Lovers’ Lane

    (Lev Gleason, 1949-1954)
©1952 Lev Gleason Publications, Inc.

Lovers’ Lane was a rarity: a romance comic with enough action and adventure to attract and keep a male audience. Lev Gleason, the publisher, borrowed heavily from the formula behind his successful Crime Must Pay the Penalty in order to make this series work.

Begun in 1949, and running up until the coming of the Comics Code Authority in 1954, Lovers’ Lane was full of desperate women, deceit, treachery, crime, and violence. This was a heady mix for the relatively tame world of romance comics, and it gave Lovers’ Lane a definite edge. It also was innovative in its occasional use of longer, multi-issue storylines wherein the romance was part of a larger adventure or crime saga. Of course, it also carried the obligatory advice column (“Eloise Taylor Answers Your Love Problems”), which even received an occasional letter from a male reader.
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  • 1
    #1
    Oct 1949
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    A: Bill Overgard
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    #2
    Dec 1949
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    A: Bob Lubbers
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    #3
    Feb 1950
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    A: Bob Lubbers
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    #4
    Apr 1950
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    W: Jerry Courtland, Barbara Bates  ·  A: Fred Kida, Ruth Atkinson, Jerry Grandenetti, Bob Fujitani, Bill Walton
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    #5
    Jun 1950
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #6
    Aug 1950
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    A: Fred Kida, George Tuska
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    #7
    Oct 1950
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #8
    Dec 1950
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #9
    Feb 1951
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    A: Ruth Atkinson
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    #10
    Mar 1951
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    A: Al McWilliams
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    #11
    Apr 1951
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    A: Ruth Atkinson
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    #12
    May 1951
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #13
    Jun 1951
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #14
    Jul 1951
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    A: Ruth Atkinson
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    #15
    Aug 1951
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    A: Lee J. Ames
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    #16
    Sep 1951
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    A: Bob Fujitani
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    #17
    Oct 1951
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #18
    Nov 1951
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #19
    Dec 1951
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    A: Fred Kida
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    #20
    Jan 1952
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    A: Bob Fujitani
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    #21
    Feb 1952
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    A: Al McWilliams
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    #22
    Mar 1952
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    A: Al McWilliams
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    #23
    Apr 1952
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    A: Myron Fass, Kenneth Landau, Sid Greene, Joan Wenzel, Bill Walton
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    #24
    May 1952
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    A: Ruth Atkinson
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    #25
    Jun 1952
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    A: Al Wenzel
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    #26
    Jul 1952
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    A: Ruth Atkinson
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    #27
    Aug 1952
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    A: Al Wenzel
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    #28
    Sep 1952
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    A: Frank W. Bolle
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    #29
    Oct 1952
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    A: Frank W. Bolle
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    #30
    Nov 1952
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    A: Frank W. Bolle, Ralph Owen
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    #31
    Dec 1952
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    A: Ralph Owen, Little Al
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    #32
    Jan 1953
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    A: Al Wenzel, Ralph Owen
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    #33
    Feb 1953
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    A: Dick Rockwell, Al Bare
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    #34
    Apr 1953
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    A: Robert Martinott
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    #35
    Jun 1953
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    A: Robert Martinott
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    #36
    Aug 1953
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    A: Al Wenzel
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    #37
    Oct 1953
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    A: Al Wenzel
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    #38
    Dec 1953
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    W: Bill Woolfolk, Eloise Taylor  ·  A: Al Wenzel, Jay Scott Pike, Robert Martinott
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    #39
    Photo cover by Bill Walton
    Feb 1954
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    A: Bill Walton
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    #40
    Photo cover by Fred Kida
    Apr 1954
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    A: George Tuska
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    #41
    Photo cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler
    Jun 1954
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    A: Carl Pfeufer
    Final Issue
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