Strange adventures 54

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I don't know much about the genre, but it's hard to imagine any romance books from the CCA era being very titillating.

 

I don't collect romance from that era either, but I always get the impression that the interest is more about mod / hippie / flower child culture than anything.

You are both right. There was a creative range that was present in GA romance that didn't move forward into SA/BA. Whatever titillating there was didn't survive the code and the collapse of the publishers from 40+ down to 3. And to stay current the milieu eventually had to reflect the times, the culture.

 

But the thrust was the same as it ever was. Romantic love, captured in images, would celebrate the extremes of both the ecstatic heights and the lowly depths In GA the mix was about 75:25, sorrow to joy. Moving into SA, over at Atlas, Colletta evened that up some. But DC had their own approach, and they were nothing if not consistent, summed up by Mr. T in Rocky 3:

 

Interviewer: What's your prediction for the fight?

Clubber Lang: My prediction?

Interviewer: Yes, your prediction.

Clubber Lang: Pain!

 

It seems that as concerns this basic element of human relationship, romance comics were not very different than the other modes of artistic expression. The challenge was how to capture our shared universal experience in a visual, small format medium. In that respect, DC did a masterful job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like the same girl having a couple of tough months!

[MrBedrock]

The kid's got moxie.

I've been trying to find copies of that title for years. Very tough.