Confessions of Love (1953 Star Publications) comic books
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Issue #4
- 4" Cumulative spine split (held with paper tape). Cover detached. Centerfold loose at one staple. Staple rust.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Jay Disbrow and others. Romance comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Numbering continues from Confessions of Love (1953 Star Publications) #14, confusingly enough. Gary longs for love, but women pass him by because he's not handsome or handy. Con man Bill Hale kills and swindles his way to a fortune in black gold in oil-boom Oklahoma. Convict Frank convinces the parole board that he's fallen in love and wants to go straight, but is soon blamed for another murder. The Longing Heart; I Waited For Him; I Fought For My Love; My Tragic Affair. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #6
Auction opens January 4- Water damage. Oxidation. Chew.
$125.00
View scan- Puncture in cover and first five interior pages. Water spotting and staple rust with migration.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Lee Loeb, Paul Parker and H. T. Elmo. Romance comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A middle-class girl falls for wealthy banking heir Johnny, but he only has eyes for her rich friend Emily. How some of the stranger modern marriage customs originated. Lynn is wooed by Bill after losing her first husband, but when her mother falls ill, Lynn learns Bill's true nature, in a story originally printed with the more lurid title "My Two Wedding Rings." My Jealous Heart; Origin of Marriage Customs; Was I Bad??; Romanswers; I Suffered For Love. Actually the final issue under this title; issues #11-14 were printed before issue #4. Series continues as Confessions of Romance (1953) #7. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #13
$569.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4176234007
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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$270.00
View scan- Water damage. Cover oxidation.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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L.B. Cole cover. All stories reprinted in Popular Teen-Agers (1950) #23. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. "Heart-Break" art by Jay Disbrow; "Will I Have His Kisses Forever??"; and "I Was Dazzled by Love" retitled and reprinted from "I Hid My Lover" in My Desire (1949) #3. "Love's Mailbox" and "It's Personal, Do You Wear a Girdle?" text articles. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #14
- Mold. Heavy interior tearing, tape on interior pages (one page torn in half). Staple rust/migration.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Other items consigned by humble cow
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split (partially taped), heavy soiling to interior.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Art Gates and others. Romance comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Marianne falls for handsome artist Owen when he rents a room in her family's Victorian-era boarding house. A fortune teller gets blindsided by love, but she also doesn't see the heartache coming. Rebellious Florence is torn between bad-boy Mark and lawyer Louis, and gets arrested for being a "good-time girl." Also featuring a vintage ad for "50 Combat Action Plastic Toys." Halfway Up the Landing; He Kissed and Told!; My Fateful Love; My Day-Dream of Love; I Rebelled Against Convention. Followed by Confessions of Love (1953 Star Publications) #4, confusingly enough. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
