Christopher Rule Archives

Martin Goodman's newsstand publishing empire was already rather sprawling by the mid-1940s, and included a wide range of magazines and comic books.  In 1946, he entered the romance magazine field with Life Romances.  The next year, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby pioneered the romance genre in comics in partnership with Theodore Epstein and Milton Bleier, the[...]

While the entire comic book industry was drawing fire for material deemed too violent and salacious during the mid-1950s, the Marvel/Atlas series Wendy Parker Comics went in a decidedly different direction.  Wendy Parker Comics was both funny and serious, and longtime Marvel artist Christopher Rule's take on the character helped make her an intriguing blend[...]