"Young Romance #1 launched the genre."@en . . . . . "Sweethearts"@en . . . "Cover art by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon."@en . . "Romance comics"@en . . . "The origins of romance comics lie in the years immediately following World War II when adult comics readership increased and superheroes were dismissed as pass\u00E9. Influenced by the pulps, radio soap operas, newspaper comic strips such as Mary Worth, and adult confession magazines, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created the flagship romance comic book Young Romance and launched it in 1947 to resounding success. By the early 1950s, dozens of romance titles from major comics publishers were on the newsstands and drug store racks. With the implementation of the Comics Code in 1954, romance comics publishers self-censored any material that might be interpreted as controversial and opted to play it safe with stories focusing on traditional patriarchial concepts of female behavior, gender roles, love, sex, and marriage. The genre fell into decline and disrepute during the sexual revolution, and the genre's Golden Age came to an end when Young Romance and its companion Simon and Kirby title Young Love ceased publication in 1975 and 1977 respectively. In the new millennium, a few publishers flirted with the genre in various ways, including manga-styled romance comics based on Harlequin novels and Golden Age classics revamped with snarky dialogue."@en . . . . "My Life"@en . . . . . "My Romance"@en . . . . "Romance comics"@en . . . . . "The origins of romance comics lie in the years immediately following World War II when adult comics readership increased and superheroes were dismissed as pass\u00E9. Influenced by the pulps, radio soap operas, newspaper comic strips such as Mary Worth, and adult confession magazines, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created the flagship romance comic book Young Romance and launched it in 1947 to resounding success. By the early 1950s, dozens of romance titles from major comics publishers were on the newsstands and drug store racks."@en .