Young Love (comics)

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caption=Cover to "Young Love" #1 (Feb, 1949)
Art by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
schedule = Monthly/Bi-Monthly
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publisher = Crestwood/Prize
DC Comics
date = (vol. 1): 1947 - 1956
All for Love: 1957 - 1959
(vol. 2) (Cr./Pr.): 1960 - 1963
(vol. 2) (DC): 1963 - 1977
issues = (vol. 1): 73 (#1-#73)
All for Love: 17 (#1-#17)
(vol. 2) (Cr./Pr.): 21 (#18-#38)
(vol. 2) (DC): 88 (#39-#126)
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artists = various, inc. (Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, Leonard Starr, John Romita Sr.)
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creators = Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

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

History

After the Sept/Oct 1947 release of Crestwood/Prize's genre-launching "Young Romance" comic, (arguably the first romance comicRo, Ronin. "Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2004)] [http://www.toonopedia.com/yromance.htm Don Markstein's "Toonopedia": "Romance Comics"] . Accessed May 27, 2008] ), by the prolific team of Simon & Kirby sold "millions of copies", the company (and duo) swiftly prepared a separate, spin-off title to capitalise on the success of this new genre. Launched amid imitators from (among others) Quality Comics, Fawcett Publications, Fox Features Syndicate and Timely Comics, Crestwood/Prize's companion title "Young Love" was released "less than a year and a half" after the debut of "Young Romance", and also sold well.

Publication history

Launched in February 1949, "Young Love" ran initially for 73 issues, until December 1956. [ [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=11619 "Young Love" at the Grand Comics Database] . Accessed May 27, 2008] Four months later (Apr/May 1957), Prize launched "All for Love", which ran for 17 issues until Feb/Mar 1959 [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=19758 "All for Love" at the Grand Comics Database] . Accessed May 27, 2008] , when it went on a year's hiatus, returning the following year and retitled "Young Love". This retitled series then ran for 21 issues between February 1960 and June 1963 [ [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=14827 "Young Love" Vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database] . Accessed May 27, 2008] , whereupon Crestwood/Prize sold this - and other - titles to DC Comics, who produced a further 88 issues between 1963 and 1977. [ [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=1555 "Young Love" (DC) at the Grand Comics Database] . Accessed May 27, 2008]

Declining sales

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DC Comics

DC gained Crestwood/Prize's titles (when Crestwood Publications stopped producing comics) 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. [ [http://www.dcindexes.com/database/series-details.php?seriesid=2404 "Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics": "Young Love" Vol. 2 Index] . Accessed May 27, 2008]

Awards

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

References

External links

* [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=11619 "Young Love" Vol. 1 at the Grand Comics Database]
* [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=19758 "All for Love" at the Grand Comics Database]
** [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=14827 "Young Love" Vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database]
** [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=1555 "Young Love" (DC) at the Grand Comics Database]