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| Date | | Number: 8 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Today's Romance 8 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Indexed from scanned copy at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 251. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Comic Story | Bewitched (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | June, who thinks she’s “homely,” goes on a fly-fishing vacation to New England. She meets vacationing artist Peter, who says June has “an inferiority complex” because she’s tall. He also denigrates fishing as a sport. They fall in love and June blossoms, but spiteful Leslie says Peter changed “an ugly duckling into a beauty” on a bet. June leaves. Peter finally tracks her down months later at a “sportsmans show,” says Leslie lied, and they reconcile. |
| Job # | R-676 |
| Genre | Romance |
| Characters | June Smith; Caleb Jordan; Mrs. Jordan; Peter Warner; Leslie Carter |
| Comic Story | Answer My Love (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jean grew up with “impetuous” Bill and “dependable” Ed. She likes Ed but Bill “is so much fun!” and accepts his marriage proposal. Bill doesn’t show up on their wedding day and Jean asks Ed to marry her and he does. Bill returns later and asks to talk to Jean, but the car they’re riding in is involved in an accident. Bill leaves town but Ed finds out. Jean fears he’ll leave her, but Ed still loves her and Jean knows she made the right choice. |
| Job # | R-625 |
| Genre | Romance |
| Characters | Jean; Bill Furness; Ed Murrow |
| Text Story | The Luck of a Corporal (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Romance |
| Script | Margaret Isbell |
| Comic Story | Dial L-O-V-E (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A young woman lives in a small town with a “party line” telephone system. She talks to Ted on the phone and they meet and fall in love. However, she later hears Ted’s voice speaking in a romantic manner to someone else on the telephone and is upset. Ted explains that his brother Bill sounds just like him and Bill was talking to his girlfriend. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Characters | Ted; "Sweet" |
| Pencils | Vernon Greene |
| Inks | Vernon Greene |
| Notes | Art credit from pencilled note on online scanned version: http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=65562 |
| Comic Story | Complimentary Yours (1 page) |
| Synopsis | “Some people just don’t know how to accept a compliment gracefully. All they do is make any sweet-talking friend feel like a fool.” |
| Genre | Romance |
| Characters | Edna; Gail; Randy |
| Pencils | Art Saaf |
| Inks | Art Saaf |
| Notes | Information on this sequence supplied by Steve Saaf and Jim Vadeboncouer, June 2008. |
| Comic Story | I Tricked My Heart (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roger proposes to his college sweetheart Sally, unaware she has been long planning revenge against his family. Her aunt Hattie was married to and then abandoned by Roger’s uncle Sam, leaving her “sick and penniless.” Hattie wants Sally to break Roger’s heart “the way his uncle broke mine!” Sally actually loves Roger and likes his family but is indebted to her aunt for raising her. She confesses the plot then learns the truth: Sam died in an auto accident or he would have returned to Hattie. Sally can now marry Roger. |
| Job # | R-663 |
| Genre | Romance |
| Characters | Sally Gillis; Roger Kinkaid; Aunt Hattie; Mrs. Kinkaid; Mr. Kinkaid |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
