Have any of you ever read old romance comics?

Have any of you ever read old romance comics?

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I wonder why they've never experimented with original romance/sci-fi/fantasy/action/adventure stories in an anthology format after the 60s/70s. It would be an easy way for professional novelists or amateur writers to get their feet wet in writing for comics without a strong initial investment on behalf of DC/Marvel/Image/etc.

Do you think the models on that cover ever realized they would be posing for one of the worst comics ever made?

I mean, an S&M porn magazine would be less embarrassing.

>I wonder why they've never experimented with original romance/sci-fi/fantasy/action/adventure stories in an anthology format after the 60s/70s.

In the late 70's the whole market changed. The prices had been kept artificially low since the late 50's (notice the 20 cent price on OP's image). Comic publishers combated this by lowering page count, paper quality until finally they had to start raising the prices to 50 cents and some times a whole dollar. Supermarkets and magazine stands where not impressed and started dumping them. At the same time, comic shops started springing up for collectors and the industry started orientating themselves more in that direction.

The anthologies died because the new readership was more interested in Superhero's (which where also more collectable and likely to make a profit).

nuns are my fetish. its like youre cucking god.

I never thought about it that way. So your ultimate lay would be Mary?

It would be for me.

God cucked Joseph with Mary. She's already used.

>This was supposed to be an homage to old romance comics yet they had to force a connection with the mainstream Marvel universe.

Yes.
Most of them have an interesting hook but are hell to read for more than a handful of issues.

Was there ever a space cartoon or comic with romance plots? Futurama is the only one i can think about, but the themes on the show are so varied

It's crazy.
Before the comics code authority, romance comics were a smashing success and pretty much every woman and girl were reading at least one.
Imagine a world where there would not only be a "shoujo" like demographic within the comics world, but actually way more popular than any other genre of comics available.

Only some of those tiny ones in Spanish that the liquor store down the block from me sells. Most of them were okayish with some pretty good art, but in terms of story a lot of them just blur together.

An incredibly large number of women still DO read comics, but for the older generations it's funny pages, single panel stuff and the like on the web while the younger generation is all up on manga. Romance manga and its imitators do really well in the west.

Any good torrents of these old series or ddls

Nope.

I still can't believe this exists.
Oh, now it makes sense.

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There's a lot in public domain.

I read the ones drew by Kirby in a Fantagraphics anthology. They were alright.

My brother.

I've found nun habits attractive since I was little. I'm not entirely sure why--I'm not the sort to get excited by something being "forbidden" or anything. Maybe it's from having a crush on Julie Andrews from watching The Sound of Music as a kid.

Hijabs are great, too.

I know we talk about thicc around here a lot but holy mother of god.

Hijabs ruined many potential sexy women.

Back when they were new (I had a lot of girl cousins).

Unf.

its the ultimate fantasy. your dick is so powerful, nuns will leave GOD for it.

My thing for hijabs I think might be due in part to a superior I had at work, who was, without exaggerating, probably the most stunningly attractive woman I've ever seen, so that might be another acquired thing from an outside source in addition to the Sound of Music thing.

The ultimate pure waifu.

You know they could do a romance anthology where every story is with a different established character.

No super-action. Instead they are little asides where the character has to dear with some romantic situation.

Wonder Woman saves some rich suave dude and he actively woos her which causes problems with Steve Trevor. That sort of thing.

You could have a lot of fun with a series like that.

I think it's also hot when you have a woman who is pledged to chastity but her body is so sinfully curvy that even the potato sack robe she's wearing can't hide her voluptuousness.

Yeah, good old Kirby. He really did cover every genre.

You read a lot of those old comics and you know that a guy is writing them.

>In the late 70's the whole market changed. The prices had been kept artificially low since the late 50's (notice the 20 cent price on OP's image). Comic publishers combated this by lowering page count, paper quality until finally they had to start raising the prices to 50 cents and some times a whole dollar. Supermarkets and magazine stands where not impressed and started dumping them. At the same time, comic shops started springing up for collectors and the industry started orientating themselves more in that direction.
What would have to happen for the industry to reverse course? As someone with no LCS, nothing would make me happier than to be able to casually pick up new comics while at the supermarket.

destroy the Diamond monopoly

Romance books continued for years after the Comics Code.

Very little in romance books would have been as strongly censored as the gore and violence in the horror and crime books.

I heard the romance genre declined because women wanted something more lewd than hand holding, kissing, and hugging.

Source?