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As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Young Romance #193's "Wanting Woman!" In a story that even then was bound to provoke a thousand jokes among readers about filling cavities and getting drilled, this yarn centers on Vera, a young lady who is madly in love w

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Secret Hearts #105's "The Wrong Kind of Love!" If you get most of your information about romance from comics, which I do, then it becomes pretty clear that teen-age romances are a Machiavellian web of lies and deceit... Re

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Girl Confessions #13's "I Can't Get Married!" Oh, relax, they don't mean, you know, at the same time...

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Our Love Story #29's "When Love is Lost!" A lot of thought can go into choosing your college courses...

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Girl Confessions #20's "My First Love!" This classic of the Atlas Age of Comics tells the story of a young lady named Marica...

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry, Teen-Age Romance #84's "An Older Man!" A garden, a wheelchair and a textbook: The classic recipe for romance...

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Our Love Story #28's "Alone in the Dark!" Fortunately for all concerned, "Alone in the Dark" has nothing to do with the video game series of the same name or its 2005 Uwe Boll/Tara Reid adaptation...

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Our Love Story #29's "When A Love Story Ends!" Jean Thomas and Alan Weiss's depiction of Tracy's spiral into despair might seem a touch melodramatic, but keep in mind that her fiancee just broke up with her and told her th

As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Young Romance #86's "For The Love of Ricky Wilson!" This Stan Lee/Jack Kirby "classic" finds our heroine swooning and lovestruck, which was pretty much the default state for girls in romance comics...