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Modern Love (1949) comic books 1950-1959

  • Issue #5
    Modern Love (1949) 5
    Published Feb 1950 by EC.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. Art by Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harry Harrison and Al Feldstein. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. Adele is bored with childhood friend Paul, but when Don drags her name into a small-town scandal, it's Paul she runs to. A musician navigates romantic and professional woes, in Wally Wood's first story for EC (with Harry Harrison). Living at a ski lodge with Jeff, Polly thinks she's put her misspent past behind her - but then Mike walks back into her life. Shame!; Video Romance; I Was Cursed By My Past; Too Busy for Love. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Modern Love (1949) 6
    Published Apr 1950 by EC.

    Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Gardner Fox and Al Feldstein. Art by Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harry Harrison and Al Feldstein. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. Babs wants to focus on her career rather than finding a man, and her boss Don is just a little too grabby. Another early entry from the Harry Harrison-Wally Wood art team, as a woman is torn between her blind husband and the handsome doctor who can save his sight. Redheaded Sherry is engaged to Glenn, but she hasn't gotten over her secret affair with Scott, who's dating Sally. Second Wife; Career Girl; Meant for Each Other; The Love That Might Have Been. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Modern Love (1949) 7
    Published Jun 1950 by EC.

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    Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Gardner Fox and Al Feldstein. Art by Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harry Harrison, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen and Jerry Iger. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. Elena Perez loves Mark, but she's afraid that prejudice will damage his career if they dare be seen in public, from the Harry Harrison-Wally Wood art team. Sheriff Lily Partridge finds love, but first she must put the past behind her, in a story combining romance, Western, and a ghost story, with art by Jerry Iger. The new schoolmarm in a Western town finds that cattle baron Mike has some very old-fashioned ideas about women. They Wouldnt Let Me Love Him; A Lesson in Love; Saddled to a Ghost; My Sacrifice; What Would You Do? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Modern Love (1949) 8
    Published Sep 1950 by EC.
    • 1" Cumulative spine split.

    Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Gardner Fox and Al Feldstein. Art by Wally Wood, Harry Harrison, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen and Jerry Iger. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. Happily married Katha learns that the husband she thought dead is still alive, giving her one husband too many. Long-married couple Hank and Libby learn that they were never actually wed. For the finale of EC's romance-comics experiment, writer-artist Al Feldstein presents the humorous eight-pager The Love Story to End All Love Stories," a commentary on the comics industry and the romance genre, featuring Gaines and Feldstein lookalikes. I Had Two Husbands; Way to a Man's Heart!; It Was Illegal to Love!; The Flames in My Heart; The Love Story to End All Love Stories. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.