First Kiss
#13
(March 1960)
Charlton,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Pat Masulli (Executive Editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott ?; Dick Giordano ?
- Inks
- Vince Colletta; Jon D'Agostino ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
Inking attribution by Nick Caputo (July 2010).
Cover art is taken from three interior story panels. The pictures labeled "summer always passes" and "the betraying kiss" are both actually taken from art in the interior "Summer Always Passes" story. The picture labeled "the serious type" is taken from art in the interior "The Serious Type" story.
The Serious Type
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 6111
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Marcia is more interested in books than people. She detests the good looking campus heroes like Kent Marsden. But Marcia's father is a friend of Kent's father and offers Kent to room at their house for the summer while the fraternity is closed. Marcia learns there is more to Kent than she thought.
Summer Always Passes
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- 6227
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Fran was born and raised in a small, quiet town near the shore. She is engaged to Paul Grove, a pharmacist working in a local drug store. But the future looks dull to Fran and she yearns for the life of the wealthy people who come to the point to spend the summers. She breaks off her engagement to Paul, then discovers her new crowd is shallow and unhappy.
The Betraying Kiss
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Charles Nicholas (signed)
- Inks
- Sal Trapani (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Pam's boyfriend Jimmy is framed for cheating on a test where the high score wins a scholarship. Pam goes out with Jimmy's rival, hoping she can get him to confess that he planted the test questions in Jimmy's locker.
Tension Tennis And Love
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Alice Luntz loves tennis player John Carter. Injuries sustained in a car accident ended his dreams of being a champion tennis player. Alice comes from a wealthy family, but John's pride is a barrier between them. Alice has a dream of a violinist playing a tune on a tennis racket. When John hears about the dream, he gets a new idea for a way to adjust the tension in the strings of tennis rackets. The new tennis racket is a success and John marries Alice.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Serious Type
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2.
Summer Always Passes
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3.
The Betraying Kiss
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4.
Tension Tennis And Love
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5.
The Troublemaker
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Belknap
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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