3k3-5O4FiJt2UlK7NeohpLrwLqpbd-j3lZsAAy7dSZjSue6AaLzWorlsDZLp9aP8l0hjEjxBwSgAp31Mttb1gKb7zUBD9ordcuIgYuLm9EcRag8Y50Og/s0/GLS155_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVw5C9NQ1Hz4d7ovOleR6vCq3k3-5O4FiJt2UlK7NeohpLrwLqpbd-j3lZsAAy7dSZjSue6AaLzWorlsDZLp9aP8l0hjEjxBwSgAp31Mttb1gKb7zUBD9ordcuIgYuLm9EcRag8Y50Og/s1600/GLS155_1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...in fact, it's <i>so</i> light, there's <i>no</i> dialogue or captions!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not a single, solitary word, except the title...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ0QOltDoVnMSLUsFQG3uYNjQ9W_3O5ibLcT2pbhtz7lThyphenhyphenedfDyghSkpy3SFr9PAYG3J7gV2IDS3Gfja03anvPza87on2ZK9WIKBrRmUdDT158JuuRBvS4BI1p5k1siH6vGJ0IfBbcLk/s0/GLS155_6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ0QOltDoVnMSLUsFQG3uYNjQ9W_3O5ibLcT2pbhtz7lThyphenhyphenedfDyghSkpy3SFr9PAYG3J7gV2IDS3Gfja03anvPza87on2ZK9WIKBrRmUdDT158JuuRBvS4BI1p5k1siH6vGJ0IfBbcLk/s1600/GLS155_6.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7aa98xPubUbbx0udiwP6nKBUYQiGbbAj2gm-wQWhYR-TIBYEVkSEo_jQ-i6VCBt-ioSapAt0uHLgMMsu74RqEB4GEcfaKrNqqskZzdgHL3vvTvdcKr5J2_i-L2x1dP48mfNxrbdTSuc/s0/GLS155_7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7aa98xPubUbbx0udiwP6nKBUYQiGbbAj2gm-wQWhYR-TIBYEVkSEo_jQ-i6VCBt-ioSapAt0uHLgMMsu74RqEB4GEcfaKrNqqskZzdgHL3vvTvdcKr5J2_i-L2x1dP48mfNxrbdTSuc/s1600/GLS155_7.jpg" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We re-present this silent story for your perusal from <b><i>DC's</i> Girls' Love Stories</b> #155 (1970).<br />The writer is unknown, but the art is by penciler John Romita Sr and inker Bernard Sachs!<br />You may wonder how and why the artist who was then drawing <b>Spider-Man</b> for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Marvel</i> would do a romance comic story for rival <b><i>DC</i>?</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">If you come back</span></i><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow</span><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;">I'll explain!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>And now a word from our sponsor...</b></i></span></div><div><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta; font-size: xx-large;">True Love Comics Tales!</b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><b>Paid Link</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i></i></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-41992323960241933002026-07-23T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-23T07:00:00.110-04:00Business Before Love? TENDER LOVE STORIES "I Wanted the World" Conclusion<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">We Have <a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2026/07/business-before-love-tender-love.html" target="_blank">Already Seen</a>...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUEn38SSEm-oiTafN12ZmdKTKPa3MUqYr0pfANkPEIrGY5jgrqpcYyZXBlSo7AcU-pNU4dVOSyyCXUEWgJ52ecFjaFqWAwxsV3HZ_xfsj1sgOsW2FXi0sP4H7IHRsMM6ihPZjos3njsM/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUEn38SSEm-oiTafN12ZmdKTKPa3MUqYr0pfANkPEIrGY5jgrqpcYyZXBlSo7AcU-pNU4dVOSyyCXUEWgJ52ecFjaFqWAwxsV3HZ_xfsj1sgOsW2FXi0sP4H7IHRsMM6ihPZjos3njsM/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Cover Art by Don Heck and Frank Giacoia</i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Scheming, manipulative </span><i style="font-size: large;">Crystal Larson </i><span style="font-size: medium;">has been bed-hopping (in a PG-13 manner) to move herself up the social and financial ladder...