Art by Dick Giordano from the story “Fooling with Love” in FIRST KISS #7, 1959.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman kissing cheek of skeptical man.
MAN: Are you a woman who crushes a man’s heart and then laughs?
WOMAN: Let’s find out!
1959 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman & John Lustig
7.2.3.6
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SCENE: Woman kissing cheek of skeptical man.
MAN: Are you a woman who crushes a man’s heart and then laughs?
WOMAN: Let’s find out!
1959 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman & John Lustig
7.2.3.6
MAN: Are you a woman who crushes a man’s heart and then laughs?
WOMAN: Let’s find out!
1959 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman & John Lustig
7.2.3.6
“At least that’s it for the MEN I love. If you include women and livestock, the number goes up drastically.”
Are monthly ‘romance’ comics still around? Have the daily availablity of the intimate details of real and fictional characters made them unnecessary?
Dick, unfortunately there haven’t been any regular (monthly) print romance comics for decades. And, yes, the more sexual and lurid romances available in romance novels and even TV soap operas (in their hey days) were probably a factor—as well as the more open sexuality (and scandals) of the real world.