Golden/early Silver Age romance comic with a masked host? (FOUND: Jon Juan #1)

[full_metal_ox]

Okay; this one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain. I recall having seen-probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on another platform-a U.S. romance comic from the 1940’s or 1950’s that had an anthology host-something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorroesque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history (

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[reynardo]

Don't forget to ask https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ The Smart Bitches HABO (Help A Bitch Out) - it's amazing how fast one gets a response to that!

[full_metal_ox]

I’m afraid I’ve never been primarily a romance reader, so I haven’t the sort of lifetime amassment of background knowledge in that area that I do on genres like superheroes and horror; thanks for the heads-up! One of the Internet’s leading communities of romance nerds would be just the place to ask!

[full_metal_ox]

Thank you for your help; I found the comic, courtesy of superfangirl1 on scans_daily, who directed me to https://comicbookplus.com (an invaluable online archive of public domain comics)-where I tracked down the oddball one-shot Jon Juan #1, under “One-Shots” rather than “Romance”.

The specific story is “Lady in the Dark”, pp. 27-35; the setting is (19th-century?) Spain, and Jon Juan is dressing and comporting himself very much as a capa y espada adventurer-but it’s the titular Lady who wears a mask/veil, to disguise her condition.

And here’s the relevant scans_daily post, from 2011: https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2691288.html