Young Romance #184 (1972) page 8: Daddy's money

A rich girl runs away, hides her past, and falls in love with a starving playwright. She's ready to help him financially. But in his drawer, she finds a newspaper article about her inheritance. Is he only after her for the money?

It's marked as page nine at the top, but page eight at the bottom; I guess there was a page of advertisements in there somewhere. Dig their hip early 70s fashions and posters. Barbara has a matching short suit, while her dude wears button-fly jeans. That must be a lamp on the table in panel one. It disappears in subsequent panels. Where did it go, Vinnie?

After World War Two, superhero comics suffered a severe decline in sales. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby originated the Young Romance series, generally considered the first in that genre, with first person stories of love and heartbreak. It was an instant hit for Prize Comics and ran for decades, switching to DC comics for its last several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by which time superhero and monster comics were dominating the field.