Art by Matt Baker from Wartime Romances #14, 1953.

What a great game show! Every marriage is happy—for a whole hour! (Minus commercial breaks, of course.)

Art by Matt Baker from Pictorial Romances #7, 1951.

I see you leaving now—without your boyfriend. I see him cheating on you with a sexy redheaded woman. She’s much more beautiful than you!

That’ll be $20. Don’t forget to tip!

Art from Falling in Love #63 (November 1963).

Vampires bites: NOT sexy outside of the movies!
—Sam Ridout, Last Kiss Intern

Art courtesy of Jacque Nodell’s blog http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-is-all-around-us-romance-comic.html

Matt Baker Art from True Love Pictorial #11. Click image to enlarge.

And that one thing would be—what? Bacon?

Scan courtesy of Jacque Nodell’s Sequential Crush blog.

So what have they been doing that Mom mustn’t know about?

A. Fighting crime as masked vigilantes. (POW ZAP BAMM)

B. Making out like bunnies. Really, really horny bunnies. Only hornier.

C. Pretending to enjoy kissing and dating each other.

D. Calculating the square root of pi.

E. Participating in a “love-in” protest against sex.

To find out, check out Jacque Nodell’s clever presentation of the 1971 Secret Hearts story “Mother, Let Me Go.”