(September 1957)
Harvey,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
- True Love Series
Why should I be true to him?
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Simon ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- romance
I Can't Have You
comic story / 6.67 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Sally; Frank; Buck Smith
- Reprints
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from First Love Illustrated (Harvey, 1949 series) #15 (November 1951) [retitled]
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Indexer Notes
Four panel intro.
Fighter's Girl!
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Clark Williams; Janie; Mac Grady
- Synopsis
- Janie has a crush on former schoolmate Clark, now a professional boxer. Clark repeatedly sends her away because he has no future and no security to offer her. When another fighter makes a pass at Janie, Clark knocks him out and says he’ll have to marry Janie to keep her out of trouble.
- Reprints
- from First Love Illustrated (Harvey, 1949 series) #15 (November 1951) [retitled]
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No Hope For Happiness!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Bart Barrow; Sylvia; Mrs. Singleton; Janice Follet; Rose Webb; Joe
- Synopsis
- Reporter Bart investigates the death of Janice, a mysterious blonde whose body was washed up on a beach. He becomes obsessed with her, to the detriment of his relationship with fellow newspaper employee Sylvia. Bart visits Janice’s home town and discovers she’s alive: she left town suddenly to marry Joe, just discharged from the Army. The dead woman’s identity is a mystery. Bart realizes his love for Janice was an illusion, but Sylvia is real.
- Reprints
- from First Love Illustrated (Harvey, 1949 series) #15 (November 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Hames Ware.
The basic premise of this story is the same as the novel and film "Laura" by Vera Caspary. However, the conclusion is different.
She's No Lady
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Meg; Frank; Biff; Hal Peters; Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters
- Synopsis
- At lunchtime each day, Meg helps her father Frank with his lunch wagon business outside a local factory, then returns to school. She breaks up with factory worker Biff in order to date wealthy classmate Hal. Hal asks Meg to hide her humble origins from his parents, but when a factory worker gets fresh and Biff defends her, Hal’s father—who owns the factory—sees her there. Hal agrees with his parents: Meg is too common for him. Meg and Biff reconcile.
- Reprints
- from First Love Illustrated (Harvey, 1949 series) #15 (November 1951)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Why should I be true to him?
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
I Can't Have You
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3.
No Turning Back
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4.
Fighter's Girl!
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5.
No Hope For Happiness!
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6.
She's No Lady
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- Ger Apeldoorn
- Steve Coates
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
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