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strannik01 (strannik01) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-07 12:56:00

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era: golden age, genre: romance, publisher: harvey comics, status: public domain

When romance comics were downright creepy.

As anybody who read romance comics scans in both versions of our fine community can attest, romance comics often featured romances between young girls and men that were (at least) a couple of years older then them. But none of them were quite as creepy as "The Man of My Dreams," a story that appeared in Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #2. Now, I know that age consent worked a bit differently back then (it didn't count if you were married), but still... The names of the artist and writer who created this are lost in the mist of time, which is probably just as well.

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	goobalicious 2009-10-07 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	1) I love romance comics. I get such a kick out of gorgeous art paired with crack. 2) I have friends who have this age difference (16/21) and are dating. I can say with some confidence that their relationship is very PG, but I'm pretty sure I vomited when I first found out they were 'in a relationship'. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sinisterlink 2009-10-07 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	I had a friend in high school that was 16 and the guy she was dating was 32. All of my friends and I were basically like, "Urrrgh..." whenever the subject came up, usually followed by one of us being like, "He does realize he could go to jail, yes?" shudders The worst part was that I met him once and I swear us 16 year old were much more mature than him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-10-07 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	I knew a couple like that. He was in his mid-twenties, she was an emancipated minor at 16. They're still happily married today and their daughter has started college. You never know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	janegray 2009-10-08 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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