Golden Age Romance Comic Books | A Look Into the History, Creators, Covers and Collecting

A few of my viewers asked me to do a video on Romance comic books, and yes, I own a fair number of them that span over several years. If you collect older or vintage comic books, you will know that Romance comic books are some of the most difficult to locate and collect. This is understandable. Historically, the vast majority of comic book collectors have been male, and this genre has just not been on the radar for a lot collectors. In this video, I talk about the history of the first Romance comic books, as well as show some examples of some of the Romance comic books I have from the 1950s, pre-code and post code. If this video garners enough interest, I hope to make another one focusing on later Romance from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Chapters
0:00 The Challenge of Collecting Romance Comic Books
1:17 Lev Gleason Boy Meets Girl
2:41 Lovers' Lane Photo Cover
3:15 Simon and Kirby Young Romance
5:04 Fawcett Sweetheart Diary
5:53 Fiction House Cowgirl Romances
6:52 The Golden Age of Romance Comic Books
8:18 Young Romance 101
9:07 Pre-code and Post Code Romance
10:41 Hi-School Romance and Harvey Romance
15:01 Matt Baker and St. John Publishing
15:48 Lee Elias Harvey Covers
17:29 Young Romance Fantagraphics Edition
18:01 My Love Story Atlas

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