Secret Hearts
#81
(August 1962)
DC,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of March, June, Sept. and Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1962-05-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Arleigh Publishing Corporation
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Phyllis Reed (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Childhood Sweetheart
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I must admit I didn't know too much about the man I was going to marry--except that he was well-to-do -- but, far more important than that, I loved him with all my heart and soul!
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Vic brings Grace to see the family estate where they will live after they are married, but Bonnie, the housekeeper's daughter, reminds Vic that he once promised to marry her.
Nothing but Despair!
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It doesn't take long for a heart to break... only as long as it takes to fall in love with someone who belongs to someone else...
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Salesgirl Ellen gives Charles advice about gifts for his girlfriend, but falls in love with him herself.
Second to None
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was no one alive like my Tommy! He could send those notes clear up to the top of the sky, until even the angels listened! I wanted him more than my heart could bear! But I didn't expect a heartbreak...
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Insecure Jennifer can't let go of Tommy after their breakup, and eventually she is vindicated when he comes back to her.
- Reprints
-
in Romantic (Arédit-Artima, 1960 series) #60 (octobre 1974) [reduced to fit digest size]
-
[no title indexed]
Ann Martin, Counselor-at-Love / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ? [as Ann Martin]
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am sixteen and I live with my grandmother...
- Synopsis
- relationship advice
Prescription for Love!
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I always thought it was a nurse's duty to make her patients feel there was a cure for every human ailment... but I soon found out when a nurse loses her heart to a patient, there is no...
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Efficient nurse Nancy unexpectedly falls in love with Rick, her patient, but soon realizes that he doesn't feel the same way.
- Reprints
- in Romantic (Arédit-Artima, 1960 series) #60 (octobre 1974) [reduced to fit digest size]
-
Indexer Notes
Splash page used as cover art for this issue. Romita pencils per previous indexer and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Werner Roth. Inks previously credited to Bernard Sachs.
Be Wise... Be Smart...
Girls' Romances / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Romita (illustrations); ?
- Inks
- John Romita (illustrations); ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
inside back cover; house ad for Girls' Romances (DC, 1950 series) #86
Is It a Date?
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Romita (illustration)
- Inks
- John Romita (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
back cover; house ad for the line of DC romance titles: Girls' Romances, Falling in Love, Secret Hearts, Girls' Love Stories, and Heart Throbs
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Prescription for Love!
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1.
Contents
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2.
Childhood Sweetheart
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3.
Nothing but Despair!
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4.
Second to None
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5.
["I am sixteen and I live with my grandmother..."]
Ann Martin, Counselor-at-Love -
6.
Prescription for Love!
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7.
Be Wise... Be Smart...
Girls' Romances -
8.
Is It a Date?
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Steve Belknap
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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