Popular Romance
#15
(October 1951)
Pines,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951-08-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Better Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1951 Periodicals, page 260.
Wrong Way Heart
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- R-390
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Sherry Wayne; Cliff Addams; Mr. Wayne; Mrs. Wayne; Marty
- Synopsis
- Cliff and Sherry are college sweethearts; upon graduation, he says they'll be married when he gets a decent job. He wants to be a journalist, but Sherry says her father will give him an executive position in the Kansas farm machinery factory he owns. Cliff wants to become a success on his own but he agrees to try it for six months. Cliff is unhappy and leaves. Some time later he returns, a noted foreign correspondent. Cliff tells Sherry he did it for her, and they are reunited.
I Spurned Romance
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- R-391
- Characters
- Charlotte Stevens; Cliff Allen; David Frazier; Edith Frazier
- Synopsis
- Charlotte thinks co-worker Cliff is "too immature...too unsophisticated!" She falls in love with her new boss David, although he's "past forty" and married with two children. Charlotte and David have an affair and Charlotte asks him to divorce his wife. However, one of David's children falls ill--Charlotte is angry that he breaks a date with her to care for the child, and David says she's "self-centered! Thoughtless! Vain!" Clint consoles Charlotte and they eventually get engaged.
Indexer Notes
Art credit from JVJ index card attached to online scanned version.
Popular Girl
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Donald Bayne Hobart (credited)
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy (illustrations)
- Inks
- Nick Cardy (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- R-396
Her Unknown Sweetheart
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- R-380
- Genre
- historical; romance
- Characters
- Lydia Dailey; Nathaniel Mayhew Folsom; Mr. Folsom
- Synopsis
- In the 1800s, Lydia sails "around the Horn" to California to marry the son of her father's friend, but falls in love with third mate Nat on the voyage. When they reach port, Lydia learns Nat is the man she was sent to marry.
Too Late For Tears
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- R-392
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Rhonda Winfield; Kenneth Monroe; Mrs. Monroe; Dan Simms
- Synopsis
- Fearing she'll be an old maid, Rhonda agrees to marry her boss Kenneth, although she doesn't love him: "I must be practical!" However, she then meets and falls in love with photographer Dan. Rhonda breaks up with Ken, who wishes her well: "I don't want gratitude! I want love!" Now Rhonda can marry the man she truly loves: Dan.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Wrong Way Heart
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2.
[The Stylish Stole]
Just Between Us -
3.
I Spurned Romance
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4.
Popular Girl
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5.
Her Unknown Sweetheart
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6.
[no title indexed]
Let's Talk It Over -
7.
Too Late For Tears
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Pat Conolly
- Katy Hayhurst
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
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