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| Publication | August 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Hidden Love (6 pages) |
| Editing | ? (original editor) |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Tomorrow Is Ours (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Anne is engaged to Pete, a “sandhog” (tunnel worker) who is studying to become a supervisor. Bored, Anne starts dating Pete’s roommate Tony. When Pete finds out, he breaks up with her, and Tony also dumps Anne because he only wanted “some fun.” Pete is promoted. He enters a tunnel after a cave-in to rescue the trapped Tony for Anne’s sake. When the two men emerge, Anne says it is Pete she loves and they reconcile. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Pete Travis; Tony Ross; Anne |
| Notes | Essentially the same plot was used for “Repentant Bride” in Heart Throbs (Quality, 1949 series) 6 (June 1950) and "Second Love" in Heart and Soul (Mikeross Publications, 1954 Series) 1 (April-May 1954). |
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| Comic Story | The Wedding Dress (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Meg and Tom are young, passionately in love and planning to marry. Then he joins the army to fight in Korea. Meg wants to marry immediately, but Tom says they should wait. Months later, the news comes that Tom is wounded. He returns crippled and changed, affected by what he's been through. Tom breaks up with Meg, saying she needs someone who will be a husband, not a burden, but Meg loves him and doesn't care. It takes Meg's Grandma telling the story of her own wounded husband and long marriage to convince Tom to change his mind. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Meg; Tom Gale; Virginia Tabor (Meg's grandma); Seth Tabor (Virginia's husband) |
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| Text Story | Love Letter to Five Million (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Featuring | Women and Wit |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | To Have and to Hold (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Former mechanic Hal is recently graduated as a doctor when his fiance Kathy turns up with a burst appendix. With other doctors away, Hal must operate but Kathy dies. Hal abandons medicine and becomes a mechanic with a traveling carnival. A year later, Judy falls for Hal and, when a man tries to rape her, he intervenes. Judy is hit by a bullet intended in revenge for Hal, and he must again operate on a woman he loves. The operation is a success and, after the wedding, he returns to being a doctor. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Hal; Kathy; Doctor Kenton; 'Old man Morse'; Judy |
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| Comic Story | Love's Fighting Heart (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Washed-up boxer Slugger takes on Rocky as his protege. Rocky falls for Slugger’s daughter Ellen, but she is jealous of his rapport with her father. To ruin his career, she tells Rocky she’ll marry him if he makes a lot of money, so he goes against Slugger’s advice and accepts too many bouts. Rocky learns her scheme and leaves. When Ellen sees him later, she apologizes and says she loves him regardless. Rocky wins his last fight, retires from boxing, buys a gas station, and will marry Ellen. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Slugger Keyes; Ellen Keyes; Ronald "Rocky" Steele; Mike |
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| Comic Story | Deadline for Love (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Foreign correspondent Carol loves Roger, head of her paper’s Athens bureau, but is sent to the Greek-Romanian border for an extended period. On his way to visit Carol, Roger is captured by bandit Georgio. Carol helps Roger escape and Georgio is caught. Carol resigns her job to marry Roger. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Roger Mason; Carol Higby; Nick; Georgio |
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