Heart Throbs

Heart Throbs
Heart Throbs #1 (Aug. 1949). Artist unknown.
Publication information
Publisher	Quality Comics DC Comics
Schedule	varied: Bimonthly and 8x/year
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Romance
Publication date(s)	Aug. 1949 – Oct. 1972
No. of issues	146
Creative team
Written by	Bob Kanigher, Barbara Friedlander
Artist(s)	Jay Criton, Gene Colan, Ogden Whitney, Mort Drucker, John Romita, Sr., Win Mortimer, John Rosenberger
Penciller(s)	John Forte, Jay Scott Pike
Inker(s)	Vince Colletta, Bernard Sachs, Gene Colan, Russ Jones, Tony DeZuniga
Letterer(s)	Ira Schnapp, Gaspar Saladino
Editor(s)	Whitney Ellsworth, Phyllis Reed, L.M. Nadle, Jack Miller, Barbara Friedlander, Joe Orlando, Dorothy Woolfolk
Collected editions
Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics	ISBN

Heart Throbs was a romance comic published by Quality Comics and DC Comics from 1949 to 1972. Quality published the book from 1949–1957, when it was acquired by DC. Most issues featured a number of short comics stories, as well advice columns, text pieces, and filler. The long-running feature "3 Girls—Their Lives—Their Loves," drawn by Jay Scott Pike and inked by Russ Jones, ran in Heart Throbs from 1966–1970.

In addition to Pike and Jones, regular contributors to Heart Throbs during its run included Bob Kanigher, Barbara Friedlander, Jay Criton, Gene Colan, John Romita, Sr., John Forte, Vince Colletta, Bernard Sachs, Win Mortimer, John Rosenberger, and Tony DeZuniga.

Quality Comics published 46 issues of Heart Throbs from Aug. 1949–Dec. 1956. Many early issues featured photographic covers. The company closed in 1956, selling most of its assets to National Periodical Publications (now known as DC Comics).

With its acquisition of Heart Throbs, DC continued its numbering, the first issue being #47 (Apr./May 1957). The company published 100 issues of Hearth Throbs, until #146 (Oct. 1972).

With issue #147 (Nov. 1972), DC changed the title of the book to Love Stories, publishing six more issues before cancelling the comic for good with issue #152 (Oct./Nov. 1973).

In 1979, Fireside Books published Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics, which featured many stories from the pages of Heart Throbs.