My Comical Romance

What woman wouldn't be excited and thrilled to find a handsome man sneaking into her bedroom through the window in the middle of the night?! Well, Eileen is the lucky girl in our latest episode -- Peter breaks into her apartment, gets arrested and tossed in jail for assault and other misdeeds... and only she can rescue him! What could be more romantic than that? Join us for crime and non-puni...

Two more short, disturbing tales of Love, somehow classified as "Weird". A girl is saved and smitten by a ghostly and supernaturally handsome man! Another girl's mother hates her taste in Rock 'n' Roll music! What do these stories have in common? It's hard to say, but they're both absurdly funny  and weirdly entertaining! Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@g...

Greetings! Thanks for joining us for another romantic journey. Although this  latest episode is entitled "Only One Choice," we in fact have TWO choices for you again this time. Yes, two new romance comic stories, which have some surprising similarities... but we'll get into that later. Suffice it to say, at least two women will find themselves facing a dilemma of Love which will com...

Hey, Romanticists! It's time for another spell-binding episode of My Comical Romance. Actually, it's time for TWO episodes. This month, we offer two brand new stories to amuse and bemuse you. The first, "Bride of the Month," manages to fit an entire intriguing and exciting story of love and marriage lost and found into a single page! The second, slightly longer, brings us contr...

In a rare Romance episode in which our hero and heroine are ALREADY married, wife Joan feels helpless as husband Dan struggles with the family finances (and demeans her offers of support). She makes the bold decision to go out and get a job. But will their marriage survive, if Dan has to accept the humiliation that comes with having a Working Wife??  Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@gmail.c...

In today's episode, "Kiss of Death," we once again visit with lovelorn Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love, to see if  this  time, maybe she can get her beloved Doctor Benson to notice her... In today's episode, she's aided by the fact that the doctor gets bitten by a dog, which might have... rabies! Meanwhile, they also have to deal with a young society woman who is about to giv...

Welcome to Season 4 of My Comical Romance! (not season 5  as  we mistakenly say in the podcast...) Today we have our first encounter with Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love!  A dedicated and passionate care-giver, Nurse Doyle caters to both the medical and romantic needs of countless patients, while carrying her own secret love  for the handsome Dr. Benson!  In today's episode, "The Case of th...

Trina is a young, promising student of fashion design, whose mom has scraped and saved to get her the best education and opportunities possible for a career. She puts all her heart and soul into her amazing dress designs. But then she meets Jeff, who sweeps her off her feet, and wants to marry her... but will she have to give up her dreams (and break her mother's heart) to keep her man?? Reac...

Welcome to the case files of Dr. Anthony King, Hollywood Love Doctor!   Dr.  King is a psychiatrist who solves the romantic dilemmas of Hollywood stars, and lord knows they need him! In this episode -- the case he calls "The Girl Who Couldn't Say Yes" -- he has to help poor Pat, a rising young star with a special problem. She wants to marry handsome, successful Errol (and who wouldn...

We go down a more treacherous path with this episode, with a trigger warning for content that relates somewhat uncomfortably to pedophilia . In this story, reclusive, nerdy George doesn't want to party with any of the other kids on the beach -- he keeps to himself and his books, overlooking his obligation  to make himself available to all the interested girls. Crafty Diane reveals to her diar...

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??  Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@gmail.com! Or find us on Facebook at MyComicalRomance.

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...

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"! Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@gmail.com! Or find us on Facebook at MyComicalRomance.

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... Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@gmail.com! Or find us on Fa...

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!...

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.....

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...

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...

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...

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 tacklin...

Poor Margie was never very smart. In fact, we learn that she was truly "The Brainless Type"!  So why did she have the misfortune to fall in love with -- literally -- a rocket scientist?  What could he see in her?  But when he needs help getting his new rocket factory off the ground, will Margie find the inspiration to help him?? Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@gmail.com! Or find...

Sue is a typical teenager in the early 1970s, trying to find her place in a changing world. She's got a loving boyfriend and a caring father, but her mother is a "Women's Lib" activist, who doesn't seem to trust any man who comes into Sue's life. How will her mom react when Sue takes a job at the local gas station -- putting her own boyfriend out of work -- but her bo...

In this episode we review the first-ever Romance Comic story, from 1947’s “Young Romance” by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby: “I Was a Pickup!”  Poor Toni got herself a bad reputation as a “pick-up” – a girl who once let herself get picked up by a boy, and now all the guys think they can take advantage of her.  But all she wants is true love like any “good” girl… Reach out to us at MyComicalRomance2020@g...

Doris is someone we can really relate to!  She's obsessed with Romance Comics... She avoids and rejects all the unworthy suitors of the real world, preferring the fantasies of love and happiness that she finds in the illustrated stories of her comics.  So what happens when a "real" man comes along, who also loves Romance Comics, to disrupt her dreamy thoughts? Reach out to us at MyC...

Poor Cora has confronted such disappointing failures throughout her young life: not having the prettiest dress at a party, not being chosen Best Student...  Now she's determined to succeed in the world of business, and she's not going to allow something as unimportant as "love" to distract her.  But what is she to do when a handsome co-worker starts to show interest, and warns...