Romance on the Range ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Stopgap: the Saga of Coby Nash"

Though not strictly a "Western romance" title......St John's anthology Adventures in Romance was an attempt to mix several genres with romance...including contemporary high adventure, swashbuckling pirates, and, as you'll see, Westerns...to attract both male and female readers!

Despite running romance strips in almost every genre (except horror and sci-fi), the book only lasted two issues.

Illustrator Leonard Starr spent a decade in comics before moving on to newspaper comic strips, first as an assistant on Flash Gordon, then as the creator/writer/artist of the long-running Mary Perkins: On Stage!
He's best known to contemporary audiences as the creator/writer/designer of the animated TV series ThunderCats!

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HOW THE WEST WAS FUN! "Crisco Keed"

Probably the last place you'd find a Western story would be a Three Stooges comic...

...yet here it is, from St John's Three Stooges #7 (1954)!

This never-reprinted spoof of the Cisco Kid was written and illustrated by William Overgard in a funky Harvey Kurtzman/Will Elder style and was probably meant for St John's MAD-clone title WHACK!.

But, WHACK! had been canceled in May, 1954.

So the story ended up in the final issue of Three Stooges, published in October, 1954!

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