Issue | #61 |
Published | March 1957 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Leon Harvey |
Notes | Publisher in indicia: Home Comics, Inc., with contents copyright Harvey Features Syndicate |
Genre | Romance |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Notes | Publisher in indicia: Home Comics, Inc., with contents copyright Harvey Features Syndicate |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Ad for four 1950's dresses. |
Genre | Romance |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Notes | This page also served as the introduction to the story "Too Young" |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Ad for "progressive scientific method" to develop skinny legs for fuller calves and shapely thighs. |
Characters | Wendy Barrow; Eric Barrow |
Synopsis | Wendy and Eric meet on the beach during a New England summer. Following a whirlwind romance, they elope and marry, but Eric doesn't realize Wendy is much younger than he and hasn't even graduated from high school. Times are tough for the newlyweds and she leaves Eric, only to find she is pregnant. When Christmas comes, Eric returns promising they will never be apart again. |
Genre | Romance |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Genre | Romance |
Letters | Typeset |
Genre | Romance |
Script | Robert Harvey |
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Genre | Romance |
Notes | Hints on looking for a summer job: baby-sitting, office supplies clerk, waitress, factory worker, librarian and park attendant. "You'll make money and have loads of fun doing it!" |
Characters | Nancy Harris; Ben Carter |
Synopsis | Even though Nancy Harris was a year younger, she planned to marry Ben Carter after high school. But Ben had gone to work on a freighter, sailing aroung the world. When he returned, his hometown, and girlfriend seemed to small. To get a stake to move on, Ben took a job at a factory. Nancy also took a job there making the situation tense. But Ben realized he loved Nancy and asked her to marry him. |
Genre | Romance |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | How to grow long, beautiful nails in 7 minutes. |
Genre | Romance |
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Notes | House ad promoting First Love 74, True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated 49, Hi-School Romance 61, First Romance 64, True Bride-to-Be Romances 23 |
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Notes | Ad for photos of Elvis, Grace Kelly, Tony Curtis, Marlon Brando, and more. |
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Notes | Ad for a standard 78 RPM phonograph. |
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Notes | Twelve beautiful dolls for one dollar, plus twenty-five cents shipping. |
Characters | Ginny Ross; Sandy; Bix |
Synopsis | All Sandy can think of is applying to medical school, but Ginny Ross wants excitement. After breaking up with Sandy, Ginny starts seeing Bix, the wild, carefree guy with no ambition. When Bix refuses to meet Ginny's mother, she ends up in tears and Sandy arrives to punch Bix in the nose. Without his gang, Bix is a coward and he hastily leaves Sandy to take Ginny in his arms. |
Genre | Romance |
Genre | Romance |
Letters | Typeset |
Genre | Romance |
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Notes | Lead story: "The Right to Love" |
Genre | Romance |
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Notes | Romance advice ofr teen-agers. |
Characters | Donna Blake; Bill Carson; Jeb Carson |
Synopsis | Donna Blake was hopelessly in love with Bill Carson, but she was a plumber's daughter and Bill's father, Jeb, was a wealthy land developer. Their opportunity to be together came when Bill was selected to write some lectures for the local radio station and Donna was chosen to read them on-air. After telling his father he wanted to marry Donna, Jeb insisted that she prove herself to not simply be out for the family fortune. One day she overheard Jeb plotting to use land earmarked for a new hospital for his own development and reported this on the radio. Thinking that had ended her chance with Bill, she found he was more in love with her than ever. |
Genre | Romance |
Pencils | Tom Hickey |
Inks | Tom Hickey |
Notes | Donna Blake has a "Bettie Page" hairstyle in this story |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Ad for Beauti-Lash that "imparts dazzling new alure to short, stubby lashes." |
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Notes | Ad for opportunity to sell greeting cards and stationery in spare time. |
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Notes | Ad for the "Eat-Half-Plan" weight reducing aid. Safer than ephedrine and benzidrine. |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Train to be a nurse in 12 weeks. |