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| Publication | May 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | "Thrilling Confessions" banner across top of cover. Small print next to title reads "Combined with Romantic Hearts." Inset photo of Buddy Morrow, (b. 1919) an American trombonist and bandleader, best known for his early 1950s Billboard hits "Rose, Rose, I Love You" and "Night Train."
Cover artist is credited in Table of Contents inside front cover. |
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| Credits | Pencils: William Zeller |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | "Thrilling Confessions" banner across top of cover. Small print next to title reads "Combined with Romantic Hearts." Inset photo of Buddy Morrow, (b. 1919) an American trombonist and bandleader, best known for his early 1950s Billboard hits "Rose, Rose, I Love You" and "Night Train."
Cover artist is credited in Table of Contents inside front cover. |
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| Contents | Table of Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Table of Contents inside front cover lists complete contents with writer, artist credits for each story. |
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| Comic Story | One-Sided Love (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bandleader Buddy Morrow saves a young woman from drowning and helps her patch things up with her boyfriend. |
| Credits | Script: Ira Zweifach | Pencils: Bob Cohen (signed) | Inks: Bob Cohen (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Fern Whitmore; Hack Darrow; Buddy Morrow; Mr. Green |
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| Comic Story | Strictly Business! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Business executive Joan will lose a $50,000 inheritance unless she’s married within 30 days. She offers her employee Brad $10,000 to marry her, “all strictly business.” He agrees, but Joan falls in love with him and decides she can’t marry him for money. Brad says he actually loves her and his father is, in fact, the company’s biggest stockholder, so he’ll take her job after the wedding. |
| Credits | Script: Martin Smith | Pencils: Alvin Hollingsworth | Inks: Alvin Hollingsworth |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Joan Mason; Brad Carter; Mr. Pierce |
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| Comic Story | Heartless Flirt!! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lily moves to a small town and begins to work her way through the boys at her new high school, including those who already have girlfriends. She gets a reputation as a flirt and when one of the other girls tries to commit suicide after losing her boyfriend, Lily resolves “to make amends.” However, her reputation pursues her and eventually she and her parents have to move and “start again somewhere else!” She vows to “turn over a new leaf” and “never be a heartless flirt again!” |
| Credits | Script: Richard Akin | Pencils: Anthony Tallarico (signed) | Inks: Anthony Tallarico (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Lily Taylor; Carol Hendrick; Sue Wilson; Jack Norton; Bob Wilson; Steve Crane; Mr. Taylor; Mrs. Taylor; Dot; Lou |
| Notes | Anthony Tallarico = Tony Tallarico |
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| Text Article | Marge and Gower Champion (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gower Champion (1919-1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. With his wife and dance partner Marge (Marjorie Celeste Belcher) the Champions were an accomplished dancing team during MGM's Golden Age of the 1940s and 50s. |
| Credits | Script: Beresford King | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Marge Champion; Gower Champion |
| Notes | Text with black and white photo of Marge and Gower Champion |
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| Comic Story | House of Dreams (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Helen meets builder John and they fall in love. He shows her a home he is building, but Helen later sees him take Sandra there. Jealous, Helen sets the house on fire, intending to die. John rescues her and explains that Sandra is his sister. “House wasn’t hurt much,” John says, and still intends to marry Helen. |
| Credits | Script: Jesse Merlan | Pencils: Walter Palais | Inks: Walter Palais |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Helen Worth; John Dodd; Sandra Dodd |
| Notes | Walter Palais is the brother of artist Rudy Palais |
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