Marilyn
#23 September 1961
(23 September 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
- ?
[no title indexed]
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Julian Morote (signed as Julian)
- Inks
- Julian Morote (signed as Julian)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why did I ever agree to look after this baby!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- John [Jim]; Jean
- Synopsis
- A couple whose marriage is fraying have a bust-up when the wife agrees to look after a friend's baby for the weekend and she can't get the baby to stop crying.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of the lead story.
The signature on this cover includes "61 S.I.", for Spain's Selecciones Ilustradas agency in 1961.
Jean calls her husband John on the first two pages, but calls him Jim on the last two pages.
[no title indexed]
Cry, My Heart / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Every time you look in the miror, you'll remember... you killed my son!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Yvonne Murray; Mrs. Taylor; Jack; Mr. Norman;
- Synopsis
- Having settled in the small village of Denbymoor after leaving her home in Middlepool, Yvonne goes into the village to look for a job and encounters a blind mechanic.
Indexer Notes
Note at the end of the story states: "Next Week: The Man Who Couldn't See!".
End of the Affair
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Mack; Helen; Jean; Sue
- Synopsis
- After breaking up with Mack, Helen gets rid of the things that remind her of him, but she can't get rid of the Sinatra record with "My Blue Heaven".
[no title indexed]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cheer up-it may never happen!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Cliff; Tab; Linda; Barbara
- Synopsis
- Tab brags about the love letters he writes to Linda and offers to write some for Cliff to send to his girlfriend Barbara. Later, when Tab asks Linda about his latest letter, she says it was nice, but not as good as the ones Barbara gets from Cliff.
[no title indexed]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gran's got this huge crop of plums in her orchard.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Peg; Stan; Sue; Derek; Kenny
- Synopsis
- Peg and Stan offer to help Sue and her boyfriend pick plums from her grannie's orchard, but get their directions mixed up and end up picking plums from the wrong orchard.
High on a Hill Top
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jill Peters; Jack Osborne; Philip; Morton
- Synopsis
- On the train to meet her fiance for the weekend, Jill meets Jack who jokes about climbing a hill with her, but they don't speak much after he discovers she is engaged. Jill is disappointed when she discovers that her fiance wants to spend the weekend with a business associate and his wife. She gives him back her ring and tells him if he wants to see her, she will be on the top of the hill at eight o'clock. That evening, she climbs the hill, hoping her fiance won't be there and discovers that Jack is there instead.
[no title indexed]
Looking in on Life / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You'll make a very pretty bride, my dear.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Ava; Tony
- Synopsis
- Ava and Tony have been married for six months, but they live one street away from Tony's parents and his mother is always dropping by to help. It makes her feel she's not looking after Tony properly and she wonders what she can do without making a scene.
Indexer Notes
Advice column in picture story format.
[no title indexed]
My Sister's Impossible Husband / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's something brewing in Garfield's peanut brain. He's up to something!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Eileen; Cherry; Garfield; Mr. Jones; Charlie
- Synopsis
- When the neighbor brags about his pet dog, Garfield decides he has to get a dog too.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["Why did I ever agree to look after this baby!"]
-
2.
["Every time you look in the miror, you'll remember... you killed my son!"]
Cry, My Heart -
3.
End of the Affair
-
4.
["Cheer up-it may never happen!"]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! -
5.
["Gran's got this huge crop of plums in her orchard."]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl -
6.
High on a Hill Top
-
7.
["You'll make a very pretty bride, my dear."]
Looking in on Life -
8.
["There's something brewing in Garfield's peanut brain. He's up to something!"]
My Sister's Impossible Husband
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- Steve Belknap
- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
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