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| (1) The colour palette on the interior stories is quite limited (heavy on red and green). Curiously, the other issues of this title (before and after) had "normal" colour printing.
(2) Two of the stories in this issue have a weird lettering style: the dialogue in the balloons has quotes around it.
(3)"Built for Love" (story #3) has several cheesecake drawings inserted into the story. |
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| Boy you weren't kidding about the cheesecake in the "Built for Love" story! Dang! (Not that there's anything wrong with that...) |
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I puzzled over the color in this book. Comic books used black plus tints of red, yellow, and blue to create its limited color pallet.
A common printing error was not printing one of the colors--for example, forgetting the red plate would make faces print yellow (white skin was typically a light yellow overlaid with a tint of red). At first I thought that in this book the printer forgot the yellow plate. But then there shouldn't be any greens (blue+yellow), and there are plenty of greens here
My theory is that for some reason Charlton chose to use a dark grey-green ink instead of blue. I'm guessing that the color in the background of page 6, panel 2 is the 100% shade. They also omitted the yellow plate, resulting in the comic's weird color scheme.
The only flaw with this theory is that the first three pages and two random interior pages do have the yellow plate. Comics were printed on large sheets, four pages on each side. These were folded in quarters, stapled, and trimmed to make 32 pages. For this reason printing errors generally show up on four pages at a time and are mirrored...e.g. a missing plate on page 1 will also be missing on page 32. This comic doesn't follow that rule.
What's left? That Charlton had a few barrels of weird green ink lying around and, being cheapskates, used it instead of blue; then somehow their printer forgot to make yellow films for 29 of the pages? Strange things happened at Derby, Connecticut. I'd love to hear other opinions. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July-August 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? [as Globe Photos, Incorporated] (photograph) | Inks:? [as Globe Photos, Incorporated] (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Odd Facts of Romance (1 page) |
| Synopsis | 5 trivia facts about romance around the world. |
| Credits | Pencils: Art Gates (signed) | Inks: Art Gates (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Black and white. |
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| Comic Story | I Loved Unwisely (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Eve has long had a crush on Lance, but his philandering causes her to move away to the big city. She falls in love with author David but still has feelings for Lance. When Lance shows up and says he loves Eve, she realizes she doesn't care for him any more; she will marry David. |
| Credits | Pencils: Eleanore Claire (signed) | Inks: Eleanore Claire (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Eve; Lance Dickson; Andy; David Wallace |
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| Comic Story | I Left Love Behind (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Donna grows up on her father's ranch and loves Dan, but her aunt insists she move back East for an education. Donna meets wealthy Jock, older than her "by years," and they become friends. Dan shows up: he's appearing in a rodeo to earn money for his wedding. Donna goes home to nurse her father, who has had a stroke. He says he sold his ranch to Dan. Jock shows up: he loves Donna but knows she only loves Dan. Dan's story of a "wedding" was just to make Donna jealous. Dan and Donna will be married. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Donna; Dan Reed; Father; Aunt Ellen; Jock Colby |
| Notes | The dialogue in the balloons in this story has quotes around it. The text in captions does not. |
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| Comic Story | Built for Love (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jane meets Dan, who's building a house near her family home for his future wife Mary. However, Jane and Dan fall in love instead. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Dan Clark; Jane Roberts; Mr. Roberts; Mary |
| Notes | The dialogue in the balloons in this story has quotes around it. The text in captions does not.
There are several rather risque "cheesecake" drawings of Jane in this story (page 4 and 6). |
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| Text Story | Career Wife (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Three Loves Had I (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nurse Grace is torn between three lovers: salesman Freddie, doctor Don, and pilot Rod. |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Bell | Inks: Fred Bell |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Freddie Bell; Grace Mercer; Dr. Don Kent; Rod |
| Notes | This story appears to have been drawn by Fred Bell (who usually drew the "Trudy and Judy" fillers on the inside front covers of Charlton romance titles). It's probably an in-joke that one of the 3 male protagonists of the story is named "Freddie Bell." |
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