Mike Sekowsky, Gene Colan in DC Comics’ Girls Romances #30, at Auction

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: gene colan, mike sekowsky, Romance Comics

Girls’ Romances #30 options the quilt function ‘Hidden Heart’ by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs. The challenge additionally contains artwork by Gene Colan.

Girls’ Romances was a romance comedian anthology revealed by DC Comics from 1950, the writer’s third such romance comedian ebook, and one which ran for 160 points, up till 1971. Creators on the title included Mike Sekowsky, who drew extra of those comics than anybody else, but in addition joined by the likes of Gene Colan, Lee Elias, Gil Kane, Win Mortimer, Bob Oksner, John Romita, Sr., John Rosenberger, Art Saaf, Jack Sparling, Alex Toth, and George Tuska. Nick Cardy drew many covers.

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein based mostly plenty of his works on panels from Girls’ Romances, together with In the Car, We Rose Up Slowly and Sleeping Girl. And Girls’ Romances #30 is up for public sale from Heritage Auctions, as a part of their 2024 February 29 – March 1 Golden Age Romance Featuring Fox Comics public sale, centered on this style of comedian ebook. With artwork and canopy from Mike Sekowsky in addition to Gene Colan contained in the pages.

Girls’ Romances #30 (DC, 1955) Condition: FN/VF. Mike Sekowsky cowl and artwork. Gene Colan artwork. Overstreet 2023 FN 6.0 worth = $45; VF 8.0 worth = $84.

The romance comics style in the USA was created by Captain America co-creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, with Young Romance in 1947, on the lookout for a brand new higt and one thing which may enchantment to older audiences. They bought it, and the sequence would final for over 200 points. By 1950, when DC was publishing Girls’ Romances, greater than 150 romance titles had been on the newsstands from Quality Comics, Avon, Lev Gleason Publications, and DC Comics. The DC line was overseen by Jack Miller, who additionally wrote many tales.

After the Comics Code in 1954, the titles had been censored by publishers, decreasing the quantity if accessible content material and plotlines for love comics, and gross sales started to slowly fall, as did the variety of titles on the stand till the final problems with Young Romance and Young Love had been revealed in the 70s. Charlton and DC artist and editor Dick Giordano instructed Michelle Nolan in Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics from McFarland & Company that “girls simply outgrew romance comics” and that it was “too tame for the more sophisticated, sexually liberated, women’s libbers… able to see nudity, strong sexual content, and life the way it really was in other media. Hand-holding and pining after the cute boy on the football team just didn’t do it anymore, and the Comics Code wouldn’t pass anything that truly resembled real-life relationships.”

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