My Comical Romance

Poor Celie, daughter of the richest family in town, about to marry the most eligible and desirable bachelor, when suddenly she learns that he has run off and married another woman!! How will she (and her family) survive the Scandal? Can she ever love again? What will the Society Pages say?? 

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Hi everyone, we have a special episode this time. We had a chance to meet Marvel and DC Comics legend Roy Thomas, and even asked him his opinion of Romance Comics.  And this episode features one of the first comics that Thomas ever (half-)wrote, and his only ever foray into the Romance genre!

Here we find Linda, who is happy in love with her boyfriend Jim, but she just can't get over the fact that he seems unwilling to fight bullies on her behalf.  Maybe she wants a super-hero instead?  Will Jim the pacifist give in to Linda's demands and beat up some hooligans for her, or is she right, that he's just a coward...?

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Poor Eloise was heart-broken when (at age 14) her boyfriend dumped her for another girl! Now she can't seem to attract other boys, she's always so shy and nervous.  Until... her friend gives her the book that holds the answers to all her troubles: "How to Get Your Man"!

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Poor Ruth, her marriage didn't work out so well -- considering that her husband drove off and got himself killed.  She's so sad -- not that he's dead, but that they really weren't so happy in the marriage in the first place -- and decides that she will never fall in love again!  We know how that usually ends...

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It's the late 1960s, and anyone who's hip is a swinger! They hang out at wild parties where everybody just kisses everybody else, and nobody seems to mind.  Except for poor Miss Goody Two-Shoes!  She's in love with Rick and wants him all to herself.  The only problem is that he sees her as such a square, he prefers her hip best friend Carol -- and they both enjoy playing the field!

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This is the comic that "they dared us to print"!  Who dared them, we're not sure, but the story concerns "Liz," a girl who is "strange," in that she doesn't seem to like boys!  The other girls tease her and her mother is deeply concerned.  Back in 1974, it was not easy being different, and a romance comic might not have been the best place to find guidance...

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In this brief but rather infamous story, published in 1970, naive young Beverly likes going on dates with handsome Nick, but he is so bossy and gruff, telling her what to eat, where to go, taking total charge of the relationship... she wonders if it always has to be this way with a man.  Then she attends a rally for "Female Freedom," and her eyes are opened to the inequalities all around her!  But how will Beverly's love life fare, now that No Man is Her Master??

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This is a special episode for several reasons.  We have an (experimental) accompanying Youtube video for the first time, which you can find beginning at:
https://youtu.be/6ZvHybw_x3w. 

There you can see not only our smiling faces, but images from the artwork we're presenting. This includes some famous paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, who "borrowed" romance comic images for his artwork. We talk about this phenomenon, then delve into the adventure attached to one of his most popular works, "Run for Love"!

Here we find the unfortunate Vickie, the ugly (or less gorgeous) duckling among her sisters, who is, however, a scholar, a top-flight mechanic, life guard, among other accomplishments, but wouldn't you know it, she can't seem to get a Man! Until she happens upon the rudest, most unappreciative man you'll ever find, so of course she falls head over heels for him...

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This month we go back to the hallowed halls of DC's Young Love to take a look at the romantic trials of Martha, a poor woman who has loved and lost the man of her dreams to her best friend/bitter rival, Lola! Now Lola and Kirk are about to be married and there's no hope in sight for dear Martha! Or is there? What if Lola's been secretly comically horrible all along?! Wait until you see what happens on...The Eve of His Wedding!

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This episode we take a look our very first makeover story! Astrid Franklin has a dreamy husband, but all she cares about is keeping the apartment clean. She doesn't at all tend to her weight, her hair, her...hunchback? What will she do when she learns the hard way that it's a woman's RESPONSIBILITY to be attractive to her man if she expects to keep him?

Once again we're tackling an issue that doesn't exactly hold to feminist beliefs but this is a story that takes the physical transformation of the makeover trope to another level! Marvel at the plastic surgeon who does everything but his job. Wonder at how easy it is to become a movie star. And be boggled once again by the weird mind of Ogden Whitney! 

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