Marilyn
#29 July 1961
(29 July 1961)
Amalgamated Press,
1955 Series
- Price
- 5d [0-0-5 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- Robert Lewis
Issue Notes
Credits based on information provided by David Roach.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wonder if things will change between Paul and me...now ?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Paul Denton; Brenda Harris; Jill Harris
- Synopsis
- Paul has a knack of making it impossible for Jill to worry about anything.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of this story.
[no title indexed]
My Sister's Impossible Husband / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'd like you to meet my sister... my married sister.
- Genre
- humour; romance
- Characters
- Cherry; Garfield Popkins; Eileen
- Synopsis
- Eileen and Cherry are orphans so Cherry insists on Eileen lodging with them after she marries Garfield. Garfield tries to be clever, but never succeeds. On their wedding day, he tries to take a photo of Eileen and Cherry together, but breaks the tripod. On the way back from their honeymoon in Paris, he forgets his passport and tries to be funny by saying he'd landed in a spaceship. He is then arrested on suspicion of being a spy.
Indexer Notes
First installment of this feature that would run regularly into 1964.
Next Week: Passport to prison!
Love Match
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sebastián Velasco (signed) [as Velasco]
- Inks
- Sebastián Velasco (signed) [as Velasco]
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I won't be able to keep going much longer!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Anne; Jean; Mike Jackson
- Synopsis
- Anne takes over her uncle's old-fashioned draper's after he dies and is barely managing when "Smart Wear" opens their shop. She receives a buy-out offer of five hundred pounds, but business picks up after Mike stops by to pick up a handkerchief. When she goes to see him play rugby, she recognizes the players on his team and realizes where her new business has come from. Still, she is able to negotiate a higher buy-out from the new business which enables her to pay off the mortgage.
[no title indexed]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- During our second week's holiday...
- Genre
- humour; romance
- Characters
- Peg Dawson; Sue; Cyril
- Synopsis
- Cyril has a crush on Sue, but she doesn't want anything to do with him. Peg thinks Sue is being hard-hearted and tries to give him advice. But it backfires when he switches his attentions from Sue to Peg.
Burning Flame
text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2009/12/jordi-longaron-en-uk.html.
[no title indexed]
Gus and His Guitar! / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're very quiet lately, gus
- Genre
- humour
[no title indexed]
Ruby Always Has the Last Word! / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch, Ruby! I've just learnt -
- Genre
- humour
Strictly Business
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cut that out, Johnny! Remember... I'm your boss now!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Liz Hunter; Johnny Swanson; Mr. Furlong
- Synopsis
- When Liz is made Johnny's boss, she insists their relationship be strictly business between nine and five. But Johnny is unhappy when Mr. Furlong makes Liz work long hours.
Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2011/06/roberto-gonzalez-casarrubio-en-uk….
[no title indexed]
Looking in on Life / comic story / 0.8 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kay Bewick
- Inks
- Kay Bewick
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I met Harry at a Christmas party last year, and we started dating regularly.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Hazel; Harry
- Synopsis
- Harry goes weeks between asking Hazel out and she wonders if he will ever be serious about her.
Indexer Notes
Advice column letter presented in comic sequence format.
[no title indexed]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, kid! I'm at a dance when I see the belle of the ball - and she sure is appealin'!
- Genre
- humour; romance
- Characters
- Tab
- Synopsis
- Tab apologizes when he doesn't see a puddle and his car accidentally splashes the girl who had turned him down for a dance a couple of days earlier.
There's No Tomorrow
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sometimes I don't think you have any idea of what I'm really like. But I'm going in for the Beauty Queen Contest, Ron Green, no matter what you say!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Linda Baden; Ron Green; Gladys
- Synopsis
- Ron almost talks Linda out of continuing in the Beauty Queen Contest, but when he mentions his mother's opinion she decides to go through with it. At the contest, she doesn't see Ron in the crowd and rushes to the station to catch him. That's when she breaks the news to him that she won and is Miss Seamouth of 1961.
Indexer Notes
Next Week: Fame is the spur.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["I wonder if things will change between Paul and me...now ?"]
-
2.
["I'd like you to meet my sister... my married sister."]
My Sister's Impossible Husband -
3.
Love Match
-
4.
["During our second week's holiday..."]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl -
5.
Burning Flame
-
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
["You're very quiet lately, gus"]
Gus and His Guitar! -
8.
["Watch, Ruby! I've just learnt -"]
Ruby Always Has the Last Word! -
9.
Strictly Business
-
10.
["I met Harry at a Christmas party last year, and we started dating regularly."]
Looking in on Life -
11.
["Hi, kid! I'm at a dance when I see the belle of the ball - and she sure is appealin'!"]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! -
12.
There's No Tomorrow
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- Steve Belknap
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
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