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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#26

July, 1952
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $50.00 		  
#41 (Photo cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler)

June, 1954
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $194.99