Marilyn
#12 August 1961
(12 August 1961)
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
Issue Notes
Credits based on information provided by David Roach.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm fed up with married life! It's nothing but work, work, work!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jim; Tom Pearson; Audrey; Miriam
- Synopsis
- After six months of married life, Audrey is fed up with all the washing, cooking and ironing. She leaves her flat and reminisces about her life before she was married until she sees Tom's old car. He had loved the car, but had sold it to pay for things to make her life easier.
Indexer Notes
The first page of this story serves as the cover.
There's No Tomorrow
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't care what you do, Linda. I love you, and that's all that matters.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Linda Baden; Ron Green; Jock Kennedy
- Synopsis
- Linda meets an agent and decides to give up her job to enter more beauty queen contests and possibly a career as an actress.
Indexer Notes
Next week: Pathway to Fame!
His Kind of Girl
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hope you're not going to have your nose in a book all the time when your cousin Dan's here!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Dan; Betty; Norma
- Synopsis
- Betty is expected to show her country cousin what the exciting town life is like when he visits, but she prefers quiet music, country walks and books to the jive scene of her friend Norma.
[no title indexed]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bill and I haven't been hitting it off too well lately...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Peg; Bill; Sue
- Synopsis
- Peg realizes that she doesn't have a deep, undying passion for Bill.
Burning Flame
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jorge Longarón (signed)
- Inks
- Jorge Longarón (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- 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]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, kid! I'm talent-spotting in the park, when I see a guy with a mower, trying to trim some baby's corns.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tab
- Synopsis
- When a guy with a lawn mower in the park comes close to a girl's feet, Tab adjusts his mower for him to teach him a lesson.
Is This the End?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- José Bielsa (signed as F. Bielsa)
- Inks
- José Bielsa (signed as F. Bielsa)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mum, mum, I've finished with Bill, I hate him... hate him!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lucy; Bill; Shani Marshall
- Synopsis
- Lucy and Bill go out to celebrate the anniversary of the day they met, but the date does not go well.
Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2009/10/jose-bielsa-en-uk.html.
[no title indexed]
Looking in on Life! / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kay Bewick
- Inks
- Kay Bewick
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My girl friend and I spent our holiday together at a boarding house this year...
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
Advice column letter presented in comic sequence format.
[no title indexed]
My Sister's Impossible Husband / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eeeekkk! What is it?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Eileen; Garfield; Cherry
- Synopsis
- Garfield spends most of the day trying to get the hose to work. That evening he discovers Eileen doesn't have a boy-friend at the moment and decides to fix her up.
Indexer Notes
Next week: When a Beatnik Has a Ball!
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["I'm fed up with married life! It's nothing but work, work, work!"]
-
2.
There's No Tomorrow
-
3.
His Kind of Girl
-
4.
["Bill and I haven't been hitting it off too well lately..."]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl -
5.
Burning Flame
-
6.
["Hi, kid! I'm talent-spotting in the park, when I see a guy with a mower, trying to trim some baby's corns."]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! -
7.
Is This the End?
-
8.
["My girl friend and I spent our holiday together at a boarding house this year..."]
Looking in on Life! -
9.
["Eeeekkk! What is it?"]
My Sister's Impossible Husband
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- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
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