Valentine
#15 August 1964
(15 August 1964)
IPC,
1957 Series
- Price
- 6d [0-0-6 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- published every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1964-08-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- Fred Baker (sourced) (editor)
Because
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If he doesn't say something soon I shall scream!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Brian; Betsy; Hubert; Fiona
- Synopsis
- Betsy longs to strike up a relationship with the shy man she notices during her lunch hour every day. She finally breaks through and they start seeing each other during their lunch hours until they are surprised one day by his wife and two kids.
- Reprints
-
in True Life Library Holiday Special (IPC, 1970 ? series) #[1970] (22 May 1970)
-
Come On
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you think I am trying to kidnap you?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Pete Dexter; Penny; Gaston; Bob; Mitch; Terry Geoff; Jezebel
- Synopsis
- Gaston invites Penny to go sailing with him at midnight out of St. Tropez, but when the rest of her singing group shows up, he shrugs and invites them all. The band plays music in the bay and afterwards, in an unguarded moment, Pete kisses Penny. Penny responds until she realizes she is kissing a married man. Suddenly there is a shout as Jez has gone overboard.
Indexer Notes
Note at the end of the story states: "Next week: Drama at the casino!"
Don't Throw Your Love Away
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This photo... is it really how I was three years ago?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Gaby; Phil; Ray
- Synopsis
- Gaby had been sure Phil had been Mister Right. Phil has a car and a good job and a stack of money. Gaby feels sure he is about to propose to her. But when Ray gives her a snapshot of their time together three years earlier, she realizes she doesn't enjoy her life as she had back then.
- Reprints
- in True Life Library Holiday Special (IPC, 1970 ? series) #[1970] (22 May 1970)
-
[no title indexed]
Dear Stevie / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Maurice Skye (per David Roach)
- Inks
- Maurice Skye (per David Roach)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stevie My trouble is... I fall in love too easily...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Sharon Vanstone; Jim Mason; Ted Brewster; Marge; Ron
- Synopsis
- Sharon falls in love with different boys easily and worries because most of her friends are going steady.
Indexer Notes
Letter from letter column turned into a picture story.
It's Over
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Summer's here again! And I hate every minute of it!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Sara; Mike; Jim; Nancy
- Synopsis
- Sara hates summer because when the tourists come to the coast, she always seems to have her boyfriend stolen. One summer she decides to leave the coast during the summer and work in the city. While there she meets Jim, whose fiancée is away vacationing on the coast for the summer. They start seeing each other as just friends, but when he kisses her she finds herself in the position of wanting to steal someone else's boyfriend.
- Reprints
-
in Heartbeat Romances (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #18 ([1970] ?) - in Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #805 (1 June 1970) which is reprinted
- in Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #1355 ([May] 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Artist credit from navarrobadia.blogspot.com.au.
"The song It's Over—words and music by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. Published by Acuff-Rose Publications Ltd. Recorded by Roy Orbison on London HLU9882."
It Won't Be Long
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Please... Mary! Remember... I, er... have a girlfriend!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Mary; Wendy; Douglas Tanner; Fiona; Wilbur J. Messenger
- Synopsis
- Wendy gets interested in the young hotel manager, but his girlfriend, the hotel owner's daughter, catches him kissing her on the beach. Wendy slips away and rejoins Mary. The girls are commenting on the lack of available boys on their holiday when a moorland mist comes up and they realize they're lost.
Indexer Notes
Note at the end of the story states: "Next week: So this is George!"
Show Me That You Care
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No, I'm sorry, we haven't got a cup of sugar to spare! Now if you will excuse me...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lana; Fred Brown; Marty Brown; Bruce
- Synopsis
- When the Browns move in next door, Lana does everything to avoid Marty Brown because he doesn't fit in with her social circle. Bruce dumps Lana because he thinks she is associated with the Browns. But when Lana accidentally sets fire to her home burning Bruce's letters, it is the Browns that take her family in.
- Reprints
- in Secret Dreams Romances (K. G. Murray, 1963 ? series) #15 ([1969 ?])
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Because
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2.
Come On
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3.
Don't Throw Your Love Away
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4.
["Dear Stevie My trouble is... I fall in love too easily..."]
Dear Stevie -
5.
It's Over
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6.
It Won't Be Long
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7.
Show Me That You Care
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- Steve Belknap
- Doug Brain
- James Zee
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