Romance comics is a comics genre depicting strong and close romantic love and its attendant complications such as jealousy, marriage, divorce, betrayal, and heartache.
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10 Facts About Romance comics
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Dating, love triangles, jealousy and other romance-related themes had been a part of teen humor comics — featuring characters such as Archie, Reggie, Jughead, Betty, and Veronica, and the kids at Riverdale High School — before the romance genre swept newsstands.
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Fawcett published three issues of Negro Romance comics, which was notable for its eschewing of African-American stereotypes, telling stories interchangeable with those told about white characters.
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Romance comics sold well, and affected the sales of both superhero comics and confession magazines.
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Romance comics claimed the genre gave female readers a false image of love and feelings of physical inferiority.
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Romance comics were a product of the postwar years in America and bolstered the Cold War era's ideology regarding the American way of life.
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Romance comics made it clear that men were not attracted to working women, were bored with intelligent women, and preferred domestic homebodies.
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Romance comics plots were typically formulaic with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights a seeming inspiration.
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Adolescent girls could harmlessly indulge their bad boy fantasies in such stories but, in truth, romance comics tried to be democratic in their depiction of bad boys, giving them a softer side and not depicting them as irredeemably bad.
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In 2011, an anthology Agonizing Love: The Golden Era of Romance Comics, edited by Michael Barson, was published by Harper Design.
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