"Lovely Little Mouse" from Campus Love #1

Wild Desire (Untamed Love #1, Jan. 1950)

She plumb sick of him!

One last bit of love before the month comes to an end. ♥

Another Taste of Campus Love

I was going to share this educational tales here on Valentines day, but love and midterms got in the way.

"I knew all about men... because I'd studied every textbook and thesis on the subject! But one day a rebellious student trapped me wit a real, live man...and nothing in those textbooks could show me how to keep from falling in love with the perfect example of the undesirable male!"

Go read it on scans_daily! 

Practical Psychology for Girls

Here are some backup links! "Undesirable male" - 01 // 02 // 03  //04 // 05 //06  // 07 and the Short - He's My Boss!

Campus Loves

THE QUALITY COMICS BOSS: We need a new romance comics!

BILL WARD: I can draw pretty ladies in there underwear.

THE QUALITY COMICS BOSS: Okay you're on art! Now remember, women go to college to pick up men.

I think that's how it might have gone.

Campus Loves (Quality Comics, 1949) is a series of four books that was yet another attempt by Quality to jump on the coming romance fad of the fifties. They followed this up with Diary Loves November 1949 - April 1953,  Broadway Romances (January 1950 - September 1950), Brides Romances (November 1953 - December 1956), and Exotic Romances October 1955 - November 1956.

Here you can read the first story from issue #1. (Read by scrolling here)

 Campus Loves #1 03 // 04 // 05 //06 //08 // 09  //10 // 11

Pictorial Romances #17 (and #9)

Running 21 issues, Pictorial Romances was in press from January 1950 to March 1954. 


A warning to feminist readers, punching your screen will not make it any better.

Thanks to the Romance Comics Reading Room you can look though Pictorial Romances 9 (Matt Baker cover and story art)

Before you do that check out a story from #17, "Sharecropper's Daughter" Art by Matter Baker.

003 // 004 //  005//  006//  007//  008//  009//  010

I hope to be adding a lot of Matt Baker's work soon. ♥

My Real Love #5 Highlight Reel!

Kicking off the weekend of love we have 1950's My Real Love #5, highlight reel!

The cover (see left) stars David Wayne & Gloria DeHaven from "Down Among the Sheltering Palms." It has little to do with the content of the comic.

If you have a link to a missing section, please post it in the comments.

"In Love with Love" Art by Art Saaf- Read it here!

"Too Much Family!" Art by George Tuska

"Love on the 5:15" (1 pg, text story) story by Madeline Mines - Read it here

"Good-Time Girl!" Art by Nick Cardy - Read it here!

"He's My Boss"  - Read it here! (or here)

"Shattered Dream!" Pencils by Alex Toth, Inks by John Celardo - Read it here!

"No Regrets" (1 pg text story )Script by Patty Hendryx - Read it here!

"I Ran from Romance" Are by Vernon V. Greene - Read it here!

"The Second Look" - Read it here!

Falling in Love #4

Lost love has never been particularly romantic to me. Keep that in mind when I tell you the I found the story of Abelard and Heloise out of place in Dc's Falling in Love. Falling in Love normally sports melodramatic plots, happing endings, and female POVs (there are exceptions). Tragic love doesn't seem to eve play in to the plots in the end, so the two page side story in an oddity to me.
This comics start in 1955, but issue #4 is dated Apil 1956. It ran 143 issues, ending in November 1973. I meant to post from #1, but the collector in me can't seem to put it on the scanner. So, let's pretend #4, is golden age!...Please? Come on I have no romance comics up at all...
Check out Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics-DC Reprint Guide for more on Falling in Love reprints. Information on this comics is scare, but dccomics40 has more coverage on individual issues. For more on the history of the story see Abelard and Heloise.
From DC Comics' Falling in Love #4

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On a whim here is an Ad from the issue. http://i51.tinypic.com/2z883lt.jpg
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