vintage awful romance comics of the day

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Just Married #107, September 1975
By the end of the 1950s, the majority of comic-book publishers were gone, victims of the great comic-industry slump, and by the 1960s only Charlton, Marvel, and DC Comics were still publishing romances. Of the three, Charlton's were probably the absolute worst love comics ever produced. Each issue gave the impression that, after having blown their entire monthly budget on a beautiful cover, the editors parceled out the interior pages to various talented high school relatives of the staff. - Trina Robbins, From Girls to Grrrlz (1999)
While doing some file housekeeping on my computer, I found several scans of one-page fillers from those rock-bottom Charlton romance comics. In this particular issue, the uncredited writers (who online databases don't identify, possibly to spare them embarrassment) were fixated on how many punchlines they could write based on the low intelligence of females. Truly bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, relying on tired old stereotypes that would have been ancient in 1955, let alone 1975.

All this in a titled called Just Married. One hopes the liaisons depicted in its pages didn't last long, and that the female protagonists realized the guys they were mooning over were schmucks.

Just Married #107, September 1975
Just Married only lasted seven more issues, one of the last gasps of a dying genre. 

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