Marilyn
#5 December 1959
(5 December 1959)
Amalgamated Press,
1955 Series
- Price
- 5d [0-0-5 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- published every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- Robert Lewis (editor)
Issue Notes
Credits based on information provided by David Roach.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get me out of here! I'm being mobbed!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Janine; Stuart
- Synopsis
- Janine helps Stuart escape from a pack of rabid female fans by pretending to be engaged to him.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of this story.
Come Back, Kerry
text story / 2.7 pages
- Script
- Peter O'Donnell
- Pencils
- Jack Hardee
- Inks
- Jack Hardee (wash tones)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was silence in the little camp which lay in a hollow of the Tibetan hills.
- Genre
- romance
Bellissima
comic story / 5.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you leave me now we'll never meet again - and I shall know you are guilty of murder!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lissa Polden; Vito Giordano; Nell
- Synopsis
- Lissa convinces Vito to give himself up to the police. She wants to stay, but realizes her sick sister can't travel alone and she must accompany her. While traveling by train to the port, they read a newspaper report that Vito has been exonerated and Lissa wonders if he will forgive her for leaving. Just as her ship is about to leave for England, Vito arrives and joins her on her trip home.
Indexer Notes
This is the end of the serial.
[no title indexed]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- A. Hailey
- Pencils
- José Carlos Gracia (signed as José Carlos)
- Inks
- José Carlos Gracia (signed as José Carlos)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi! I'm out helping Liz with her shopping, kid, when she gets somethin' in her eye - and it's not a twinkle!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tab; Liz
- Synopsis
- Liz gets something stuck in her eye and Tab accompanies her to the chemist. When Tab gets a look at the chemist, he gets something stuck in his eye so he can also get some attention from her.
- Reprints
-
in Marilyn (Amalgamated Press, 1955 series) #7 November 1964 (7 November 1964)
-
Wild Music
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- E. Durrant
- Pencils
- Carlos Freixas (signed)
- Inks
- Carlos Freixas (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "It's bad news," the chauffeur said. Her heart stood still. Something had happened to Jervis!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Maggie Rowe; Jervis Holt, Romaine Webster; Sinclair
- Synopsis
- Sinclair tells Maggie that Jervis has been calling out her name, but when she arrives at the nursing home where he is recovering, Jervis angrily sends her away, even after she tells him she called off her wedding with Stan. A few hours later, she is on a north-bound train away from him.
Indexer Notes
Next Week: More torment for Maggie!
Come Dance with Me
comic story / 3.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I suppose we're stuck with her all the evening now.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Cathy; Joe; Mavis; Bill; Pete
- Synopsis
- Cathy's blind date doesn't show up and she has no one to dance with. Feeling desperate, she cuts in on a couple during the "ladies excuse me" dance, but regrets it when her partner turns out to be a wolf she can't get rid of. The saxophonist steps in to save her by claiming he is her brother and has to take her home.
[no title indexed]
Looking in on Life / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is my friend just jealous?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jeannie; Derek; Edna
- Synopsis
- Jeannie makes a date with a boy who seems nice, but Jeannie's friend says he has a terrible name with girls and is no good.
Indexer Notes
Advice column letter presented in comic sequence format.
[no title indexed]
Ruby Always Has the Last Word! / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What smashing blue nylons -
- Genre
- humour
[no title indexed]
Larry / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- - is this Miss Pruneby's orchard?
- Genre
- humour
Be Different Says Jo Shelton!
comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You've got to dress differently to stand out in a crowd.
- Genre
- fashion
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["Get me out of here! I'm being mobbed!"]
-
2.
Come Back, Kerry
-
3.
Bellissima
-
4.
["Hi! I'm out helping Liz with her shopping, kid, when she gets somethin' in her eye - and it's not a twinkle!"]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! -
5.
Wild Music
-
6.
Come Dance with Me
-
7.
["Is my friend just jealous?"]
Looking in on Life -
8.
["What smashing blue nylons -"]
Ruby Always Has the Last Word! -
9.
["- is this Miss Pruneby's orchard?"]
Larry -
10.
Be Different Says Jo Shelton!
-
11.
["His mother comes from a Romany family - wonder if she ever told him his fortune?"]
Can You Spot This Top Record Star?
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- Steve Belknap
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
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