Young Love

Cover to Young Love #1 (Feb, 1949)
Art by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

Publisher
Crestwood/Prize
DC Comics

Schedule
Monthly/Bi-Monthly

Publication date
(vol. 1): 1947 – 1956
All for Love: 1957 – 1959
(vol. 2) (Cr./Pr.): 1960 – 1963
(vol. 2) (DC): 1963 – 1977

Number of issues
(vol. 1): 73
All for Love: 17
(vol. 2) (Crestwood/Prize): 21
(vol. 2) (DC): 88

Creative team

Writer(s)
various, inc. (Joe Simon)

Artist(s)
various, inc. (Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, Leonard Starr, John Romita Sr.)

Creator(s)
Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

Young Love was one of the earliest Romance comics titles, published by Crestwood/Prize, and later sold to DC Comics.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Publication history
  • 2.1 Declining sales
  • 2.2 DC Comics
• 3 Awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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History

After the Sept/Oct 1947 release of Crestwood/Prize’s genre-launching Young Romance comic, (arguably the first romance comic

Publication history

Launched in February 1949, Young Love ran initially for 73 issues, until December 1956.

Declining sales

DC’s Young Love #39
Art by ?John Romita Sr.?

Criticised somewhat (as was the whole comics industry) during the mid-1950s Seduction of the Innocent-inspired Comic Book Hearings (part of the Senate Subcommittee hearings on the causes of juvenile delinquency), “love” or “romance” comics began to sell less well, and by 1963, Crestwood/Prize “got out of the comic book business,” selling many of their titles (including Young Romance and Young Love) to DC Comics.

DC Comics

DC gained Crestwood/Prize’s titles in 1963 and continued publishing their romance comics as “part of a reasonably popular romance line aimed at young girls” for nearly 15 years.

Taking over publication of Young Love after 17 issues of All for Love and 21 of Young Love (Vol. 2), DC continued the original numbering, launching the newly-branded title with Sep/Oct 1963’s issue #39. The revised (primarily-)girls’ series ran for almost 15 years, finally ceasing publication with July 1977’s issue #126.

Awards

Young Love won the 1969 Alley Award for “Best Romance Title”.

References

1. ^ a b c Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2004)
2. ^ a b c d Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: “Romance Comics”. Accessed May 27, 2008
3. ^ Young Love at the Grand Comics Database. Accessed May 27, 2008
4. ^ All for Love at the Grand Comics Database. Accessed May 27, 2008
5. ^ Young Love Vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database. Accessed May 27, 2008
6. ^ Young Love (DC) at the Grand Comics Database. Accessed May 27, 2008
7. ^ “Mike’s Amazing World of DC Comics”: Young Love Vol. 2 Index. Accessed May 27, 2008

External links

• Young Love Vol. 1 at the Grand Comics Database
• All for Love at the Grand Comics Database
  • Young Love Vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database
  • Young Love (DC) at the Grand Comics Database

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