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| Publication | December 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Credits per Nick Caputo, March 2014. |
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| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: man; two women |
| Notes | Credits per Nick Caputo, March 2014. |
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| Advertisement | Amazing New Mickey Mouse Hand Puppets (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Editing | ? (ad agency) |
| Content | Characters: Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Thumper; Donald Duck; Idiot; Jimmy |
| Notes | Inside front cover mail order ad for Disney hand puppets from Rubber-for-Molds, Inc., Dept. 349-S, 6044 Avondale Avenue, Chicago 31, Illinois. Ad has three panels of sequential art with word balloons. |
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| Comic Story | I Was the Wholesome Type (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Penny is overshadowed in high school by her more glamorous sister Gail. Bob prefers Gail but she doesn’t believe him. Penny substitutes a photo of herself for Gail in a contest entry and Gail loses as a result: but this prevents her from eloping with Greg and going to Hollywood, so it’s a good thing. Bob figures it out and says he loves Penny as she is. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Greg Grissom; Penny Hulbert; Gail Hulbert; Bob; Mr. Hulbert; Mrs. Hulbert |
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| Comic Story | I Must Forget Eileen (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pilots Steve and Bart compete for the affections of airline hostess Eileen. She chooses Bart but Steve, suffering from an old war wound, goes insane and says he’ll kill them both. After a struggle in which Steve is killed, Bart flees to Brazil and takes a dangerous job with a small company. He’s asked to fly a doctor to the scene of an airliner crash and discovers Eileen is there. She says Steve didn’t die, and is recovering in a sanatorium. Bart and Eileen reconcile. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Eileen; Bart Leonard; Steve; Gregg Sanders; Pepe |
| Notes | Same story re-used as "Flight From Love" in Darling Romance (1949 series) (Archie) #3 (January-February 1950). The ending is very slightly changed. |
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| Comic Story | Do You Think You Own Me? (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vin breaks up with Kitty because she is too controlling. He goes to see Sally, an old girlfriend now working as a doctor’s receptionist. She’s engaged to someone else and when Vin complains about Kitty’s possessiveness, Sally says all women are that way but they don’t all show it. Vin realises he loves Kitty: he goes home and they decide to elope. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Sally; Vin; Kitty; Elmer; Kitty's mother |
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| Comic Story | I Judged a Book by Its Cover (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Elaine is bored with her small-town life and small-town boyfriend Larry. She falls in love with newcomer Brad, but she discovers Brad is a reporter who tracked down her father and now uses Elaine’s information to write a story about a 15-year-old scandal. Although Dr. Warren was cleared of wrongdoing then, the townspeople criticize the doctor until Brad stands up and defends him. Elaine realizes Larry is the man for her. |
| Credits | Letters: Leroy lettering |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Brad Forester; Elaine Warren; Larry Davis; Dr. William Warren; Sam |
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| Text Story | No Place to Hide (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dierdre, who came from a humble childhood, has embellished her past in order to win the love of wealthy Charles Delford. Constance, her rival for Charles, sets a trap to expose the many untruths and embarrass her before Charles. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Mama Riveaux; Papa Riveaux; Charles Delford; Dierdre Cummings; Constance Allerton; Mrs. Delford |
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| Comic Story | I Tried to Build a Fence Around My Love (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Secretary Lynn loves her boss, lawyer Martin, but he becomes angry when she tries to make him take high-paying clients rather than helping the indigent. When the son of Martin’s old friends is hit by a car driven by gangster Big Tim, Lynn sees that poor people need legal representation as well as the rich. Martin wins the case and asks Lynn to change jobs: she’ll be his wife instead of his secretary. |
| Credits | Letters: Leroy lettering |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Martin Darrell; Lynn Shearer; Mack; Ma Burns; Mr. Burns; Tommy Burns; Big Tim Paur |
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| Comic Story | I Lied to Myself About Men (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Art student Joan flirts with many young men to compensate for the affection her father didn’t give her as a child, but she refuses to get serious for fear of being hurt. She falls in love with composer Frank but he plays hard to get and she sees him with other women. Frank finally admits he heard of Joan’s reputation and wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine. Joan and Frank will be married. |
| Credits | Letters: Leroy lettering |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Joan Blythe; Mr. Blythe; Bob; Carol; Jimmie Clark; Frank Gill; Martha Wayne; Margie Gill |
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| Advertisement | What You Can Do About Pimples (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations);? (photograph) | Inks:? (illustrations);? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Editing | ? (ad agency) |
| Notes | Mail order ad for skin treatment from Dornol Products, Inc., Dept. 3712-C, 4257 Katonah Avenue, New York 66, New York. |
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| Advertisement | New Silk-finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-tooled Frame (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Editing | ? (ad agency) |
| Notes | Mail order ad for photographic enlargements from Hollywood Film Studios, Dept. 7902, 1227 Loyola Avenue, Chicago 26, Illinois. |
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| Advertisement | 10-Piece Knife Set (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Editing | ? (ad agency) |
| Notes | Inside back cover mail order ad for a kitchen knife set from Niresk Industries, Dept. FD, 1474 West Hubbard Street, Chicago 22, Illinois. |
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| Advertisement | Special... Introductory Offer (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Editing | ? (ad agency) |
| Content | Characters: John; woman; man |
| Notes | Back cover mail order ad with sequential panel art for a cigarette case and lighter from H & S Sales Company, Dept. 349S, 1665 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 47, Illinois. |
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