My Comical Romance
A fun and fanciful romp through the cherished world of old-fashioned Romance Comic Books.
Episodes
30 episodes
My Comical Romance, Season 5, Episode 1: Love Came Like a Thief in the Night
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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56:55
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 6: Weird Love
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 commo...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:02:41
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 5: "Only One Choice"
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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53:41
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 4: "Bride of the Month"
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 e...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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48:17
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 3: "Working Wife"
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. Bu...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:05:18
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 2: "Kiss of Death"
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 fac...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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58:48
My Comical Romance, Season 4, Episode 1: The Case of the Teenage Mother
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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57:04
My Comical Romance, Season 3, Episode 4, "I Gave Up My Man"
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 Jef...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:03:52
My Comical Romance, Season 3, Episode 3: "Hollywood Girl"
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 Gi...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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43:56
My Comical Romance, Season 3, Episode 2: "My Pal George"
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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48:41
My Comical Romance, Season 3, Episode 1: "Scandal Bride"
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 eve...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:00:37
My Comical Romance, Season 2, Episode 5: "If You Love Me, Fight for Me!"
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-)...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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50:48
My Comical Romance, Season 2, Episode 4: "How to Get Your Man"
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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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40:52
My Comical Romance, Season 2 Episode 3, "Grieve for What Never Was"
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:51
My Comical Romance, Episode 2.2: "No Love for Miss Goody Two-Shoes!"
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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52:27
My Comical Romance, Season 2, Episode 1: "That Strange Girl"
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 concer...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:10
My Comical Romance, Episode 14: No Man is My Master
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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47:52
My Comical Romance, Episode 13: "Run for Love"
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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54:28
My Comical Romance, Episode 12: "The Eve of His Wedding"
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 m...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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48:13
My Comical Romance, Episode 11: "Return to Romance"
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:06:25
My Comical Romance, Episode 10: "The Brainless Type"
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 nee...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:03:36
My Comical Romance Episode 9: "Daughter of Women's Lib"
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 lif...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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55:43
My Comical Romance, Episode 8: "I Was a Pick-Up!"
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:06:41
My Comical Romance, Episode 7: "The Dream World of Doris Wilson"
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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37:17
My Comical Romance, Episode 6: "Once to Every Girl"
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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57:05