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQvWICqczUbE0lEdbcu9GZSslTZTDNuIAp_qRx7DPAed3NRhO6lxTJqqFWMijzuUmddMyYQggmOgqOiCsqAvAg5FrAMo8cLWIY2HI29LzG4EztEDWYDh1ZPm_wL-ACH0LKQMb4d0Dkr8/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQvWICqczUbE0lEdbcu9GZSslTZTDNuIAp_qRx7DPAed3NRhO6lxTJqqFWMijzuUmddMyYQggmOgqOiCsqAvAg5FrAMo8cLWIY2HI29LzG4EztEDWYDh1ZPm_wL-ACH0LKQMb4d0Dkr8/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-12.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RtuDUibfebx1CgaADRUwXNVd_hyZ4Z-cm4x2YduEEV1edM4JYDzT2auLWyrvioJU5mrPS3ojskOiOVDBTUQl7r-4I3-MbGQQph5_qY1igdtnd3EUl7YvQMR8u4NiZweGPkHyfmv_HuM/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RtuDUibfebx1CgaADRUwXNVd_hyZ4Z-cm4x2YduEEV1edM4JYDzT2auLWyrvioJU5mrPS3ojskOiOVDBTUQl7r-4I3-MbGQQph5_qY1igdtnd3EUl7YvQMR8u4NiZweGPkHyfmv_HuM/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-13.jpg" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>This never-reprinted tale from <b><i>Skywald's</i></b> </span><b>Tender Love Stories</b><span> #2 (1971) shows that what's good for the goose is equally-good for the gander!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Berkshire Swash;">Next Week:<br />We're Not Sure What We'll Present, But We <i>Guarantee</i> That...<br /><span style="color: red;">Youll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></span><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>And now a word from our sponsor...</b></i></span></div><div><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta; font-size: xx-large;">True Love Comics Tales!</b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91sR-mUmWIL.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><div><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Heart Throbs</b></span></a></div><div><a href="http://amzn.to/2fMBWkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Best of DC Romance Comics</b></i></span></a><br /><b>Paid Link</b></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-21207238091881039762026-07-22T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-23T01:37:49.617-04:00Business Before Love? TENDER LOVE STORIES "I Wanted the World" Part 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">When most women describe themselves as "hard-working"...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP5MlFZobwcbFMNIJyP8umJcBUv8A_eVjqJseBYD6IlOpZzh9N4kkPTnXqtaUqdgl-4nrI0wv2u9y3AcBRNjEl5HmHf1J9OnR8YMz9i7kE6BCL57sTJMvKbHVCYPgS6r_7yQ7UMqC-c0/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP5MlFZobwcbFMNIJyP8umJcBUv8A_eVjqJseBYD6IlOpZzh9N4kkPTnXqtaUqdgl-4nrI0wv2u9y3AcBRNjEl5HmHf1J9OnR8YMz9i7kE6BCL57sTJMvKbHVCYPgS6r_7yQ7UMqC-c0/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-03.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...I don't think this is quite what they mean!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But then, <i>Crystal Larson</i> isn't planning to go though the whole "nose to the grindstone" routine...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnCISANpd33qr7NGcmupfZdkdCG3wFeYs4CuLCazpDkMVGm9YMImWWNTtUP1C_PuRdjB-x3jU6H6i-QeajC9JzuyPc69T19bAcefCX-UncZXg0Av7t8LZ0NEJ4WQqS-thNl61ZNxOO4m4/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnCISANpd33qr7NGcmupfZdkdCG3wFeYs4CuLCazpDkMVGm9YMImWWNTtUP1C_PuRdjB-x3jU6H6i-QeajC9JzuyPc69T19bAcefCX-UncZXg0Av7t8LZ0NEJ4WQqS-thNl61ZNxOO4m4/s1600/TenderLoveStories2-08.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looks like Crystal's planning to move <i>up</i> in the corporate structure...as we shall see...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow!<br />You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></i></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Jack Katz (with some redrawing by <i><b>Skywald's</b></i> art director Ross Andru along with inking by Mike Esposito and Frank Giacoia), this never-reprinted tale from <i><b>Skywald's</b></i> <b>Tender Love Stories</b> #2 (1971) shows a more 1940s-50s mindset than a tale written at the dawn of the Womens' Lib movement should!