Number 2323: “The sweet torment of a strange new hunger!”

Mike just doesn’t move Arline, even though they are engaged. When a woman thinks “. . . I tried frantically to respond to the burning demand of his embrace! But I was untouched by his ardor. . .” then you think she wants to live in a romance novel, not a real-life romance with pitfalls and impediments to love. Arline and Mike are flying to South America to get married when a clogged fuel line puts them down on an island with some island rowdies who hang around bars. That’s when she meets Chris and falls for him, despite being torn between love and duty to her future husband, Mike.

“Derelict Bride,” the tale of Arline’s “strange new hunger” is from Quality Comics’ Love Scandals #5 (1950). It is not an untypical love comic story, but has some added cheesecake: Arline’s sexy costume when she agrees to sing in the nightclub, and a lingerie panel to add a bit more spice to the tale of two guys fighting for the love of a woman who might not deserve either one of them.

Sorry, although I know romance-starved readers would just love to know who wrote and drew this, it is unknown by the Grand Comics Database.

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