All True Romance #13 from Allen Hardy's Comic Media cover features the story Substitute Bride by the legendary Don Heck.
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Girls' Romances #30 features the cover feature 'Hidden Heart' by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs. The issue also includes art by Gene Colan.
The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant #1 was published in 1957 by Atlas Comics, the company which would one day be renamed Marvel Comics.
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.
The science fiction and horror covers of L.B. Cole are fairly well known, but his approach to romance covers is also fascinating.
Considered "one of the finest romance illustrators in the business" by a contemporary, Alice Kirkpatrick is an underappricated Golden Age artist.
The highest grade copy of Showcase #4 (DC, 1956), the first appearance of Barry Allen as Flash, has just gone for a record $900,000.
The debut of the Justice League of America in Brave and the Bold #28 has just gone for a record $810,000 at auction.
The debut of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs in All-Story October 1912 has gone for $264,000, an all time record sale for any pulp.
The highest graded copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 CGC 9.8, the debut of an iconic Marvel series, has just gone for a record $1,380,000.
CGC has released updated information related to the incident involving an individual tampering with CGC Comics holders
Does the highest grade copy of Showcase #4 (DC, 1956), the first appearance of Barry Allen as Flash, have a shot at the $1,000,000 mark?
2024 starts with a bang on the vintage comics front, as top copies of Amazing Spider-Man #1, Showcase #4 and more hit the auction block.
Long-running DC Comics romance series Secret Hearts is one of the best-remembered romance titles in DC history, but it was almost a footnote.
Secret Story Romances #1 is a rare romance comic published by Marvel/Atlas in 1953 featuring a cover by romance comics legend Jay Scott Pike.
Complete Love Magazine vol 26 #2 was a pulp magazine that transformed in 1951 into a comic book, under the Ace Magazines imprint.
L.B. Cole's Jungle Thrills #16 and its Phantom Lady and Rulah content brought this issue to the attention of the author of Parade of Pleasure
The Marvel romance series Lovers represented a changing of the guard in comics, as the series took over numbering from Blonde Phantom's title
One of Marvel's most succesful romance titles, Love Romances includes work form the likes of Jack Kirby, Matt Baker and Jerry Robinson.
Marvel romance comics feature some amazing covers, but this one at Heritage Auctions asks the important questions.
Secret Hearts #83 published in 1962 by DC contains two "inspirations" for the work of Roy Lichtenstein, both originally from Tony Abruzzo.
Jack Kirby, Russ Heath, Matt Baker, John Romita Sr and many other familliar names contributed to flagship Marvel romance My Own Romance.
DC Comics' Falling in Love launched in 1955 into a surprisingly crowded romance comics market, but outlasted many of its rivals.
Underappreciate artist Joe Doolin produced nearly 150 covers for Fiction House 943-1950 on titles like Fight Comics, many of them classics.
Señorita Rio was one of the premiere spy thrillers of the Golden Age of comic books, drawn by a historically important artist Lily Renée.
Underappreciated comic book artist Maurice Whitman created dozens of covers for Fiction House during 1950-1954, most of them stand-outs.