Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

518 ROMANCE COMICS more than 7,500 pulp magazines were devoted to romance from the 1920s through the 1950s. Only the Western —fe ...

ROMANCE COMICS 519 Zip Comics #18 (September 1941)— but Archie eventually became by far the most successful teen in the funny bo ...

520 ROMANCE COMICS themes. Even when 80 percent of the dozens of romance titles that had entered the fi eld by 1950 were killed ...

ROMANCE COMICS 521 of 1949, when only 42 romance issues hit the stands with dates of January through June. St. John and Harvey, ...

522 ROMANCE COMICS producing comics, the stylish Matt Baker , one of the few African American artists in comics, shifted to St. ...

ROMANCE COMICS 523 four titles to two. Marvel killed 25 of 30 romance titles that appeared early in 1950, most of which did not ...

524 ROMANCE COMICS persisted. Th ere were 347 romance issues in 1955, the fi rst year of censorship, followed by 296 in 1956, al ...

ROMANCE COMICS 525 Another noteworthy attempt at lengthy hybrid stories was Fawcett’s three-issue run of Love Mystery , which wa ...

526 ROMANCE COMICS (the line expanded to seven when DC purchased Crestwood’s then-venerable Yo u n g Romance and Young Love in 1 ...

ROMITA, JOHN, JR 527 (September and October 1968) entitled “My Time to Love.” Th e heroine tells the hippie fellow, “Oh, Kip... ...

528 ROMITA, JOHN, SR Romita Jr. is most synonymous with Spider-Man. Th ough he has long since moved out from his father’s shadow ...

RONIN 529 worked for Timely Comics to ghost pencil pages for him. Ultimately, this would help Romita meet Timely’s art director, ...

530 RONIN for creators’ rights with his fi rst creator-owned comic, but he also evolved as a comic artist on a visual level. Eac ...

ROSS, ALEX 531 the second page onwards, Miller shows the diff erence between vertical and horizontal panels, using fi lmic devic ...

532 RUCKA, GREG his art and storytelling: Marvels (1994), Astro City (1995), Kingdom Come (1996) and the “Earth” series Earth X ...

RUNAWAYS 533 story in a medium prone to visual excess and thin plotlines. Starting what would later become a pattern with his ve ...

534 RUNAWAYS Ramos and Takeshi Miyazawa then produced nine subsequent issues, with Kathryn Immonen and Sara Pichelli scheduled t ...

RUSSELL, P. CRAIG 535 individual story arcs) as well as subsequently published material. Pride and Joy (#1– 6) introduces the ma ...

536 RUSSELL, P. CRAIG his work by Opus number, much like a classical composer). During this time, Russell also taught at Kent St ...

S SABRE. A 38-page trade paperback written by Don McGregor and illustrated by Paul Gulacy that was fi rst published in 1978, Sab ...