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| 'My Scandalous affair' is Kinstler and I believe the cover is too.
My only question is, if this is an American comic , why is the Steering Wheel apparently on the right?
Sometime back, Superscrounge wrote. 'Hey! Don't the popular teens get enough attention? How about Unpopular Teen-Agers? The outcasts, the loners, the picked upon, where are their stories???"
Well, this is almost that book, I think, only some of the stories have 'happy' endings. The first two are so bleak, I find myself wondering who would buy the book. |
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| My guess about the steering wheel is that putting it on the USA side would mess up the composition. ERK wanted the babe front and center AND the guy to drape his hand over the wheel. With the wheel on the left there'd be no draping. Reversing the camera angle means the woman would have to be at the wheel for the man to drape on it. ERK could always argue that the couple is in a British sports car, which were sometimes imported with right hand drive.
In an interview Harry Harrison mentioned using this dodge. During his comic book artist days Harrison was given a wordy romance script in which a couple were in a car. In every panel the man, who was driving, spoke first. For the ample dialogue to read in the proper order the balloons would have to be stacked awkwardly with confusing pointers. Harrison put them in a British sports car. Problem solved. |
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| Avon was on its last legs by 1954 and the stories in this comic were all reprints from Romantic Love 6 (1951). |
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| Publication | June-July 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Cover | My Scandalous Affair! |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Thrill Crazy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sally’s stricken mother sends her to the expensive Cranmoor finishing school to get her out of their lower-class neighborhood. Sally meets Bob at a dance and falls for him, but when he returns to his own school, she starts spending her evenings in town with a rough bunch, including Nick. When the school administration finds out, they expel her. Over Bob’s objections, Sally runs off with Nick and they begin a life of crime. Nick is killed during a robbery and Sally is sent to prison. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Romance | Characters: Sally Winters; Nick Ferranti; Doris Manning; Bob; Valerie; Hank |
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| Comic Story | The Shame Is Mine! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Andy rescues cigarette girl Doris from a lecherous nightclub customer. They become friends and Doris agrees to sell Andy’s perfume as well as cigarettes. Doris learns the perfume is stolen and when Andy and chemist Arthur team up to produce counterfeit perfume, she protests but her love for Andy compels her to agree to the scheme. They branch out to supplying drugstores with the fake scents as well. However, gangster Marco tries to take over the racket and everyone is arrested. Andy and Doris are sent to prison, but hope to start an honest life together when they are released. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Romance | Characters: Andy Lee; Doris Kenton; Arthur Hardy; Marco |
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| Comic Story | My Scandalous Affair! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Claire has a reputation in her high school as a “fast girl.” After she is involved in an auto accident, her stepfather warns her to straighten up. But Claire starts smoking marijuana with some friends and gets hooked. Her stepfather commits her to a sanitorium where she sees the effects of long-term drug use. Claire’s decent friend Dick convinces her stepfather to give her a second chance. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Claire; Dick Lauder; Neil Baldwin; Ted Flagg; Mr. Dow |
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| Comic Story | Terror Stalked My Love (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Receptionist Linda meets Keith when he performs some work for her firm. They become friends but Keith rejects her attempts to become closer. Linda goes to gloomy Harkness Hall where he lives with his grandmother, and is invited to spend a few days there. Keith later explains that the men in his family have always reacted badly to “the curse of woman’s infidelity” (his own father committed suicide). Neighbor Tommy tries to kiss Linda and Keith decides to kill himself, but when it’s proven that Tommy’s advances were unwanted, Keith and Linda decide to marry and live happily ever after. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Linda; Keith Harkness; Mrs. Harkness; Tommy Gregg; Amos |
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| Text Story | Romances of the Golden West (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Runs through inside back cover. |
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