Romance comics is a genre of comic books that were most popular during the Golden Age of Comics. The market for comics, which had been growing rapidly throughout the 1940s, began to plummet after the
Young Romance #1 (Oct. 1947) launched the genre. Cover art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
The first issue of Fox Feature Syndicate's My Life (Sept. 1948) was the third romance comic book title on the newsstands following Crestwood's Young Romance and Timely/Marvel's My Romance.
Violet A. Barclay, who also worked under the name Valerie Barclay and the married name Valerie Smith, was an American illustrator best known as one of the pioneering female comic-book artists, having
Barclay panels from a 1954 issue of Ace Periodicals' Complete Love Magazine