| Additional Information |
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| Publication | May 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month |
| Notes | Art identification confirmed by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Cover recreates a scene from the story "Scandal-Smeared Love" inside the comic. |
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| Cover | Scandal-Smeared Love |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Avison | Inks: Al Avison | Letters: Joe Rosen |
| Content | Characters: Carol Granville; Ted Rader; Lorna Murdock |
| Notes | Art identification confirmed by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Cover recreates a scene from the story "Scandal-Smeared Love" inside the comic. |
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| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
| Notes | Contains small reprints of the first page of each story. |
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| Comic Story | Scandal-Smeared Love (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Newspaper photographer Lorna threatens to ruin the reputation of Ted’s skating rink unless he sells out to her boss Bill Brown. The paper publishes a photo of Ted kissing his fiancée Carol and claims the rink is an unwholesome place for teens. Ted secretly tape records Brown making his threats and blackmails him into apologizing and even supporting Ted’s business. |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Avison | Inks: Al Avison |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Carol Granville; Ted Rader; Lorna Murdock; Bill Brown |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Text Story | Mad Flirtation (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Sparling | Inks: Jack Sparling | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Previous indexer suggested Bob Powell ? for pencils and inks. |
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| Comic Story | He Loved Me Not (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Florist Laurie-Ann is in love with regular customer Ken, but refuses to respond to his romantic advances because she thinks he’s sending flowers to another woman. Ken explains that the “other woman” is the widow of “a dead Army buddy of mine!” and he really loves Laurie-Ann. |
| Credits | Pencils: Joe Certa? | Inks: Joe Certa? |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Laurie-Ann; Ken Brill |
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| Text Story | In Love With a Married Man! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Part of the centerfold with "Strange Romantic Customs" and "Torch for the Wrong Guy." |
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| Comic Story | Strange Romantic Customs (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Romance |
| Notes | Part of the centerfold straddling two pages and sandwiched between two half-page text stories, "In Love With a Married Man!" and "Torch for the Wrong Guy." |
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| Text Story | Torch for the Wrong Guy |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Part of the centerfold with "In Love With a Married Man!" and "Strange Romantic Customs." |
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| Comic Story | Choose Well, My Heart! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Susan and Jeff are in love, but can’t get married until he earns his engineering degree. She doesn’t want to wait. One day, Susan is struck by wealthy Tony’s car but not seriously injured. They begin to date and Susan dumps Jeff. However, when Susan suffers a delayed reaction from the crash, Tony says “I don’t want a cripple on my hands!” and she breaks up with him. Jeff returns and offers to marry Susan right away, but she is now happy to wait until he graduates. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Susan Parker; Mrs. Parker; Jeff Thompson; Harkins; Tony Wayde; Dr. Thompson |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. coined this unknown artist's style as "Juv-Elias". |
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| Letters Page | Your Problem |
| Credits | Script: "Nancy Powers" | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Pencils: Lee Elias | Inks: Lee Elias |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | House ad for True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #13 with a small reproduction of the cover. |
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| Comic Story | Tragic Awakening (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Peggy drops out of high school and gets a factory job. She finds her new freedom fun at first, but when college student Ted interviews her for a project, he is shocked that she voluntarily left school and Peggy begins to regret her actions. Peggy dates Ted but feels he looks down on her and goes back to her factory boyfriend Mac. However, Ted explains he does love Peggy and urges her to return to school so they can have a better life together. She agrees. |
| Credits | Pencils: Tom Hickey | Inks: Tom Hickey |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Peggy; Miss Stevens; Mac; Toni; Ted Mills |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Bob Powell ? for pencils and inks. |
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