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As we head towards Valentine's Day, ComicsAlliance is offering up a daily tribute to love, as depicted in the somewhat dubious world of Romance Comics! Today's entry: Young Romance #86's "For The Love of Ricky Wilson!" This Stan Lee/Jack Kirby "classic" finds our heroine swooning and lovestruck, which was pretty much the default state for girls in romance comics...

I don't think I'm overstating things when I say that I'm a pretty big fan of Jack Kirby, the legendary artist who co-created Captain America, Thor, the Avengers, the Marvel Universe, romance comics, and... well, pretty much everything in modern comic books except the staples...

Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of Internet readers have to say. That's why every week, Senior Writer Chris Sims puts his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions...

Joe Simon, the comic book writer, artist and editor best-known as the co-creator of Captain America, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Rochester, New York-born Simon began working in the just-emerging field of comic books in 1939, the dawn of the Golden Age, after first working for several New York newspapers and for Paramount Pictures in New York...

As if there wasn't enough suffering in the world already, Bluewater Productions announced today that the latest addition to their line of biographical comics would be about the legendary King of Comics, Jack Kirby. Featuring a script by John Judy that promises to only feature dialogue in the form of direct quotes from the people involved and art by Paul Cox, the illustrated biography is due out i

This week, we got our first look at the New 52 version of one of the greatest villains in comics history, Darkseid. The unquestioned master of Apokolips only appears in shadows in the new Justice League #3 itself, but he's going to be rocking an all-new costume that's far more complex than his old look...

Those following Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Justice League have known for awhile that Darkseid would rear his craggy head in the relaunched series, and now DC's The Source blog has a page from the flagship title's fourth issue giving readers a glimpse of the lord of Apokolips' "New 52" redesign...

TV: AMC has let loose more bloody footage from season two of The Walking Dead. Museums: The Jack Kirby Museum seeks to open to the public within the coming year, pending more funding. Reviews: Atomic Sleepwalker averages New 52 reviews from several comic book sites, including ours at CA...

Thudding onto shelves everywhere this week is Kamandi Omnibus Volume 1, a hardcover collection of the first twenty issues of Jack Kirby's massive post-apocalyptic epic adventure. Under-appreciated in its time, the classic series has a chance to find a new audience thanks to Kamandi's recent appearances in Wednesday Comics, Countdown, and Final Crisis...

A few months ago, I received an email from a ComicsAlliance reader who was wondering why super-hero comics didn't have cover blurbs anymore. I've been thinking it over ever since, and I've got to admit that I'm stumped. Somewhere in the past two decades, loading up a comic book cover with boxes full of hype fell out of fashion...