American Update: Love Is All Around…. Romance restocks for DC, Marvel and Charlton!
*Romance: Approximately 40 new issues added to our stock in this popular category. DC’s Falling In Love, Girls’ Love Stories, Girls’ Romances, Heart Throbs, Secret Hearts and Young Love, with beautifully-crafted artwork from Azzurello, Romita, Giordano, Sparling and more; Marvel’s My Love (#1 FN £20 pictured), which unleashed the best of the Marvel Bullpen on the genre, with Romita (him again?), both Buscemas and Colan prominent among the contributors, as well as artists on their way up (Jim Starlin, Alan Weiss), and those who had reached their heyday decades since (‘Miss Fury’ creator Tarpe Mills, who came back for a bizarre one-off in Our Love Story #14). Finally Charlton – who were more renowned for their bizarre situations than any artistic merit (though there were glimmers) told the reader, in series like For Lovers Only, I Love You, Teen-Age Love and Time For Love, how to win true love even if you were obese, your boyfriend’s boss, tragically ugly, or had your leg bitten off by a shark! The ever-changing face of the Battle of the Sexes showcased in a four-colour microcosm!