Halloween HeartBreak WEIRD ADVENTURES "Seeker from Beyond"

Sometimes, a casual reader would think all comic book sci-fi is space opera...

Art by Phil Marini

...but it can also be a combination of dimensional travel, romance, and, yes, just a tiny bit of space opera...

See, just a little space opera..one panel!

Note: on the cover, Zada, the alien queen is brunette, while John's girlfriend Jane is blonde!
But in the story, Zada is blonde and Jane is brunette!

Both the writer and artist of this cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Weird Adventures #10 (1951) are unknown!
Even the amazingly-extensive Comic Book DataBase can't identify them!

Cover artist Phil Marini did numerous pulp and paperback covers in every genre from Western to sci-fi to romance, but this is his only comic book work.

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HAUNTED HEARTBREAK

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Amorous Education PERFECT LOVE "Lesson in Love"

Did private schools really have such restrictive rules for the faculty as shown here?

Or is this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Perfect Love #8 (1952) just badly-scripted?

Wow! Are they strict or what?

We know it's illustrated by penciler Jim Mooney and inker Bernard Sachs...but we don't know who the writer was since the records for Ziff-Davis' long-defunct comics division no longer exist!

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Agonizing Love
The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Love in the Time of Covid-19 ROMANTIC MARRIAGE "There's Room for Three"

 Not every triangle between two women and a man involves romance...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Romantic Marriage #9 (1952) proves...

What did you think was going to develop here?

It's the 1950s, you dirty-minded readers!

Though the scripter is unknown, the art is by penciler Alice Kirkpatrick and inker Bernard Sachs.

Alice Kirkpatrick was one of the unsung heroines of Golden Age comics.

She started illustrating pulp magazines in 1937, but when the field slowly died after World War II, she switched to comic books, co-creating Sally O'Neill : Policewoman for Quality's National Comics and taking over Betty Bates: Lady at Law (a hands-on, kick-ass District Attorney) in Quality's Hit Comics!

But, within a year, her bread-and-butter became romance comics, with over 150 stories to her credit!

She left the business after the "Seduction of the Innocent" purge in the mid-1950s almost wiped out comics, and her post-comics life is a mystery.

BTW, you may notice a slightly-different look to the blog, especially in the way the text is breaking. This is due to Blogger changing their interface, and eliminating single-space breaks between sentences.

We're working to adjust the html to compensate.

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

(Which reprints another of Alice's romance comics tales)

WOMEN IN LOVE "Golden Wedding"

Romance!

Beautiful young people in passionate lovemaking!

Not this time...

...because, occasionally, we should look at the "happily ever after" we always talk about, not just how we got there!

See?

The "happily ever after" can be as kool as the path to it!

Sadly, there's no record of the creatives behind this particular never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' one-shot 100-pager Women in Love (1952) which featured (as seen HERE) a line-up of atypical stories for the genre!

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WOMEN IN LOVE "I Was a Greenwich Village Character"

For over a century, NYC's Greenwich Village has been considered a creative utopia...

...and the unknown writer of this tale seems very familiar with the workings of both the commercial art and fine art communities that mingled in The Village!

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' 100-page one-shot Women in Love (1952) is incredibly-overwritten, as if it was a prose story that just happened to be illustrated!

Artist Gerald McCann had the unenviable task of trying to actually illustrate panels that are overflowing with captions and text!

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Love on the Racks

A History of American Romance Comics

STRANGE CONFESSIONS "Everybody's Sweetheart"

President Don the John's interactions with Stormy Daniels remind us...

...of the double standard too many males (not "men" by any standard) still apply when commenting on male-female relationships!

Ben Brown and David Gantz illustrated this never-reprinted warped-morality parable for Ziff-Davis' Strange Confessions #3 (1952).

BTW, the writer is, mercifully for him or her, unknown, but might well be the Ziff-Davis comics line's editor, Jerry (Superman) Siegel!

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

STRANGE CONFESSIONS "I Was an Artist's Model"

Why do some women fall for arrogant, dominant men?

Perhaps this tale can offer an answer...

Illustrated by George Olesen, this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Strange Confessions #4 (1952) has a semi-50 Shades of Grey vibe, but the heroine manages to overcome the "temptation" of the overly-controlling guy.
BTW, the writer is, mercifully for him or her, unknown, but might well be the Ziff-Davis comics line's editor, Jerry (Superman) Siegel!

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The Return of Reach for Happiness...

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(Things are really getting juicy...)

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