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">BTW, our sincere thanks to the amazing <a href="http://kracalactakacreations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i>Kracalactaka</i></a> for the scans from this incredibly-hard to find comic!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>And now a word from our sponsor...</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Support </b></span></span><b style="color: magenta; 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font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">On One of the Social Media Sites Where We Post Links to This Blog...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtsqIq5J07BS30fQ3kZR44qXp0X-HWOXVWOV66okG2Ef2BpXbJ9qfM_EKBhfOf_sBnursyoxfrH1VzjeEPOUWu7mmsAaobKU4L1FdMkT3Mpn-SK6qDLqNweebm5Dv_undNLf-ixmPWptRcBny41VF4lofp-GJ-OG1fWCmIs7s-FPQ7JNbyUULysP5JoTE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtsqIq5J07BS30fQ3kZR44qXp0X-HWOXVWOV66okG2Ef2BpXbJ9qfM_EKBhfOf_sBnursyoxfrH1VzjeEPOUWu7mmsAaobKU4L1FdMkT3Mpn-SK6qDLqNweebm5Dv_undNLf-ixmPWptRcBny41VF4lofp-GJ-OG1fWCmIs7s-FPQ7JNbyUULysP5JoTE=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;">...fellow comics pro Steve Hogan aka <b><a href="@acidkeg.bsky,social" target="_blank">Acid Keg Comics</a></b> posted the original art of this romance comics cover attributed to John Romita Sr, which Romita himself notes "Done in the French Romance style"</div><div style="text-align: left;">I wondered why it would be referred to that way, so I dug up the story the cover promotes...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8cyxjAoP1y2ifTMQSko3K4o0oD-P7GnlysdES232dJkAfosvjX0ZSZ0UF42NdatGakEDXCYJXdYT9dBUExULaX8dMFhN0vaVjC3ncYka2qf1RLNrkYIzcbrmSmAQEc2V-tm1ef2npjAwVlO4hELShad_GtLsa-jKUTOFUzONco5t_qRQN3vJhg2iuiws" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8cyxjAoP1y2ifTMQSko3K4o0oD-P7GnlysdES232dJkAfosvjX0ZSZ0UF42NdatGakEDXCYJXdYT9dBUExULaX8dMFhN0vaVjC3ncYka2qf1RLNrkYIzcbrmSmAQEc2V-tm1ef2npjAwVlO4hELShad_GtLsa-jKUTOFUzONco5t_qRQN3vJhg2iuiws=s1600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtYIqCjpYCGQKajX8Xi8RIZwLvxZTRG4Es39f-VwNahm3JJb1JhCipLXIaET9J2EndaXDnekmt3PWpF_jRl2voLwPyAvfWlpn_W_zgwqVKDMeFmN6dxmLS0RcOR2ErQN6UbXDR-fIbxEsAaLHYitZ2bN2tkydVdo7sv9nH1G1SrOgcJgAIdypIvcTmadk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtYIqCjpYCGQKajX8Xi8RIZwLvxZTRG4Es39f-VwNahm3JJb1JhCipLXIaET9J2EndaXDnekmt3PWpF_jRl2voLwPyAvfWlpn_W_zgwqVKDMeFmN6dxmLS0RcOR2ErQN6UbXDR-fIbxEsAaLHYitZ2bN2tkydVdo7sv9nH1G1SrOgcJgAIdypIvcTmadk=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;">The illustrator, <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/montserrat_enrique.htm">Enrique Montserratt</a>, was actually a <i>Spanish</i> artist whose work appeared, thanks to multi-lingual syndication services, in most European countries...including France and England!<br />No doubt Romita (or someone else at <i><b>Marvel</b></i>) saw his French or British work and offered him an assignment of a Stan Lee script.<br />Sadly, whether it was due to distance, language difficulties, time constraints, or who-knows-what, this tale from <b><i>Marvel's </i>My Love</b> #12 (1971) was Montserratt's <i>only</i> work for <b><i>Marvel</i></b> (or <i>any</i> American publisher!)<br /><div style="text-align: center;">Getting back to the cover, here's the printed version...</div></div></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iRb31LeI0HdhyCJsxrzntd9eFPsKvcWw_U9cyYQAtgM9S2jT9kGZ_d6_R7NwpV5Fhvsn3zjCkuv9veuIrbY7wgMlhmOkrP7hlnIybH74xXZ6I2tlc65P-DiSkh8zkqUD58k2kPPvVvb8Cy-Ne9lvKdBjtkdKzCkK00Sg0gRlC5PuS5ENK2h3aKit-Y8/s781/MyLove12-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iRb31LeI0HdhyCJsxrzntd9eFPsKvcWw_U9cyYQAtgM9S2jT9kGZ_d6_R7NwpV5Fhvsn3zjCkuv9veuIrbY7wgMlhmOkrP7hlnIybH74xXZ6I2tlc65P-DiSkh8zkqUD58k2kPPvVvb8Cy-Ne9lvKdBjtkdKzCkK00Sg0gRlC5PuS5ENK2h3aKit-Y8/s1600/MyLove12-01.