Actual Romances , Campus Love, Cowgirl Romance, Dream Book of
Rom, Diary Secrets,
A Date With Judy, First Love, Girls' Love Stories, Girls'
Romances, Great Lover Romances,
Hollywood Secrets, In Love , I loved, Love Diary, Love
Confessions, Love Letters,
Modern Love, My Desire , Moon Girl Romance,My Date, My
Experience, My Great Love, My Intimate AffairMy Life, My Love
Affair, My love Life,My Love Story,
My Past, My private life, My Secret Affair, My Secret Life, My
Secret Story, My Story,
My True Love, Millie Comics, Negro Romance, Pictorial
Confessions, Perfect Love,
Forbidden Love, Pictorial Romances,Realistic Romances, Romance
Trail, Saddle romances,
Secret hearts, Secret Loves, True Love Pictorial, Broadway
Romances, Teenage Temptantions,Wartime Romances, Women in
Love,Young Love, Young Romance,
Untamed Love,
Romance comics were one of five major genres of adult comics
which boomed after World War II. The so-called golden-age .
During this period
adults, both men and women, were a major piece of the market.
For the first and last time, adult women were major consumers of
comics.
The comics were written and drawn almost exclusively by men, and
they tended to reinforce notions that a woman's primary goal in
life was to marry. However, these stories very frequently dealt
with complex, mature issues. Their protagonists were almost
always working women, and their problems were often quite
realistic. Working women
saw representations of themselves as intelligent, modern people
who valued love and dreamt of romance negotiating life in the
real world. And men were reading these stories, and seeing these
representations, too
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