Issue: #1
Published: October 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format:
Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 191, registration number B380725
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| Text Story (1 page) |
Have You Heard This One? |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
A New Routine |
| Synopsis: |
Robin and Chuck form a dance team. Famous male dancer Ashley offers Robin a position as his new partner. Chuck proposes marriage to Robin but she doesn’t love him and is falling for Ashley. However, Ashley dumps her when Robin’s heart condition prevents her from dancing. Chuck returns and he and Robin reconcile. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Robin Roberts Chuck Collins Mr. Stern Ashley Rand |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Spoiled Darling |
| Synopsis: |
Barbara and Norman, who works in her father’s factory, fall in love. He proposes marriage but says he’s opening his own design studio and they must live on his salary alone. Barbara asks her father to give Norman a promotion, but Norman won’t accept it. Norman’s firm begins to fail and Barbara prevents the local banker from extending him a loan. Norman goes back to work in the factory, but just before he marries Barbara, Norman learns what she did. He breaks up with her. Barbara becomes a nurse to become “useful” and hopes Norman will return some day. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Norman Holmes Cyrus Fontaine Barbara Fontaine Mr. Forbes Mr. Prescott |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Love Game |
| Synopsis: |
Eva and Nicky travel to the city for a tennis tournament. Eva meets Tim and they fall in love. She stays in town to care for her ill Aunt Kathryn, although the older woman asks her to stop seeing Tim. Her aunt recovers and goes on a trip; Nicky comes by for a visit and he and Eva spot Tim in a nightclub with another woman: his wife. Tim later says he wants to stay married to his rich wife but Eva can be his mistress. Nicky punches Tim. Eva and Nicky go home together. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Eva Nicky Holmes Tim Graven Aunt Kathryn |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Blackmail Heart |
| Synopsis: |
Bored with her life, Sally quits her office job and goes to work as a nightclub hat check girl. Her “stick-in-the-mud” fiancé Bill objects and says the club owner and employee Norman are blackmailers. Sally breaks up with Bill and dates Norman. Norman convinces Sally to kiss a client as a “joke,” but they’re both later arrested for blackmail. Sally is freed and decides to leave town to escape the scandal. Bill shows up and they reconcile. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Bill Stanton Ben Blackwell Judd Raymond Janice Martin Norman Bennett Sally Forrest Mr. Daly Lt. Colt |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Quips and Queries |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
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