Gardner, Jeanne (2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128 Topic comics/manga sex/sexuality YA/teenage romance United States of America
Gardner, Jeanne (2012) "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102 Topic comics/manga sex/sexuality social/economic class Publishing YA/teenage romance United States of America