Gay Heart Throbs

Gay Heart Throbs was an underground comic featuring gay erotica.

The short-lived comic struggled to find an audience.

It has been compared to the more successful and influential Gay Comix, which debuted in 1980 and opted for more emotionally nuanced content, as opposed to the "campy erotica" of Gay Heart Throbs.

[3] The title is thought to be a reference to Heart Throbs, a romance comic published from 1949 to 1972.

[5] Though already known as an underground filmmaker, Gay Heart Throbs was Kuchar's first job as an illustrator, and he was contacted for many more jobs involving erotic illustration on the strength of his work on the comic.

Cover of second issue, illustrated by Mike Kuchar .