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Note the second circular caption on the right ("I Need Him--") and the surprinted text "Don't Dare Miss--" have apparently fallen-off the original art! </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI5yg-e7uhwZuWoPFL_WN1jGllXvPQEeF5E3W8YWbToaJAJ1NKAIuCec-vmfDg2IFJn2iy6bgMwVAqr2xWLkC-8hs-ogcTili40_pXg9xFMe2HEqbn-HiYBVV22uhGWaWD8k6adocc1rZmOYBkR2k3KwLqmiOcqM8dodlhSjbGAFrORDGtpSfjFx6X6BI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI5yg-e7uhwZuWoPFL_WN1jGllXvPQEeF5E3W8YWbToaJAJ1NKAIuCec-vmfDg2IFJn2iy6bgMwVAqr2xWLkC-8hs-ogcTili40_pXg9xFMe2HEqbn-HiYBVV22uhGWaWD8k6adocc1rZmOYBkR2k3KwLqmiOcqM8dodlhSjbGAFrORDGtpSfjFx6X6BI=s1600" /></a></div><span><span style="font-size: medium;">When the tale and cover were reprinted a couple of years later in </span><b style="font-size: large;"><i>Marvel's</i> Our Love Story</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> #26 (1973), they were reprinted without the usual "updating" of hair and fashions!</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In fact, the interior art wasn't even </span><i style="font-size: large;">re-colored</i><span style="font-size: medium;">...which was even rarer!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Next Week:</b></i></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><div><b style="color: red; font-size: xx-large;">We're Not Sure Yet Exactly <i>Which</i> Story We'll Present!</b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><b><i>But, We Guarantee...</i></b></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And now a word from out sponsor..</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Visit </span></b></i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Amazon</span></b><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and Buy...</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2bfv26U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdguR7ibmC7CKlt1v-ZeTWTGhLRMphKZmc17UZmzIkFZosuWbF4c9fsjWJqi7nEsjKM2nuVakKB44nAozEX4smR1EOeMwaMeZxZt3aOM9arLX7_r6ZT07Zp9QEyqp11H9-IzyXAd_4sDx/s1600/marvel-romance-tpb-2006.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://amzn.to/2bfv26U" target="_blank">Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Marvel's </i></b>picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Collects </span><b>Love Romance</b><span> #89 and #101-104; </span><b>My Love</b><span> #2, #14, #16 and #18-20;</span><b> Teen-Age Romance</b><span> #77 and #84, </span><b>Our Love Story</b><span> #5; and </span><b>Patsy Walker</b><span> #119.</span></span></div><b style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paid Link</i></b></div></div></span><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-90414970368138692492026-07-08T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-08T07:00:00.111-04:00Romance on the Range LOVE DIARY "Big City Girl"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">It's Culture Shock ...and <i>More</i>...When a Woman Raised in the Frenetic Urban Jungle...