The resurgence of romance in comics, literal turntable wizardry, and a meeting of four iterations of Gallifrey’s pre-eminent phonebox-dweller
In the 1940s, romance comics were big business, offering emotionally heightened but chaste tales of young love and providing a valuable training ground for legends such as Marvel mascot Stan Lee and Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. By the 1960s, superheroes had started to muscle in on the market, beginning their long, unstoppable march to cultural dominance, but it turns out there’s still an appetite for comics where most of the excitement comes from characters hitting on each other rather than just hitting.
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