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List Of Romance Comics
Starting in the late 1940s, several American comic book publishers sought out older audiences by creating a new genre: romance comics. Although the genre had waned in popularity by the 1970s, romance comics continue to be produced in the 2000s. Titles {{Dynamic list * '' 100%'' ( DC/Vertigo, 2002 – 2003) * ''All True Romances'' (1955-1958) * ''Boy Loves Girl'' (1952-1956) * ''Brides in Love'' (Charlton Comics, 1956 – 1965) * ''Career Girl Romances'' (Charlton Comics, 1964 - 1973) * ''Cinderella Love'' (Ziff Davis/St. John Publications, 1950 – 1955) — acquired by St. John in 1953 * ''Cindy Comics'' (Marvel Comics, 1947 – 1950) * ''Date with Debbi'' (DC, Jan./Feb. 1969 – 1972) * ''A Date with Judy'' (79 issues, Oct./Nov. 1947-Nov. 1960) * ''Diary Loves/G.I. Sweethearts/Girls in Love'' (Quality Comics, 1949 – 1956) * ''Dotty Comics'' (Ace Magazines, 1948–1949) — Title changes to "Glamorous Romances" at issue #41 * ''Falling in Love'' (DC Comics, 1949 – 1973) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Comics
Romance comics is a comics genre depicting strong and close romantic love and its attendant complications such as jealousy, marriage, divorce, betrayal, and heartache. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre published through the first three decades of the Cold War (1947–1977). Romance comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about the love lives of older high school teens and young adults, with accompanying artwork depicting an urban or rural America contemporaneous with publication. The origins of romance comics lie in the years immediately following World War II when adult comics readership increased and superheroes were dismissed as ''passé''. Influenced by the pulp magazine, pulps, radio soap operas, newspaper comic strips such as ''Mary Worth'', and adult confession magazines, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created the flagship romance comic book ''Young Romance'' and launched it in 1947 to resounding success. By the early 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas Comics (1950s)
Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book, comic-book publishing label that evolved into Marvel Comics. Magazine and mass market paperback, paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time. Atlas evolved out of Goodman's 1940s comic-book division, Timely Comics, and was located on the 14th floor of the Empire State Building. This company is distinct from the 1970s comic-book company, also founded by Goodman, that is known as Atlas/Seaboard Comics. History After the Golden Age Atlas Comics was the successor of Timely Comics, the company that magazine and mass market paperback, paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman founded in 1939, and which had reached the peak of its popularity during the war years with its star characters the Human Torch (Golden Age), Human Torch, the Namor the Sub-Mariner, Sub-Mariner and Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie The Model
''Millie the Model'' was Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics (1950s), Atlas Comics, to 1970s Marvel. The comic book series deals with Millie Collins, an aspiring model. Publication history The series ran 207 issues (cover-dated Winter 1945 to Dec. 1973), a 28-year span that included one of the first Marvel Comics annuals (in 1962),''Millie the Model Annual'' at the Grand Comics Database. and spin-offs including ''A Date with Millie'', ''Life with Millie'', ''Mad About Millie'' and ''Modeling with Millie''. At first a funny career-gal book about New York City model Millie Collins, it very quickly changed into a wider, more slapstick comedy, although for a time becoming a Romance comics, romantic adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
