Valentine
#2 November 1968
(2 November 1968)
IPC,
1957 Series
- Price
- 7d [0-0-7 GBP]
- Pages
- 28 ?
- Indicia Frequency
- weekly
- On-sale Date
- 1968
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- ?
Turn Turn Turn
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mm! There's something marvellous in the air!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Dave; Sheena Grey; Robin Blake; Mrs. Grey
- Synopsis
- Sheena falls for a struggling student that her mother lets stay with them while he is in school, but he spends all his time studying. Meanwhile, Sheena helps a neighbor who is trying to sell a mechanical gadget he's invented. The student leaves as soon as he finishes his exams, but returns when he's landed a good job to propose to Sheena. However, Sheen realizes he only wants a pretty plaything, not someone to share his life.
Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2011/10/juan-sole-puyal-en-uk.html.
The first page of this story serves as part of the cover.
Every Time I See You I Go Wild
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Help! Th-there's an Egyptian mummy in my room!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- George Farmer; Abby
- Synopsis
- After Abby's boyfriend picks up the book "Man with a Thousand Faces" and decides to become a master of disguise, he is constantly surprising her with his disguises. He promises to behave himself when he takes her to a restaurant to celebrate her birthday. When he excuses himself to get a surprise for her, a man in a turban asks if he can sit with her. Assuming it is George in disguise, she blows her top and causes a scene in the restaurant.
- Reprints
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in Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #1198 ([October] 1974)
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Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2009/12/manfred-sommer-en-uk.html.
Story 'inspired' by the song title "Every Time I See You I Go Wild", sung by Stevie Wonder.
A Man Without Love
comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jenny... it has always been Jenny for me. I have never even thought of another girl.
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jenny; David Miles; Mr. Charlton
- Synopsis
- David had thrilled to her school mates calling him 'Jenny's fellow', but as he gets older Jenny uses him more and more. When he gets a job as a waiter a Gino's, Jenny expects her and her friends to get food and drinks from him for free. Desperate to please her, he takes money from the till. When he is caught, he is put on probation. He gets a job pumping gas at a garage, but to compete with Jenny's new boyfriends, he takes a loan for a car he can't afford. After violating his probation, he is sent to detention for six months. When he gets out, he discovers Jenny has married someone else.
- Reprints
- in Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #1194 ([September] 1974) [modified to fit digest size]
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World
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Butchers like you killed my wife! But you ain't gonna carve up my kid!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Nurse Judy Appleby; Dr. Mark Fury; Aaron Ladlow: Jezz
- Synopsis
- Jezz intervenes to let the doctor perform the operation on Ladlow's son, whose appendix is about to rupture. The operation is a success, but Dr. Fury offers to have himself handed over to the sheriff for performing the operation without the father's permission. However, a grateful Ladlow shakes the doctor's hand and asks for forgiveness. With Judy's busman's holiday nearly over, she is packing to leave when she gets a phone call from an old acquaintance.
Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2010/05/enric-badia-romero-en-u-k.html.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Turn Turn Turn
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2.
Every Time I See You I Go Wild
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3.
A Man Without Love
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4.
World
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5.
I Kept Her Secret
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- Steve Belknap
- Doug Brain
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