Young Romance #150
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeYoung Romance #150 sits squarely within the long twilight of the romance-comics genre that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby had launched with the very first issue of this same title back in 1947 — a watershed moment that, as the DC Database notes, gave birth to the entire romance-comic genre. By issue #150, DC had already been stewarding the series for four years since acquiring it from Prize Publications in 1963, and the book's continued existence into the late Silver Age is itself a testament to the staying power of the format Simon and Kirby pioneered. The issue is also a showcase moment for Jay Scott Pike, whose expressive 'cry girl' cover — already widely circulated among collectors as a defining image of the DC romance line's visual identity — crystallises the emotionally charged aesthetic that defined DC romance comics of the era. As one of the longer-running anthology romance titles still on newsstands in 1967, Young Romance #150 is a concrete artifact of the genre's determination to survive even as superhero books reasserted cultural dominance.
In "The Most Wonderful Boy in the World!", Janie holds out hope for love despite warnings that men can't be trusted—until she meets Peter, who seems too good to be true. But when she catches him kissing another girl, her dream of romance takes a sudden, painful turn. Jay Scott Pike handles both the interior art and cover, bringing the emotional highs and lows of young love to life with expressive detail.
Joan thought she’d found romance in the city’s bright lights, trying out one date after another—none quite right. But when she returns home, she discovers something unexpected: the most wonderful boy in the world might have been there all along.
In "Can Any Man Really Be Trusted?", Janie, determined to believe in love despite the warnings around her, finds herself drawn to Peter—until a shocking moment shatters her hopes. As their budding romance takes an unexpected turn, she’s left questioning everything she thought she knew.
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Young Romance was originally created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Crestwood/Prize Publications in 1947, with the duo remaining central to the title's production for its first five years. The series ran continuously for 124 issues under the Prize imprint before DC Comics acquired it in 1963 and continued numbering from issue #125 onward. By 1967, DC's romance editorial apparatus — led by editor Jack Miller with associate editor Barbara Friedlander — had developed a stable roster of house artists, and Jay Scott Pike had become one of the most prolific contributors to the entire DC romance line, working across Young Romance and sister titles throughout the mid-1960s and into the early 1970s.
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- Cover art is by Jay Scott Pike, widely described in collector circles as a 'cry girl' cover — one of his most recognizable compositions for DC's romance line.
- Interior art credits (per GoCollect and League of Comic Geeks) include Tony Abruzzo, John Romita Sr., Win Mortimer, Sy Barry, with inking by Jack Abel and John Rosenberger, and lettering by Ira Schnapp and Milt Snapinn.
- Edited by Jack Miller (the primary editor of DC's romance titles in this era) with Barbara Friedlander as associate editor.
- Interior stories include 'Can Any Man Really Be Trusted?,' 'The Most Wonderful Boy in the World!,' and 'I'll Care for You!,' plus the recurring letters column hosted by the fictional romance reporter Laura Penn.
- The issue also contains a feature on Rebecca Alkire, winner of the 1967 Miss American Teen-Ager pageant at Palisades Amusement Park, and a two-page fashion spread titled 'Mad Mad Modes for Moderns: What a Ginchy Idea!' — a recurring feature produced by Jay Scott Pike during his DC tenure.
- Young Romance as a series holds the distinction of being the first romance comic book, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1947; this issue appears at #150 of a continuous run that originated at Crestwood/Prize before DC acquired it in 1963, making it the 26th DC-published issue in the title's sequence.
- Jay Scott Pike (1924–2015), whose cover defines this issue's visual identity, was a prolific 'good girl' artist who worked across the entire DC romance stable in the mid-to-late 1960s, and whose DC work also included creating the character Dolphin in Showcase #79 (1968).
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↩ Reprints Falling in Love #11 (1957)
Reprinted in Heart to Heart Romance Library #143 (1970), Falling in Love #130 (1972), Young Love #111 (1974), Young Love #112 (1974), Young Romance #202 (1974), Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics #[nn] (1979), Susy #766
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