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| Publication | May 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Disillusioned! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Disillusioned (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mavis is engaged to Ed, city editor at a newspaper. She gets a job as a cub reporter so she can understand his devotion to his work. Her inexperience causes her to inadvertently derail Ed’s plan to learn where a gangster has hidden his loot, but Mavis makes up for it by locating the money herself. She then resigns her job to devote herself to marriage. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Mavis Blake; Ed Hampton; Mr. Doane; Sugar Robb; Mike Cassidy |
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| Comic Story | Misguided Motive (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sally, who supports her ailing mother, is engaged to accountant Don, but finds him boring. She is more attracted to race driver Ted. Sally’s mother needs an expensive operation but Don is reluctant to pay the bill; Ted, on the other hand, mortgages his race car to enter a race, gambling that he’ll win enough money to help Sally. Ted wrecks his car but wins the race and will marry Sally. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Don Ryan; Dr. Dane; Mrs. Stevens; Sally Stevens; Ted Wagner |
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| Comic Story | Hoop-La Heartache (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sally’s father has a heart attack so she has to operate his carnival game. Local mayor McKay feels all carnies are crooks, but his son Dan is attracted to Sally. A hurricane approaches and Dan offers Sally and her father shelter at his house. Dan’s little sister Pat contracts appendicitis and requires an operation but the hospital can’t be reached. Sally has the carnival workers bring a generator to the McKay house so the doctor can operate. Dan’s father changes his opinion and Dan proposes marriage to Sally. |
| Credits | Pencils: W. G. Hargis? | Inks: Sid Greene? |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Sally Blanding; Mr. Blanding; Dan McKay; Mayor Arnold McKay; Pat McKay; Sam Stark; Dr. Brown |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Blackmailer (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | By threatening radio station manager Dean with evidence of his philandering, Cora blackmails her way into a job as assistant to radio broadcaster Bruce. Bruce and Cora fall in love, but Dean says he’ll tell Bruce about her scheme unless she helps ruin a competitor by exposing an old scandal. Cora can’t go through with it; Bruce admits he knew how she got her job, but he loves her anyway. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Cora Brett; Madge Culp; Bill Harley; Bruce Kelland; Mr. Dean |
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| Synopsis | House ad for "Diary Loves" comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Illustration | Dresses For That Special Occasion (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Our selection of little dresses for big evenings." Five illustrations of dresses, shoes, and a blouse, with descriptive text. |
| Content | Genre: Fashion; Romance |
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| Text Story | Deceitful Darling (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | My Heart's in the Hills (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Would-be actress Susan wants the leading role in a “hillbilly” film produced by Reiner, but he rejects her. She travels to Tennessee and impersonates a real mountain girl and is given the part. She becomes famous but Reiner, admitting he knew about her scam, tries to blackmail her into becoming his mistress. Susan refuses and returns to Tennessee and her new love, Thad. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Susan Rogers; Dolly Evans; Carl Reiner; Granny Harding; Dr. Thaddeus R. Harding |
| Notes | Carl Reiner (1945-2020) was an actor, writer and director who was active on Broadway and television at the time this story was published but was hardly a household name. It's possible the name is just a coincidence, or perhaps an in-joke by the scripter of this story. The Reiner character in the story does not resemble the real Carl Reiner physically. |
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| Advertisement | Quality Romance Patterns (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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