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaeIIl1wCKn6PV09bZtIVYJyzsWH5x6ai0owsr5nidkm3pOinss0_44t9OcGP9jkFV6jcspz_QP_3r5qmRPQrBM0TxL0cA0UdXKQ4UEFpSkvdh3f9j8-ozg6aoHdy1uiSK7U6Nnx69JIBZvPe3qvw2KlQEn3rdWsP3vV9PYQQV1YaG-egya8LJYTXdw60" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhF08ur3tpUfrDh9gyi4XPmZQnawJ_jyamh9kbuw_eCWAoauDgz9yMs99x8HJRlCMf8UOH-BrepaLnCsYSRJTVQaGXSg32WVI9JBfIba2YmKXjhAXF-pIpuSf1a6WCRx0DVaOCUpxXCaGWCecHOcDJkIhBw4PiJMK8QBeh6EnV71qYDl94aBjLaLnAIkgk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhF08ur3tpUfrDh9gyi4XPmZQnawJ_jyamh9kbuw_eCWAoauDgz9yMs99x8HJRlCMf8UOH-BrepaLnCsYSRJTVQaGXSg32WVI9JBfIba2YmKXjhAXF-pIpuSf1a6WCRx0DVaOCUpxXCaGWCecHOcDJkIhBw4PiJMK8QBeh6EnV71qYDl94aBjLaLnAIkgk=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;">Written by Dorothy Woolfolk and illustratd by Mort Leav, this never-reprinted story from <b><i>Orbit's</i> Love Diary</b> #12 (1951) presented the point of view that dwellers of the crowded canyons of concrete were somehow "less" than the "salt of the earth" types who lived out among farm animals and miles of vegetation!</div></span><b style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week:</span></b></div></b><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">We don't know yet what we'll present, but we can guarantee...</span></b></i></div></i><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</b></div></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And now a word from our sponsor...</i></b></div></span><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Support True Love Comics Tales</span></b></div></b><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Order...</i></b><a href="http://amzn.to/2fbuLkl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61H2DEK96hL.jpg" /></a></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fbuLkl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Agonizing Love</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2fbuLkl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Golden Age of Romance Comics</b></i></span></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Paid Link</b></div></b><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-30586479792279668722026-07-01T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-01T19:22:44.837-04:00Tales Twice Told MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "President Stripper" / MY LOVE "I Do My Thing...No Matter Who It Hurts!"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">We Dug Far and Wide to Find an Appropriate Romance Comic Story for the </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">4th of July</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrP5ErBGOYzfLOD-N-Bn8vZaUCL2p3hB5PmQtmrVo1HVodFmJZNwzoKWWaywMj3fC5JMehydw23p1CU2GC79e2eLj7DVGYezlWv1xT6-IvdzOs2ztSgGMtW3CU4_lBxmTWWOqVt6P0wm1_m8AJ92ULEShj2ME3qi8Kd1TwB13TayqedpKGOdyY4bqQKcc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrP5ErBGOYzfLOD-N-Bn8vZaUCL2p3hB5PmQtmrVo1HVodFmJZNwzoKWWaywMj3fC5JMehydw23p1CU2GC79e2eLj7DVGYezlWv1xT6-IvdzOs2ztSgGMtW3CU4_lBxmTWWOqVt6P0wm1_m8AJ92ULEShj2ME3qi8Kd1TwB13TayqedpKGOdyY4bqQKcc=s1600" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">...and what we came up with was...<i>this</i>!</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Berkshire Swash; font-size: x-large;">For Some People, the End of Summer Can't Come Fast Enough...</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MEEgb8IAAmI/UfkDrEnwCcI/AAAAAAAATfw/RGUOBONzUCY/s0/TeenageRomance084-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MEEgb8IAAmI/UfkDrEnwCcI/AAAAAAAATfw/RGUOBONzUCY/s1600/TeenageRomance084-01.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cover art by Jack Kirby and George Klein</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">...but this torrid tale by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Vince Colletta just </span><i style="text-align: left;">screamed</i><span style="text-align: left;"> to be told as soon as possible (and not for the reason you think)!</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qY2Q7Ecwat0/UfkDwLmEd2I/AAAAAAAATgo/M3AexM9xk60/s0/TeenageRomance084-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qY2Q7Ecwat0/UfkDwLmEd2I/AAAAAAAATgo/M3AexM9xk60/s1600/TeenageRomance084-11.