Romance Comics News Today

Dells Private Secretary is not based on the 1950s sitcom. Its more akin to a 1950s paperback romance and seems to have caught Roy Lichtensteins attention.

Toby Press published just one issue of Sorority Secrets #1 during the 1950s comic book romance boom. But whats inside?

In Simon & Kirbys Young Romance #12, Jane falls in love with a man of unmatched strength, "He was the lightning, a thunderbolt, a dynamic force of nature."

Long a magazine staple, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby pioneered the romance genre in comic books beginning in 1947 with Young Romance.

Jack Kirby provided 7 of the 8 covers for Marvels July 1960 cover-dated releases, with his romance work sometimes overlooked by collectors.

The years 1950 and 1951 saw a boom in the genre and have been dubbed the ‘love glut’.

The Promise Collection is a group of high grade comics from 1939-1952, and in Q3 1948 the industry launched a huge number of new series.