Young Romance: The Early Simon & Kirby, Vol. 2 dives into the golden age of comic book love — a time when Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were shaping an entire genre from scratch. This collection gathers more of their groundbreaking work from the late 1940s and early ’50s, when romance comics ruled the racks and readers devoured tales of heartbreak, hope, and second chances.
What makes this volume shine is the raw emotional storytelling — women torn between passion and duty, soldiers returning home to uncertain love, and the kind of dramatic panels only Kirby could draw. It’s melodrama done with muscle, full of lush inks and moral tension, capturing postwar America’s shifting ideas of love and independence.
More than nostalgia, The Early Simon & Kirby Romance 2 is a time capsule of pulp emotion and sharp visual storytelling, proving that even before superheroes took over, Kirby and Simon were already making ordinary human stories feel epic.
