The Crystal Palace is proud to present the Blonde in a Red Dress as “Rosa Rio from New Orleans”… or at least, that’s the role she would be playing if she wasn’t currently curled up backstage with a stomach flu.
Hi-School Romance #9, by Harvey
Posts categoriezed as Romance
Photo Fridays: A Crooked Smile
The Blonde in a Red Dress was a little bit loopy by the end of the long all-day photoshoot.
Young Romance v4 #7, by Prize
Scandal with a Side of Dates
The perspectives and proportions on this cover look stranger the longer I look at it.
Glamorous Romances #52, by Ace
In The Cards
But will the tall, blond man be wearing red?
Pictorial Romances #7, by St. John
My Hero’s Illusion
The fiance of the Blonde in a Red Dress has trouble recognizing her when the cover is cropped so that her red dress isn’t actually visible.
G.I. Sweethearts #38, Quality
Afraid of the Past
Is the unflappable Blonde in Red really afraid of her past, or just afraid that her new boyfriend will be afraid of her past? (Considering that her past involves gangsters, zombies, and alien space monsters…)
Real Love #36, by Ace
Tomorrow is for Tears
“When he took her in his arms, there was only the blazing magic of today!”
First Romance #9, by Harvey
The Story Behind the Cover
What happens if a Blonde in a Red Dress with “no hope for happiness” is “too young to see the danger of loving a man who knew only brute force” in a tale of “side-street love”? She stars in the comic book PSA equivalent of a TV afterschool special, that’s what happens.
First Love Illustrated #15, by Harvey
Miss Proper Manners is Suddenly Quite Modern
Not so much a tale of young romance as it is a tale of stern disapproval.
Young Romance #34, by Prize Comics
