Geraint Romances associated with the "Mabinogion". Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's "Erec and Enide". Some scholars feel both works derived from a common lost source, but most believe the Welsh version derives directly or indirectly from Chrétien. In this case, the renowned figure of Geraint would have been added to the story to suit Welsh audiences unfamiliar with Chrétien's protagonist, Erec. "Geraint and Enid" was reworked by Alfred Tennyson into the poems "The Marriage of Geraint" and "Geraint and Enid", part of his "Idylls of the King". The Arthurian character in later works is often referred
Young Romance the first appearance of comic books, romance only had a token presence in their four-color pages". This changed in 1947 with the return from war of one of comics' earliest and best-known creative partnerships, that of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had already created Captain America, the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion. Working for Hillman Periodicals, the two created a "teen-humor comic book called "My Date"", cover-dated March 1947, which contained within its pages "ground-breaking" stories concerned with "comparatively faithful depictions of teen-age life, centering especially on romantic experiences and aspirations." Arguably itself the first "romance comic," positive