Valentine
#1 December 1973
(1 December 1973)
IPC,
1957 Series
- Price
- 0.05 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- Published every Saturday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- Andrea Danzig (assistant editor); Kathy Walker (editor)
Issue Notes
Credits based on information provided by David Roach.
Engagement with Fear!
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why do I have to be unhappy, tonight of all nights?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Suzy; Chris; Clare Harris; John Matthews
- Synopsis
- At their engagement party, Suzy and Chris each hear stories about how their future partner had previously been a flirt. They finally realize if they hadn't been out with other people, they never would have met.
- Reprints
-
in All Love Romantic Stories (K. G. Murray, 1973 ? series) #20 ([February 1977] ?)
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Wanted: A Girl with a Million!
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's my ad. Now I wonder who will answer?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- George Todd; Suzanne; Faye Starr
- Synopsis
- Georgie wants to live the good life but can't afford it so he buys an ad in the personal column for a rich girlfriend. He gets a call and picks up a girl in the lobby of the Grand. They spend a wonderful day together and she seems like the perfect girl for him, but doesn't call him the next day. He does to the Grand to ask about her and discovers she works in the kitchen there.
Day of Decision
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why did they have to come disturbing our peace, that's what I want to know?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jenny; Pete
- Synopsis
- Jenny lives a sheltered existence in a secluded cottage as her father's only companion after he mum died. When the construction of a new housing estate is started near their cottage, she meets a man from the building site that makes her feel special. But her father doesn't approve and wants things to stay the same.
- Reprints
- in Magic Moment Romances (K. G. Murray, 1958 series) #115 ([June 1977] ?)
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Love with Strings
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jeff, why are you here with this woman? How could you possibly know her?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lonnie Fisher; Jeff; Steve
- Synopsis
- When Lonnie sees Jeff with the customer who had started it all, she wonders if she can trust him. He later gets her alone to tell her he was with the other woman because he had a suspicion that she was in with the blackmailers. He kisses her before he leaves and she falls under his spell again. But later that night, Steve proposes to her.
Mr. Gorgeous
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Move in closer to him, Zena. That's fine, Jeff. Now you both look as if you mean it.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jeff; Zena; Liz
- Synopsis
- Liz's boyfriend is so handsome that he is the natural choice for all the romantic parts in their drama group. But Liz starts seeing all the other girls as rivals.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Engagement with Fear!
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2.
Wanted: A Girl with a Million!
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3.
Sorry Dear, But Look at Your Skin
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4.
Day of Decision
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5.
Love with Strings
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6.
["He said I had skin like a peach -- he meant a football pitch!"]
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7.
Mr. Gorgeous
This issue was modified by
- Steve Belknap
- Peter Croome
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