Showcase Presents: Young Love, Vol. 1

Showcase Presents

by Various

DC's popular romance series, YOUNG LOVE, is collected for the first time in this massive, value-priced collection. This title features the work of artists who would go on to greater fame drawing super-hero adventures in the 1960s, including John Romita, Mike Sekowsky, Don Heck and Gene Colan. Stories include:"No Cure for Love"
"Fearful Heart"
"Double Heartbreak"
"Every Beat of His Heart"
"Afraid of Love"
"Believe It or Not, It's Love"

Genres: Comics, Romance, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics

544 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2012

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Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure Trash. Where's volume 2?

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of Silver Age DC romance comics, featuring art by the legendary John Romita on the recurring feature Mary Robin, RN. I never knew JR worked at DC!

Also art by Don Heck, Bernard Sachs, and Gene Colan, among others.

These stories are in a lot of ways predictable, but they're still entertaining. We've come a long way from when a girl's worth was dependent on the man she nabbed!

[Annabelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

This archaic compilation is worth getting only for its archival potential. And worth reading if only to marvel at the stratospheric leaps and bounds between the women portrayed here and the new generations of women today.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phone book-sized comp of legendary DC romance comic series "Young Love" featuring the continuing saga of Mary Robin, R.N. Nurse Robin manages to always find time to take pulses and temperatures and date patient and surgeon alike. She really gets around.

And speaking of getting around, the big surprise of this book is the major participation by Marvel comics bullpen artists like Gene Colan, Jazzy Johnny Romita, Darlin' Don Heck, Vivacious Vinnie Coletta with virtually no credits paid to the writer. Could it be bashful Swingin' Stan Lee behind the scripting? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Chris Andersen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This stuff was pretty fun and breezy. The recurring feature of The Diary Of Nurse Mary Robin (who never knows if she's a nurse first...or a woman) helped give the whole thing a hook to hang on to; once she was gone I began to lose interest a little. Still, some great art and great little love stories. It's nice to read comics that aren't action or sci-fi, but are still good, genre fiction.

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

The gender politics in these stories isn't exactly enlightened, but what can you expect from 1960s romance comics. The art, on the other hand, is fantastic, especially in the few stories Gene Colan drew.