 Leslie Waller with his co-author Arnold Drake are credited with having written the first graphic novel, "It Rhymes with Lust".It was their idea to pitch a new idea, the "picture novel", a bridge between comic books and "book books", to St John, the publisher who released "It Rhymes with Lust".Originally published in 1950, the graphic novel was rereleased by Dark Horse Comics in the Spring of 2007.