A review at the European Journal of American Studies offers the following summary:
Jeanne Emerson Gardner’s “‘Dreams May End, But Love Never Does:’ Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954” examines and confirms themes existing within the relatively neglected romance comics. While offering a plethora of summaries and commentaries, this article succeeds in showing how even romance comics, when read “against the grain” have a lot more meaning to offer towards topics such as post-war society, gender roles, domestic-gendered consumption than conventional readings would have us believe.
A review at the European Journal of American Studies offers the following summary: