Falling in Love was the first romance title that DC Comics launched during the Comics Code era. The title began seven months after the publisher started using the Code seal with issues that hit the newsstand in January 1955.
Joining regular DC Comics romance series Girls' Love Stories Girls' Romances, and Secret Hearts on the stands at that time, Falling in Love joined a comic book romance market that had surprisingly been little affected by the Comics Code in the early going. Just over 200 comic books hit the stands that month, and over 30 of these were romance titles.
It was sad, and you couldn't do anything about that. I mean you just could say go to your preacher, go to your advisor, your school advisor and you really couldn't get into their lives. It was not done. But Jack, he would sit there make up the letters, sometimes, because you didn't get one that you could actually print. They'd send you, 'Can I wear a red dress and blue pink shoes?' You had to do it so that it was not destructive, or it was generic and sweet.
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