American Update: Early 1960’s Marvel Romance
*Romance: New stocks of two titles from Atlas/Marvel’s ‘transitional’ phase; the venerable Love Romances, which began in 1949, and the upstart Teen-Age Romance, which took over the numbering of My Own Romance in 1960, teenagers having become a notable demographic by then. All from the early 1960’s, when Atlas was shaking off its old image and transitioning into Marvel, we have new Love Romances between issues #89-106, and a brace of Teen-Age Romance, #’s 79 and 80. Kirby covers a’plenty (though in some cases so heavily Collettaed as to be virtually unrecognisable!), these are a happy reminder of the days before comic books discarded their female audience.