Romeo
#76
(February 7th, 1959)
D.C. Thomson,
1957 Series
- Price
- 4d [0-0-4 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd
To the Man I Love
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It wasn't Cupid's arrow that struck Jill Turner... it was a cricket ball. But it started something.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jill Turner; Ted Wayne; Irene; Moyra Frame
- Synopsis
- When Jill sees the new assistant manager playing cricket without a club sweater, she decides to knit him one for his birthday. She intends to post it anonymously, but Moyra discovers it in Jill's desk and all the office girls tease Jill about it. But when Ted comes in, he covers for Jill and takes her out that evening to celebrate.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of this story. The cover is the only page of this story in colour.
Dean Martin
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dean Martin... six feet of muscle and brown-eyed charm, with a voice like dripping honey.
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis
- Synopsis
- The career of Dean Martin.
Clunie Todd
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Clunie, but who's the smooth-looking character with her?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Clunie Todd; Harry Pollard; Max Denning; David Millar; Sandra Lewis; Jack Markingham
- Synopsis
- Sandra takes Clunie to the night club where she performs and arranges for Clunie to meet Crazy Jack. Jack drives Clunie to the countryside and has an accident on the way back. Clunie has no money and has to walk home. David and Max show up at her flat the next morning, but Clunie still hasn't arrived and Sandra tells them that she left the club about midnight with a man.
Indexer Notes
continuing story
Tommy's Party Trick
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At a party to celebrate the launching of a new record, the conversation somehow turned to hypnotism.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tommy Steele; Kathleen Conway; David Evans
- Synopsis
- Tommy wins a bet by using hypnotism to get a maid to kiss the first man she meets when she leaves the room. That man just happened to be the boyfriend she had been quarrelling with.
Indexer Notes
This is one of several stories featuring Tommy Steele that ran each week in Romeo.
Millie the Model
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A most romantic scene is this, as lovers exchange a good-bye kiss!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Millie; Clicker
- Synopsis
- Millie and Clicker are among the couples kissing each other at the train station, except they aren't going anywhere.
- Reprints
-
from Millie the Model Comics (Marvel, 1945 series) #81 (November 1957)
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Sing in the Rain
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Raining? Who cares? Fashion's gone to town on rainwear, so no more drab raincoats with scarves tied over your heads!
- Genre
- fashion
- Synopsis
- Fashions for rainy weather.
Wild Streak
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jeff took Jill along to the committee room.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jill Radford; Jeff Ellerton; Sybil Norbury; Mr. Norbury; Mrs. Trimbley
- Synopsis
- Although Wild Streak won the race with Jill riding him, the vet reports that the horse was given dope of some sort before the race. The committee makes it clear that she is to have nothing further to do with the horses and Jeff has to ask her to leave.
Indexer Notes
continuing story
Why Do You Haunt Me?
comic story / 2.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- She fell for him, hook, line and sinker, the day they first met. He walked into her flower shop, and smiled.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Kay Summers; Susan Webb; Johnny; Bill
- Synopsis
- Although Johnny is friendly with Kay, he is always buying flowers for Susan Webb, the prettiest, wittiest and richest girl in town. He has to leave on a longish trip, but pays in advance to have the red roses continued to be delivered while he is at sea. When he returns he asks Kay out, but she isn't sure what to say as she catches a headline saying that Susan Webb is to be wed.
[no title indexed]
Rose the Slave Girl / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An angel from heaven!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Rose; Rufus; Miki The Dwarf; Prince Valla; Princess Lotus; Wolf of Hakim; Baba; Martha
- Synopsis
- Rose slides down a rope to escape, but is caught by the Wolf's sentries. She fools the sentries by telling them she and her companions were practising the Indian rope trick. Meanwhile, the innkeeper and his wife wrap up Princess Lotus in a big cloak and use a trapdoor to take her to a secret tunnel just as the soldiers enter the inn.
Indexer Notes
continuing story
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
To the Man I Love
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2.
Dean Martin
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3.
Clunie Todd
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4.
Tommy's Party Trick
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5.
Millie the Model
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6.
Sing in the Rain
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7.
Wild Streak
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8.
Why Do You Haunt Me?
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9.
["An angel from heaven!"]
Rose the Slave Girl
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- Ramon Schenk
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