You are purchasing the item pictured, framed. Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed. Just open box and hang it on the wall...makes a perfect gift!

In 1947, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby kicked off the romance comics craze with the publication of Young Romance for Prize Comics. Sales quickly approached one million copies a month and inspired numerous imitators, including DC's own Girls' Love Stories, launched in 1949. Young Romance and its companion title, Young Love, would eventually wind up in the DC stable as well, as did Quality Comics' Heart Throbs, Secret Hearts and Falling in Love, which debuted in 1949 and 1955 respectively, rounded out what must have been a bewildering array of options for the DC romance reader of the 1960s. The books' formulaic plots centered around weepy, self-loathing female protagonists, the inscrutable dreamboats they pine

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