Off-beat stories abound in this celebration of the lurid and sometimes sleazy history of romance comic books. LOL romance comic book stories from the 1950s, '60s, and beyond! Punk rock star and graphic novelist Rebecca Sevrin introduces the LOL bizarro, lurid, and loony romance comic book stories! Your jaw will drop over the WTH wacky pulp fiction with... COMMIES in "Iron Curtain Romance!" KOOKY TEENAGERS hot for teacher in "Too Young for Love!" SWINGERS in the appropriately titled "Swingers!" AND the cover story "SO THIS IS LOVE!" Twenty mind-blowing stories in all, plus a cover gallery!
Bullet points:
• "Some of the, yes, weirdest comics ever produced were the 'true love' and 'young romance'' comics of the 1950s and '60s. Enter Yoe and wife Gussoni who have restored some of the most bizarre tales in the THE MUST-READ REPRINT BOOK OF THE YEAR, Weird Love."—USA Today
• Advance solicited for November release!
Weird Love: So This is Love
Edited by Craig Yoe and Clizia Gussoni • Various (a & c)
HC • FC • $29.99 • 160 pages • 7.5" x 9.75" • ISBN: 978-1-68405-020-8
