Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Romance Heroines, Face The Camera!

If you've read enough Joe Simon and Jack Kirby romance comics--and by god, if you haven't, than get reading!!--you've no doubt noticed that they had an unusual introductory motif:

Not in every story. mind you. But in many, many of them...

In the splash panel, our heroine would describe her problem directly to the readers...

 

...ending in giving us the title of the story in big-assed font:

Let's look at some more...

(That's not as creepy as it seems...he was an adult trying to get some education to improve himself...)

No, your sacrifice was your fashion sense, apparently!


No, which of these was the worse problem...loving a woman-hater...

...or loving a mama's boy?

This one is like Kirby and Simon were spying on my love life:

Here's an interesting case...

While most romance stories have us assume that all problems are permanently solved with the last 4 panels of self-realization and revelation, in Toni Benson's case, Kirby and Simon decided that she and her beau weren't out of the woods yet, and published an actual sequel story!

This doesn't exactly fit the motif, but I couldn't resist...

From Young Romance: The Best Of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics (2012)