YOUNG ROMANCE
Young Romance is a romantic comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics in 1947. Generally considered the first romance comic, the series ran for 124 consecutive issues under Prize imprint, and a further 84 (issues #125-208) published by DC Comics after Crestwood stopped producing comics.
Previous issues published by Prize/Headline and Non Distributed in the UK.
All issues of Young Romance published by DC were distributed in the U.K. at the time so were available as pence as well as cents copies although issues #125-135 were/are scarce in U.K. as pence copies.
Also, issues #197-204, although not scarce in the U.K. as pence copies, were/are less common.
Total value for all issues of this title listed:
| Condition |
PR 1.0 |
FR 1.5 |
GD 2.0 |
VG 4.0 |
FN 6.0 |
VF 8.0 |
VF/NM 9.0 |
NM- 9.2 |
NM 9.4 |
MINT 10.0 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 84 | ||
| Total £ | 41.80 | 82.75 | 121.00 | 249.00 | 506.24 | 999.29 | 1,990 | 2,480 | 2,980 | Total title value in pounds in UK markets | |
| Total $ | 105.00 | 207.00 | 304.00 | 623.40 | 1,260.00 | 2,500.00 | 4,970 | 6,220 | 7,460 | Total title value in dollars in US markets |
Note: some PR issues may have no value. Selected issues in FN, VF or VF/NM may not exist in some titles.
