Love on the Racks
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7530-5 (ISBN)
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For the better part of three decades romance comics were an American institution. Nearly 6000 titles were published between 1947 and 1977, and for a time one in five comics sold in the U.S. was a romance comic.
This first full-length study examines the several types of romance comics, their creators and publishing history. The author explores significant periods in the development of the genre, including the origins of Archie Comics and other teen publications, the romance comic "boom and bust" of the 1950s, and their sudden disappearance when fantasy and superhero comics began to dominate in the late 1970s.
Michelle Nolan has been a newspaper and magazine feature writer for more than 50 years. She received an Inkpot Award for her work as a comics and pop cultural historian and entrepreneur. She has written more than 12,000 published articles in newspapers and magazines along with contributions to dozens of books. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Pulp Love and True Confessions: What Came Before Romance Comics
2. Twixt Teens and Tears: How Teen Humor and Girls’ Comics Provided a Bridge to Romance
3. Young Romance in Bloom: How Love Came to the Comic Books
4. Love Conquers All: The Record Growth of Romance Comics in 1949
5. The Love Glut: The Romance Boom and Bust of 1950
6. Writers of the Purple Page: A Short-Lived Flirtation with Western Romance
7. You Can’t Keep a Good Girl (or Guy) Down: Before the Comics Code—How Romance Comics Rebounded in the 1950s
8. Minor-League Lovers: One-Shot Wonders and Other Short-Lived Flirtations
Between pages 150 and 151 are 8 color plates containing 15 photographs
9. Cut That Cleavage! Before and After the Comics Code Authority
10. The Bland Leading the Bland: When Tears Began to Flow Freely
11. Hippies, Harpies and Heroines: National Comics Takes Charge in the 1960s and ’70s
12. Where Love Has Gone: The End of Young Romance and Young Love
Appendix: Catalog of American Romance Comics
(BY DAN STEVENSON, MICHELLE NOLAN AND JIM VADEBONCOEUR, JR.)
Bibliography
General Index
Title and Character Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 56 photos (15 in color), appendix, notes, bibliography, indexes |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7530-9 / 1476675309 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7530-5 / 9781476675305 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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