Secret Hearts

The Listening Heart Thinks Your Feelings Are Stupid (1965)
The Listening Heart Thinks Your Feelings Are Stupid (1965)
The Listening Heart Thinks Your Feelings Are Stupid (1965)
While my favorite superheroes are pretty well-known, I've always had a soft spot for the weird, minor and exceptionally obscure comic book characters, too. There's something about those goofy little weirdos that only show up a few times that always grab my attention, and this week, as we head towards Valentine's Day, I think I have found a new favorite: Amy Ames, The Listening Heart! Amy appeared in the mid-60s in the pages of DC's Secret Hearts as an advice columnist who would sort out her readers' heartbreaks and occasionally find a few herself, and I'll be honest with you, folks, those stories are not really that great. They do, however, feature scenes where Amy just tells a bunch of teenagers that their feelings are stupid, and that is a romance comic plot I can get behind.
Love Hurts: ‘I Felt Drenched By The Scalding Tears of the Heartsick’
Love Hurts: ‘I Felt Drenched By The Scalding Tears of the Heartsick’
Love Hurts: ‘I Felt Drenched By The Scalding Tears of the Heartsick’
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 #107's "Heartbreak -- Take Me!" In this novel-length tear-jerker from 1965, Robert Kanigher and Gene Colan tell the story of one Amy Ames -- The Listening Heart...
Love Hurts:  ‘That’s It, Darling — Cry!’
Love Hurts: ‘That’s It, Darling — Cry!’
Love Hurts: ‘That’s It, Darling — Cry!’
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