Young Romance is a romantic comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics in 1947. Generally considered the first romance comic, the series ran for 124 consecutive issues under Prize imprint, and a further 84 published by DC Comics after Crestwood stopped producing comics.
Young Romance #1 (Sept. 1947), art by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby.
Young Romance #15 (Nov. 1949), with photographic cover.
Young Romance #67 (March 1954), featuring the "Prize Group" seal; cover art by Jack Kirby and John Prentice.
Young Romance #125 (Aug. 1963), DC Comics' first issue; cover artist(s) uncredited.
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
Simon with a fan at the 2006 New York Comic Con
1974 Comic Art Convention program, reprinting Simon's original 1940 sketch of Captain America.