Marilyn
#4 January 1964
(4 January 1964)
Amalgamated Press,
1955 Series
- Price
- 6D [0-0-6 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- published every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- Robert Lewis (per David Roach)
Not for Me
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New Year resolution number one... get rid of Fred!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jenny; Fred; Bernie
- Synopsis
- Jenny tries to break up with Fred, but he keeps following her. Then she learns that the reason he has been following her is that he's made a New Year's resolution never to see her again.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of this story.
A Kiss at Parting
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Anna, Sandy tells me you've been seeing young Weatherby. I want that to stop!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Anna; Mike Weatherby; Sandy
- Synopsis
- Anna goes to Switzerland for a year to forget Mike. While in Switzerland, she learns he is engaged. When she returns to England, she sees Mike by chance. Then the chance encounters turn into something else. After he kisses her, he asks her if she still loves him.
What's in a Name?
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tonight's our last night. Tonight I'll send him packing!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Betta; David Verity [Bert Klunk]
- Synopsis
- Betta can never get David to answer any questions about himself.
[no title indexed]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- E. Durrant (per David Roach)
- Pencils
- A.E. Allen (per David Roach)
- Inks
- A.E. Allen (per David Roach)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, bother! I've got another spot! My complexion's terrible lately.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Peg Dawson; Stan
- Synopsis
- Peg makes a New Year's resolution to give up sweets, but on New Year's Eve she decides to have one last bar of chocolate. However, the chocolate bar has turned bad. She writes the manufacturer an angry letter and receives a letter of apology along with a large supply of chocolates.
[no title indexed]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, kid! Ty and me's in the High Street, so we stop fro a gander in the window of Maison Jones...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Ty; Tab
- Synopsis
- Tab sets up a date by telephone with the blonde assistant who works at Maison Jones. He tells her he will be standing outside the Grand with a white carnation, but his friends double-cross him and show up with their own white carnations.
[no title indexed]
My Sister's Impossible Husband / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a mess! Clearing up after the party never puts me in a good mood!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Cherry; Garfield Popkins; Eileen
- Synopsis
- Everyone makes their New Year's resolutions.
[no title indexed]
Looking in on Life / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- A. Hailey (per David Roach)
- Pencils
- Kay Bewick (per David Roach)
- Inks
- Kay Bewick (per David Roach)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When I was a kid, there was a girl called jean at school, and we hated each other
- Characters
- Susan is keen on a cousin of her hated enemy.
Living Doll
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hate this! I hate it... I want to go home!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Julian; Anita
- Synopsis
- Julian takes Anita to a puppet show. Everyone else is laughing, but the girl puppet seems to be like her - always promising to leave her boyfriend, but never doing it.
- Reprints
in Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Not for Me
-
2.
A Kiss at Parting
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3.
What's in a Name?
-
4.
["Oh, bother! I've got another spot! My complexion's terrible lately."]
The Heart of a Teenage Girl -
5.
["Hi, kid! Ty and me's in the High Street, so we stop fro a gander in the window of Maison Jones..."]
Tab - He's a Boy with the Girls! -
6.
["What a mess! Clearing up after the party never puts me in a good mood!"]
My Sister's Impossible Husband -
7.
["When I was a kid, there was a girl called jean at school, and we hated each other"]
Looking in on Life -
8.
Living Doll
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- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
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