When lovely Topaz Silver stowed away in San Francisco it seemed to her she had the best reasons in the world.
Genre
romance
Characters
Topaz Silver; Dan Ryan
Synopsis
Topaz wants to be a Hollywood star and stows away in a lifeboat on a ship she thinks is bound for Los Angeles. She remains hidden under some canvas as the lifeboat is lowered into the water, but when it reaches land she finds she is actually on a South Seas island with the man who rowed the lifeboat ashore. Bad weather forces the ship to abandon them. When natives find them, they believe Topaz is the goddess whose coming was promised in their stories.
"Off-beat Highness" was also the cover story title for Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #696 (1968) and Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #1138 (1974).
Gosh, Isabel, you weren't kidding! He's a real dish...
Genre
romance
Characters
Isabel; Pat; Shirley Miller; Dusty Miller
Synopsis
Pat wonders why she has never seen the boyfriend that Isabel claims she has when Shirley says she has seen him. Shirley pulls a photograph of a sailor out of Isabel's handbag and Isabel goes along with Shirley's story, though she had never seen him. When the sailor shows up one day and kisses Isabel, she is stunned but continues to go along with it to avoid confessing that she had never seen him. But eventually Isabel finds out that he is Shirley's brother and Shirley had planned the entire thing as a joke.