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">PSST!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wanna know a secret?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This story, which we're presenting from <b><i>Atlas'</i></b> <b>Teen-Age Romance</b> #84 (1961) later appeared in <b><i>Marvel's</i></b> <b>Our Love Story</b> #9 (1971) in an <i>extremely</i>-modified form!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The art in <b>Our Love Story</b> was retouched by art director John Romita Sr to "update" the hairstyles and some of the fashions, including the swimsuits...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cwT740-68qQ/TlMZv-Th_JI/AAAAAAAADp4/5PdTnADSido/s0/OLS0090032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cwT740-68qQ/TlMZv-Th_JI/AAAAAAAADp4/5PdTnADSido/s0/OLS0090032.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Why did they do that?" you may ask...</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">With sales falling on most non-superhero genres in the late 1960s (including Western and war as well as romance), this "updated reprinting" became a common practice on romance comics until the genre all-but died out in the late 1970s.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publishers would do a <i>new</i> 6-12 page lead story and use retouched reprints to fill out the book.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Editors felt that:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">a) the plots were relatively timeless.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">b) updating the art was cheaper than totally-redrawing the story. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">c) the artists were better-utilized doing stuff that sold better (like superheroes).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">d) the audience for romance comics, unlike superhero comics, totally-changed every 5-6 years anyway, and wouldn't notice the "old" plots.<br />But this wasn't the last time the story would be modified.<br />As you'll see, <i><b>Marvel</b></i> could modify <i>more</i> than just the art!<br /><span style="text-align: center;">Five years after</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;"><b>DC</b></i><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">did</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2017/08/truer-than-true-romance-too-dumb-for.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">the snarky <b>Truer than True Romance</b> trade paperback</a><span style="text-align: center;">...</span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div><i></i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzujK6T2bxWeeqnC3hiY_ZOqX0iRy_gDuSYk2l_adLERjbAgsebqsyNBp4g5BLgXS9qDy6fG8zLXCJAnFqMQxiX_4FkpNkF3pkiDlGBro-gHAz31K_VsPQMgv_RzTDfu0-jRkBOW-Tr8/s1600/VFX-MarvelRomanceRedux-14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzujK6T2bxWeeqnC3hiY_ZOqX0iRy_gDuSYk2l_adLERjbAgsebqsyNBp4g5BLgXS9qDy6fG8zLXCJAnFqMQxiX_4FkpNkF3pkiDlGBro-gHAz31K_VsPQMgv_RzTDfu0-jRkBOW-Tr8/s1600/VFX-MarvelRomanceRedux-14.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">..which took old romance comics and rewrote them,.<b><i>Marvel </i></b>did a mini-series based on the same concept...except it was written <i>entirely</i> by males!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(The <i><b>DC</b></i> book was rewritten by a female writer.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's what they did with "Summer Must End"...an interesting combination of both the Jack Kirby/Vince Colletta original and the John Romita Sr-modified/updated version..</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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