Best remembered for its licensed comics, Dell also ventured into superheroes during the Golden Age, beginning with Phantasmo in The Funnies.
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Charlton liked the title and formula of its first successful romance comic True Life Secrets so much that they relaunched it as something else
Victor Fox's romance line is largely undiscovered country compared to most comics of that era, but contains material by Kamen, Feldstein, Wood and more.
Remembered as perhaps the best romance comics publisher in American history, St. John got its start collecting newspaper strip Abbie an' Slats.
Romantic Hearts was a romance anthology comic, first published by Story Comics with cover and art by Walter Johnson and probably Leo Fass.
The cover of Fawcett romance comic Sweethearts #119 hit stands in late 1952 with a Marilyn Monroe cover for her film Don't Bother to Knock.
The Ziff-Davis comic book romance title Cinderella Love was inspired by the enourmous success of the 1950 Disney classic Cinderella.
The romance genre 132 page Fox Giants are extremely rare even compared to the highly sought after St John Giant Comics Editions.
One of comic history's most notorious publishers, Lev Gleason's romance Lovers' Lane shifted from charming to extreme late in its run.
John Buscema did significant work for publisher Orbit from 1950 to 1953, including several covers for their romance comic book line.
Canada-based Superior Comics produced a number of very rare comic books, and romance comic GI War Brides #1 is one of them.
Long a magazine staple, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby pioneered the romance genre in comic books beginning in 1947 with Young Romance.
G.I. Sweethearts #37 is another unusual fusion of Cold War espionage and romance, featuring the then recently-revealed atomic cannon.
Dear Lonely Heart #1 is a rare romance comic launched by publisher Comic Media, who became notorious for its Pre-Code comic book titles.
Wally Wood became a comic book legend for work on EC Comics, Daredevil and more, but his early Fox romance work is overlooked.
My Date Comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby saw them take Swifty Chase from Airboy Comics and make him a romantic comic lead character.
All True Romance #11 features some of Pete Morisi's best work for Comic Media, an unusual Don Heck story, and a mix of the romance and crime genres.
Seemingly part of a final act of Pre-Code defiance on the part of ACG, Confessions of the Lovelorn #52 hit newsstands right before the CMAA was announced.
Comics Media, remembered for Pre-Code titles like Horrific and War Fury, brought twists to romance in Dear Lonely Hearts with Don Heck and Pete Morisi.
Youthful Hearts 1 features an overlooked drug addiction story "Monkey on My Back" that precedes the better-known "The Monkey" in Shock SuspenStories 12.
One of Quality Comics' themed romance titles, Broadway Romance #1 features Bill Ward cover and art and well-crafted stories about love on Broadway.
Dell's Private Secretary is not based on the 1950s sitcom. It's more akin to a 1950s paperback romance and seems to have caught Roy Lichtenstein's attention.
Cold War-era comics collide with romance in Quality's Flaming Love #1, in which Communists attempt to ensnare an industrialist with a honeypot.
Toby Press published just one issue of Sorority Secrets #1 during the 1950s comic book romance boom. But what's inside?
Romantic Adventures #49 features "one of the grimmest little epics to appear in a romance comic" according to historian Michelle Nolan.
Harry Anderson might be best remembered for his Pre-Code Horror Marvel/Atlas covers like Astonishing #32, but his Love Journal #10 is a stand-out.
Fawcett took over the romance comics business in 1949, launching an incredible nine romance titles that year including Romantic Secrets #1.
Editor William K. Friedman was determined to test the limits in the wake of the 1954 Senate Hearings on comics, and Romantic Hearts #9 is an example.
Debuting a year after Simon & Kirby's Young Romance, Marvel's My Romance was the second comic book romance title to hit the newsstands.
After a relatively quiet 1956, Ajax-Farrell launched (or relaunched) a burst of titles in 1957, including the return of romance comic Secret Love.