(September 1968)

DC, 1950 Series
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Price:
0.12 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
Monthly
Indicia Publisher:
National Periodical Publications, Inc.
Brand:
Superman DC National Comics
Editing:
Jack Miller (Editor); Carmine Infanto (Editorial Director)
Format:
Standard Golden Age, then Silver Age US color comic; was ongoing series

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[My Time to Love] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jay Scott Pike
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
Gaspar Saladino

Content Information

Genre:
romance

Indexer Notes

crying cover; first romance cover to depict hippies
cover art take from splash page of last story in this issue


When Love Goes Away (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
John Rosenberger
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
romance
Characters:
Jen Clay; Rick Damon (tennis star); Doctor Mitter
Synopsis:
A terrible auto accident renders Rick blind. He meets Jen, a blind girl, at the Mitter School for the Blind. The two fall in love and Rick proposes. Rick's sight is restored following an operation. Jen sends him away, not wanting to be a burden to him. A month later, Rick reappears and assures Jen that his love is real. She agrees to marry him.
Reprints: show reprint note before migration

A Day for Tears (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Mike Sekowsky
Inks:
Bernard Sachs
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
romance
Characters:
Joan Devlin; Alice Dyers; Chris (Alice's husband to be)
Synopsis:
Joan discovers Alice, an old girlfriend, is about to be married. She arrives at Alice's home with best wishes and meets her husband to be -- Chris, a man that had helped Joan recover from a bad relationship two years in the past. Joan is married now and feels nothing but happiness for the couple.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mad Mad Modes for Moderns / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jay Scott Pike
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

fashion suggestions about tunics and tights


Lonely Heart (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Tony Abruzzo
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
romance
Characters:
Peggy Wilson (bored American office worker); Nick (Paris newspaper reporter)
Synopsis:
Peggy flies to Paris looking for excitement. She meets Nick. He wants to do a story on an American girl's first trip to Paris. Peggy falls in love with him. She believes he has no interest in her other than his professional interest as a journalist. On her last day in Paris, Nick confesses his love and proposes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Julia Roberts, Romance Counselor / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
? [as Julia Roberts]
Pencils:
Bob Oksner (header illustation)
Inks:
? (header illustration)
Colors:
? (header illustration)
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

advice column with header illustration


My Time to Love (Part I) (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jay Scott Pike
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
romance
Characters:
Karen; Kip Blake (Karen's hippie boyfriend); Karen's parents
Synopsis:
Karen wants Kip to give up his hippie life, return to college, and become a sensible, responsible man, but Kip has taken a job with a band and wants Karen to travel with him. Karen's parents have enrolled her in a college far from home to get her away from Kip, and she submits to their will. She leaves for college without contacting Kip.
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Indexer Notes

story concluded in next issue


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. When Love Goes Away
  2. 2. A Day for Tears
  3. 3. [no title indexed]
    Mad Mad Modes for Moderns
  4. 4. Lonely Heart
  5. 5. [no title indexed]
    Julia Roberts, Romance Counselor
  6. 6. My Time to Love (Part I)
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