(September-October 1953)

Stanley Morse, 1953 Series
 
Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gillmor Magazines Inc.
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Issue Notes

Indicia reads: DARING LOVE, Vol. 1, No. 1, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1953. Published bi-monthly by GILLMOR MAGAZINES, INC. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y.

[Paper Romance] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bernard Baily
Inks
Bernard Baily
Colors
?

Genre
romance

Indexer Notes

Title from story inside issue.

Dear John (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gerald Altman ?
Inks
Gerald Altman ?
Colors
?
Letters
Jon D'Agostino ?

Genre
romance

Indexer Notes

lots of good girl art in this one

Career Girl! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
romance

Love...and Obey! (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
romance

My Sister's Keeper! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
romance

Paper Romance! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
romance
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Per Blake Bell, "Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko" (Fantagraphics Books, 2008, ISBN-13: 9781560979310), page 20, Steve Ditko's first published work (his second sale, appearing before his first sale) is penciling and inking the story "Paper Romance" in Gillmor Magazines' DARING LOVE #1 (September-October 1953). According to Blake, "So buried was this title [DARING LOVE] in the dustbin of history that Ditko's contributions went undiscovered until the late 1980s."

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Paper Romance]
  2. 1. Dear John
  3. 2. Career Girl!
  4. 3. Love...and Obey!
  5. 4. My Sister's Keeper!
  6. 5. Paper Romance!
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