Teen-Age Romances #29

(January 1953)

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Bewitched and Bewildered (Table of Contents: 2)

Teen-Age Romances / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Ric Estrada

Inks

Ric Estrada

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Genre

romance

Characters

Helen Jerrold; Doug Schuyler; Phil

Synopsis

Helen lives on her father's farm and cooks for the hands. Phil, a young hand, loves her. Helen finds farm life boring and yearns for the sophistication of the big city. One day, she gives a lift to hitchhiker Doug Schuyler, an attractive man with a metropolitan background and no firm destination in mind. Helen takes a liking to him and persuades her father to hire him. As the days pass, Helen and Doug are drawn together and she falls in love. Doug is not suited to farm work and is eventually fired. As the days pass with no word from him, Helen's longing deepens. She steals the farm payroll to travel to the city and find him. When she does, she discovers he is a popular novelist and has written their love story into his latest comic novel. She realizes bitterly that he used her just to gather material for his book. She is hurt and humiliated, but won't go home until she has earned enough money to repay that she stole from her father. She takes a job as a waitress. When a lecherous customer corners her outside the eatery one night, a fist flattens him. She turns to find Phil beside her. He has come to take her home.

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What Every Girl Should Know (Table of Contents: 4)

Teen-Age Romances / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Hy Rosen

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Genre

romance

Characters

Patty Warner; Freda Adams; Mike Morris; Bob Avery

Synopsis

Frosh Patty Warner joins a sorority at Parker College but her initiation is an untraditional one and consists of manipulating a romance with Parker's halfback, Bob Avery. The unusual initiation is the brainchild of Freda Adams, an unscrupulous senior dating Mike Morris, the quarterback at Hampton College. Mike has wearied of Freda but she will go to any lengths to keep him. Freda's objective in posing the unusual task to Patty is to exhaust Bob, to make him unfit for playing good football and thus allow her boyfriend Mike to triumph in the upcoming game for Hampton College. Patty is unaware of Freda's ulterior motives but complies as ordered by her senior sorority sister. When the big game comes along, Freda wants Parker's halfback out of the game completely and concocts an elaborate plot to get him arrested and held in jail the afternoon of the game. Everything goes according to plan, but Patty informs the police about Freda's nefarious plot and Bob is released in time for the final quarter. Bob wins the game for Parker, snags a professional contract with the Wolverines incidentally, and forgives Patty. Patty is tearfully grateful.

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Synopsis

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Indexer Notes

Statement interrupts the story "What Every Girl Should Know" following the story's first page.

Love in Disguise (Table of Contents: 7)

Teen-Age Romances / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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Genre

romance

Characters

Martha Dunmore; Joe; George Harris

Synopsis

Martha is an honor student and helps Joe with his school assignments. She wishes he would develop a romantic interest in her. To that end, she undergoes a glamor girl make-over one day with a new hairdo and a new dress. In school the next day, she is given the task of bringing handsome transfer student, George Harris, up-to-date on assignments. The two develop a romantic relationship and he invites her to the prom. Meanwhile, Joe presses his attentions upon Martha but she realizes he is not interested in her for who she is but only because she has become the object of admiration for others as a result of her glamorous new style. She sticks with George who loves her for who she is.

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Script

Lewis and Fay Copeland

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Genre

humor

Synopsis

Jokes about courtship, marriage, and relationships from "10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories" (1939, 1940; Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.)

[Jokes] (Table of Contents: 9)

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Lewis and Fay Copeland

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Genre

humor

Synopsis

Jokes about courtship, marriage, and relationships from "10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories" (1939, 1940; Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.)

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A Colt Called Cupid (Table of Contents: 11)

Teen-Age Romances / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Ric Estrada

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Ric Estrada

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Genre

romance

Characters

Vicki Redgrave; Rance Wellman

Synopsis

Ranch girl Vicki Redgrave and cowhand Rance Wellman fall in love. He has plans to move to New York City where he hopes to find opportunity and success as a big shot rodeo performer. Although they plan to marry, Vicki is reluctant to leave her beloved rangeland. Winter sets in, and their departure day arrives but Vicki wants to take one last look at the range and rides alone into the snow. She rescues a lost colt and realizes that she will have to spend the night on the range. She seeks shelter in the rocks, all the while wondering if Rance will think she has changed her mind and will leave for New York alone. Time passes, and Rance suddenly appears. He admits he thought she had abandoned him. He has come to the conclusion that he belongs on the range and consequently has dropped his plans for life in New York City. They embrace and look forward to building their home in a nearby valley.

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