Created by Vincent Zurzolo and David Quinn with art by Claudia Balboni, The Addiction is a unique combo of strange powers and the fight against drug addiction.
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Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press since 1996. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler, and has been with Bleeding Cool since its 2009 beginnings. Wrote extensively about the comic book industry for Wizard Magazine 1992-1996. At Avatar Press, has helped publish works by Alan Moore, George R.R. Martin, Garth Ennis, and others. Vintage paper collector, advisor to the Overstreet Price Guide Update 1991-1995.
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.
The cover of Fawcett romance comic Sweethearts #119 hit stands in late 1952 with a Marlilyn 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.
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.
Wally Wood became a comic book legend for work on EC Comics, Daredevil and more, but his early Fox romance work is overlooked.
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.
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.
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.
Frontier Romances #1 features a cover by Gloria Stoll Karn and an interior story with what Fredric Wertham called "Erotic Spanking"
With his interior work at St. John halted, romance comics legend Matt Baker tried out a number of other publishers including Charlton.
1950's True Secrets 3 (#1) was a title debut from Marvel/Atlas at a time when romance comics dominiated their comic book line.
DC Comics' underappreciated first romance comics title included work by Matt Baker, Alex Toth, Carmine Infantino, John Romita and more.
Remembered by history as a superhero and Pre-Code Horror publisher in comics, Ace Magazines also had a succesful romance comics line.
Standard Publications' Popular Teen-Agers started out exactly what it sounds like: a teen comedy like Archie Comics with L.B. Cole covers.
Jack Kirby provided 7 of the 8 covers for Marvel's July 1960 cover-dated releases, with his romance work sometimes overlooked by collectors.