Comics in the Curriculum

Gender and Sexuality > Modern Love

Modern love. [Various] ca. 1950.

Butler PN6728.M63 M63 1995

Romance comics were enormously popular in the 1950s and the stories they told reinforced the traditional social roles of the sexes.  Good girls and bad girls were clearly delineated, and you could always tell if a man were Mr. Right or Mr. Wrong.

 

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