Heart Throbs
#136
(December 1971)
DC,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 23
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-10-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Dorothy Woolfolk (Editor); Ethan C. Mordden (Assistant Editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Smashup!
comic story / 11 pages
- Job Number
- D-442
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Don Morrow; Sheila Gordon; Steve Akers
- Synopsis
- Sheila and Don are competing race car drivers. Sheila gets Don to fall for her, but he wants her to quit racing.
Indexer Notes
Pencil credits confirmed by Jack Katz via the GCD Error Tracker. Colletta inks per David Roach and Nick Katradis. Jack Katz originally credited Ric Estrada.
Stolen Love
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- D-458
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Carole Porter; Jean; George Benson
- Synopsis
- Carole invites her cousin, Jean, to the city to visit for a few weeks. Jean remembers Carole's penchant for stealing boyfriends, but Jean doesn't expect that to be a problem since she doesn't currently have a boyfriend. That starts to change when she meets a policeman who helps her when she gets lost on the way to Carole's house.
- Reprints
-
from Secret Hearts (DC, 1949 series) #96 (June 1964) [retitled and updated] -
in Twin Hearts (K. G. Murray, 1958 series) #167 ([1972])
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Love Came First!" Some re-inking to update hairstyles and other details.
With All My Heart
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- D-405
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Bob; Gale
- Synopsis
- Gale doesn't want to get involved with another man after she breaks up with Tad, but Bob is persistent. Gale clings to the love letters that Tad had sent to her while he was in the army, but the letters had actually been written for Tad by Bob while they were serving overseas together.
- Reprints
- from Heart Throbs (DC, 1957 series) #81 (December 1962-January 1963) [retitled and updated]
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Love Letters." Some re-inking to update hairstyles and other details.
[no title indexed]
Telling It The Way It Is ... To Lynn Farrell / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- D-471
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Lynn Farrell: I have a weird problem.
Indexer Notes
advice column
The Pretenders
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- D-278
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Anne; Betty; Eric Sands; Jane
- Synopsis
- Anne and Betty are both dating Eric, although neither is very interested in him. Eric tries to tell each of them that he is seeing someone else, but they both string him along as a joke. When Anne and Betty discover they are both seeing the same person, they decide to show up together at Eric's apartment to see the look on his face. The joke is on them when Jane opens the door, introducing herself as Eric's fiance.
A Friend in Need!
comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- D-388
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Dave; Donna; Jackie Walters; Cynthia; Dave
- Synopsis
- As a teenager, Donna hangs out with wild Jackie "The Rebel" and starts to get a bad reputation in town. She eventually stops seeing Jackie, but her reputation follows her. Many boys seem to be interested at first, but drop her soon after. After years of this, Donna and her mother wonder what keeps the old reputation alive. Donna finds out when she catches her best friend Cynthia telling her latest boyfriend about her past. But Dave realizes Cynthia is sabotaging Donna out of jealousy and tells Donna what matters is that she stopped seeing Jackie.
- Reprints
- from Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #92 (July 1967)
-
Editing
Edits to this Issue
are currently awaiting review by a GCD Editor
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Smashup!
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1.
Smashup!
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2.
Stolen Love
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3.
Are You Lovable to Men?
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4.
With All My Heart
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5.
["Dear Lynn Farrell: I have a weird problem."]
Telling It The Way It Is ... To Lynn Farrell -
6.
The Pretenders
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7.
Let's Get Married
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8.
A Friend in Need!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Belknap
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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