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Publication | February-March 1960 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
Notes | Art attribution by Ger Apeldoorn (February 2011). |
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Cover | Hunt Eloping Teenagers |
Content | Genre: Romance |
Notes | Art attribution by Ger Apeldoorn (February 2011). |
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Comic Story | The Truth Has Many Faces (6.67 pages) |
Synopsis | Rich and spoiled Hortense becomes jealous when Jerry starts dating Trudy. Hortense threatens to have her father fire Jerry’s father from his factory job unless Jerry elopes with her. The wedding is prevented and Hortense’s father says he’d never fire anyone just on his daughter’s say-so. Hortense apologizes and Jerry goes back to Trudy, his true love. |
Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Hortense Torgan; Jerry North; Trudy Livingston; Sarah Livingston; Mr. Livingston; Samuel North; Pat Crawford; Mr. Torgan |
Notes | Story told from multiple characters' point of view.
Bottom 1/3 of last page is an advertisement. |
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Featuring | Nancy Hale |
Credits | Script:? [as Nancy Hale] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Romance |
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Comic Story | Small Type (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Ingre comes to the USA to study for her PhD, and takes a job as a maid with the MacMillian family to pay for her expenses. Ingre and Pip MacMillian fall in love, but various things keep postponing their marriage. Ingre thinks Pip’s father is interfering because of his political ambitions. Ingre returns to Norway, but Pip and his father track her down. Mr. MacMillian apologizes and Ingre weds Pip. |
Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Ingre Sue Larsson; Peter "Pip" MacMillian; Reginald MacMillian; Clara MacMillian; Pat |
Notes | Pencils: Late Powell work, grey scale 'photos' in the paper on the opening page look like Powell's then current work for Sick. |
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Comic Story | Where's George? (5 pages) |
Synopsis | After Sarah is jilted by her fiancé Brad, she is afraid to fall in love again. New town doctor George proposes to Sarah and she reluctantly overcomes her fear and accepts. However, on the day of her wedding, George hasn’t appeared and she decides to leave town to get away from the gossip. Sarah then gets a call: George was injured in an auto accident. He isn’t badly hurt and he and Sarah have their wedding later. |
Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Sarah Hadley; Brad; Mrs. Walker; George |
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Comic Story | My Feature Story (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Louise is going steady with Kip, a longtime friend, even though he’s overweight (due to a glandular condition) and this makes her friends mock her. Louise finally breaks up with Kip when he embarrasses her by breaking an antique chair, and she starts dating Carl. However, Kip’s singing prowess at the school show makes him a hit with the other students. Louise is ashamed but knows “he’ll come back to me” and this time she won’t let peer pressure break them apart. |
Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Kip Malcolm; Louise; Carl Bergen; Mrs. Bergen |
Notes | Pencils previously attributed to Bob Powell "in a more 'modern' style" by Ger Apeldoorn but changed to Morrow in 2018, comparing it to his signed work on Sick. |
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Text Article | Beauty Clinic (1 page) |
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Comic Story | The Gentle Nudge (4.67 pages) |
Synopsis | A young woman writes a letter to the local newspaper’s “Love Doctor,” complaining that her fiancé Don hasn’t proposed marriage although they’ve been dating for six years. The Love Doctor invites her to his office and says he’ll solve her problem: the columnist is Don, and he says he’ll marry her right away. |
Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Don; Don's girlfriend |
Notes | Bottom 1/3 of last page is a house ad. |
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Synopsis | House ad for Young Romance, Going Steady, and Young Love. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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