Volume: #1, Issue: #1
Published: October 1949, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1949, page 257, registration number B208274.
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Advertisement (1 page) |
Now You Can Have Daring Newest Look Beauty |
Featuring: |
Tri-Lette; Wilco Company |
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Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (ad agency) |
Genre: |
Fashion |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
Jealousy Was My Undoing |
Synopsis: |
Newlyweds Dorothy and Pierre host Pierre’s old friends Bill and his wife Kitty. Dorothy learns Kitty used to be Pierre’s dance contest partner and is jealous. Bill and Kitty are later killed in a plane crash. When Pierre arranges to care for their orphaned 4-year-old daughter Elaine, Dorothy walks out on him. She gets a job and a new boyfriend, loser Bob. When Kitty falls ill, Bob can't be bothered but Pierre shows up and she asks him to take her back. |
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Romance |
Characters: |
Dorothy Pierre Bill Darcy Kitty Darcy Elaine Darcy Bob |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
You'll Come Back |
Synopsis: |
Dance team Eddie and Nora audition for a Broadway show but star Delilah insists that only Eddie be hired. When Eddie refuses, Delilah takes them both, but splits up the act. Nora quits, but when the show flops because of Delilah, Nora becomes Eddie’s partner again and they are a hit. |
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Letters: ? (Leroy lettering) |
Genre: |
Romance |
Characters: |
Eddie Evans Nora Nash Sam Sloan Mrs. Beckett Max Reibert Delilah Sansone Herb |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
I Had To Choose |
Synopsis: |
Business executive Pam is too busy for her friend David, so she asks her assistant Madge to keep him company. Madge sets up Pam with a blind date: David. Pam realizes she has been neglecting her friends and her personal life for business. |
Genre: |
Romance |
Characters: |
Pam Streete Madge David Miss Turkle Bert Dr. Watkins Dr. White Miss Marten |
Text Story (2 pages) |
I Found My Heart In the Past... |
Synopsis: |
Loretta attends a party with Dixon, a rather dull man she had been dating for a couple of months, however at the party she runs into Jack, a man she had once rejected when they were both teenagers. |
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Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Romance |
Characters: |
Loretta Dale Dixon Peggy Jack Carstairs |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
Take Me As I Am... |
Synopsis: |
Office worker Helen meets wealthy Royce at a skating rink. She conceals her working class background from him, pretending to live at the mansion where her mother is employed as a cook. Her mother agrees to go along with the deception but only temporarily, warning Helen that she must eventually be honest with Royce. Royce’s former girlfriend Becky, whose father owns the company where Helen works, discovers the truth. Royce says it doesn’t matter to him, he loves Helen. |
Genre: |
Romance |
Characters: |
Royce Winters Helen Kroll Mrs. Kroll Vicky Becky Thorp Percy Thorp Dr. Ellsworth |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Electronic Juke-Box Bank |
Featuring: |
Shar-Lee Company |
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Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (ad agency) |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
Unwelcome |
Synopsis: |
Tom’s widowed father John returns from Europe with a new wife, Wilma, and her teen-aged daughter, Martha. Tom makes friends with Martha, who grew up in a concentration camp, but he spreads nasty rumors about Wilma. When his father finds out and angrily strikes him, Tom runs away and is hit by a car and injured. Learning Wilma and Martha are planning to leave, Tom goes home and begs them to stay: a happy family is formed. |
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Pencils: Ed Smalle [as EJS] (signed) | Inks: Ed Smalle [as EJS] (signed) | Letters: ?; (Leroy lettering) |
Genre: |
Romance |
Characters: |
Tom Craig John Craig Wilma Craig Martha Aunt Lucy Sid |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Send Secret Messages With the Lone Ranger |
Featuring: |
The Lone Ranger; Fun Industries |
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Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (ad agency) |
Characters: |
The Lone Ranger Tonto Silver Boy |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Pimples Disappear Before Your Eyes! |
Featuring: |
Dornol Products |
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Pencils: ? (illustration); ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (illustration); ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (ad agency) |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Have a Slimmer Youthful Feminine Appearance Instantly! |
Featuring: |
Adjust-o-belt Company |
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Pencils: ? (illustration); ? (photographs) | Inks: ? (illustration); ? (photographs) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (ad agency) |
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