Valentine
#9 March 1963
(9 March 1963)
IPC,
1957 Series
- Price
- 6d [0-0-6 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- published every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
- Editing
- ?
You 'n' Me
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Bert; Brian West; Lena
- Synopsis
- Bert has gotten so wrapped up in space travel that it has ruined Lena's romance with him. A friend of Lena's, who works in the rocket establishment at Harton, cures Bert of his desire for space travel by placing him in the Whirlwind, a device whose little cabins go round and round at high speed... just like a space flight.
Indexer Notes
The cover serves as the first page of the lead story.
[no title indexed]
Once in a Lifetime / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This man.. this stranger.. why am I letting him hold me?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Carol; Derek; Jeff; Janice Starr
- Synopsis
- Panic breaks out among four passengers when a funicular railway car has suddenly come to a halt high in mid-air somewhere in the Swiss mountains. Carol jerks away from Derek, the only man of the party, thinking about how she failed Jeff. As she breaks away from him, Derek thinks back to the night he told his wife, a beautiful and famous singing star, that he had lost his job. She told him he wasn't cut out for work anyway and they could live on her money. So she went off to her big reception and he ran away to Switzerland.
Indexer Notes
Picture-serial 'inspired' by the song title "Once in a Lifetime", sung by Jimmy Justice.
Blurb at the end of the sequence states: "Next week: Just One More Chance!".
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2009/12/jordi-longaron-en-uk.html.
Playin' Games
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jean; Gran; Hugo; Bill Hodges; Mike Hughes
- Synopsis
- Jean goes to Gran to get predictions about her love life. Aggravating Bill is always there to play cards with Gran and he makes fun of Jean's interest in the tea-leaves. When Hugo asks Jean to marry him and live overseas. Jean returns to Gran to see what the tea-leaves say about her getting married.
Indexer Notes
Story 'inspired' by the song title "Playin' Games", sung by Connie Francis.
Artist's signature is followed by "SI 62", indicating the year it was drawn and that the artist worked for the Selecciones Ilustradas Spanish art agency.
I'd Been Playing Nurse to Mum...
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- fashion
- Characters
- Pierre
- Synopsis
- Dad's surprise present leads her to a party where she meets Pierre.
Indexer Notes
Story is a vehicle for a fashion and beauty guide.
[no title indexed]
Dear Stevie... / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Two years ago I loved a boy ...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Audrey Edwards; Ian
- Synopsis
- Audrey and Ian had been in love two years ago and had talked of marriage. Then, after he took a job in another town, he suddenly wrote to break it off. Later she learned that he had to go into a sanatorium for at least a year. She wrote to him and visited him once or twice. When he got out, they wanted to get married, but Audrey's parents were against it.
Indexer Notes
Advice column in picture story format.
[no title indexed]
Be Mine / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When I opened he door and this handsome boy said he was George Meridew... well!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Debby Carpenter; George Meridew
- Synopsis
- George (who lives in Australia) and Debby inherit a house jointly under the terms of Debby's uncle's will. George comes to England and meets Debby. They agree to fix up the house before selling it. Although George shows Debby a picture of his girlfriend and Debby counters with a picture of her boyfriend, they are secretly attracted to each other.
Indexer Notes
Picture-serial 'inspired' by the song title "Be Mine", sung by Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr.
Blurb at the end of the sequence states: "Next week: A Pot of Paint!".
Music for Strings
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jacky; Babs; Mrs. Parfitt; George
- Synopsis
- Jacky and Babs want to leave their flat, but the landlady insists they pay a month's notice and watches them closely. Babs gets the idea of having Jacky sneak their possessions out in a cello case. The plan works as far as the bus-stop, but George comes to Jacky's rescue when he helps her get her case to the top level. It takes several trips to get their stuff out, but Jacky doesn't mind as long as George is there to help, although she deceives him about liking music. On the last load the case breaks open, but again George is there to tell the landlady she only gets one week's notice.
Indexer Notes
Story 'inspired' by the song title "Music for Strings", sung by Eden Kane.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
You 'n' Me
-
2.
["This man.. this stranger.. why am I letting him hold me?"]
Once in a Lifetime -
3.
Playin' Games
-
4.
The WRAC Got the Mails Through
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5.
I'd Been Playing Nurse to Mum...
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6.
["Two years ago I loved a boy ..."]
Dear Stevie... -
7.
["When I opened he door and this handsome boy said he was George Meridew... well!"]
Be Mine -
8.
Music for Strings
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- Steve Belknap
- Peter Croome
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