"Young Romance #1"@en . . . "background:#ff8080"@en . . . . "724"^^ . . "Young Romance"@en . . . "Monthly/Bimonthly"@en . "various, including Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Jerry Robinson, Mort Meskin, Bruno Premiani, Bill Draut, Ann Brewster, John Prentice and Leonard Starr"@en . "527"^^ . "various, including Joe Simon"@en . . . "1556"^^ . "Young Romance"@en . ": 1963 - 1975"@en . . . . ": 124"@en . "Joe Simon & Jack Kirby"@en . . . "In his introduction to Eclipse Comics' 1988 collection of some of the earliest Simon & Kirby romance comics, Richard Howell writes that, \"Romance has always been a major component in entertainment, be it novels, plays, or movies, but for over ten years after the first appearance of comic books, romance only had a token presence in their four-color pages\". This changed in 1947 with the return from war of one of comics' earliest and best-known creative partnerships, that of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had already created Captain America, the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion."@en . "background:#ff8080"@en . "title"@en . "8416"^^ . . . "Art by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby"@en . ": 84"@en . . ": 1947 - 1963"@en . . . . . . . . . "In his introduction to Eclipse Comics' 1988 collection of some of the earliest Simon & Kirby romance comics, Richard Howell writes that, \"Romance has always been a major component in entertainment, be it novels, plays, or movies, but for over ten years after the first appearance of comic books, romance only had a token presence in their four-color pages\". This changed in 1947 with the return from war of one of comics' earliest and best-known creative partnerships, that of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had already created Captain America, the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion. Working for Hillman Periodicals, the two created a \"teen-humor comic book called My Date\", cover-dated March 1947, which contained within its pages \"ground-breaking\" stories concerned with \"comparatively faithful depictions of teen-age life, centering especially on romantic experiences and aspirations.\" Arguably itself the first \"romance comic,\" positive reaction to My Date allowed Simon to negotiate a deal with Crestwood publishers Teddy Epstein and Paul Blyer (or \"Bleier\") \"before the four-issue run of My Date had run more than half its course\", and to receive an unheard of 50% share of profits in return for producing their follow-up for that company."@en .