Valentine
#19 October 1968
(19 October 1968)
IPC,
1957 Series
- Price
- 7d [0-0-7 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- Published every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1968
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fleetway Publications Ltd.
This Guy's in Love
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And here's your heart-throb, girls! Deejay Dominic DeFarge!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Dominic DeFarge [Bill Entwhistle]; Julian; David Dare; Bert Fiske; Jenny
- Synopsis
- Jenny's boyfriend at the mill uses his gift of gab to turn a talent show spot at the mill into a television deejay spot in London. He is so busy there that she only gets scribbled postcards from him. But when he is asked on television if he has a steady, his response enrages her and she goes to London to confront him.
Indexer Notes
The first page of this story provides part of the cover.
Artist credits provided by David Roach.
This Wheel's on Fire
text story / 2.25 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Maybe I shouldn't have told you that. About Caroline, I mean.
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
Artist credits provided by David Roach.
The Journey
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Breathlessly, I watched Fraser and Michael clamber on to the raft...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Valerie Penn; Fraser Thorn; Michael Stannicos; Liz
- Synopsis
- Valerie and her friends rescue their Liz from being sacrificed by Michael's father to fulfill an ancient legend, but as their boat tries to get away it is hit by a monster wave and is about to capsize.
Indexer Notes
Next week: Edge of Doom!
Artist credits confirmed by David Roach.
I Was Made to Love Her
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When I came round my landlady was doing the Flo Nighingale act ...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Bill; Mrs. Jones; Rose Jackson [Jackie]
- Synopsis
- Bill is obsessed with a dream girl and is thinking about her when he steps in front of a scooter. When he meets the rider of the scooter, she is just as he had imagined his dream girl, Jackie.
- Reprints
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in Love Story Picture Library (IPC, 1952 series) #1211 ([November] 1974) [modified to fit digest size]
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Indexer Notes
Artist's credits are based on information provided by David Roach at http://deskartesmil.blogspot.com/2009/06/luis-garcia-en-uk.html.
[no title indexed]
World / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Keep away, Judy! This stuff will suck you in, too!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Nurse Judy Appleby; Doctor Mark Fury; Aaron Ladlow
- Synopsis
- Judy saves Mark from the quicksand. When they get to the mountain shacks, they vaccinate all the children except the Ladlow children. Their father hates all doctors since his wife died. When Mark and Judy hear one of his youngsters is "mighty sick", they go there anyway and are met with gunshots from Ladlow and a warning to get off his land.
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.
In Love with Love
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stevie, I belong to our local youth club... and four months ago we went hiking one Sunday morning...
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
One page devoted to traditional advice column letters and a second page devoted to one of the letters converted into a comic story sequence.
Artist credits provided by David Roach.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
This Guy's in Love
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2.
This Wheel's on Fire
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3.
The Journey
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4.
I Was Made to Love Her
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5.
["Keep away, Judy! This stuff will suck you in, too!"]
World -
6.
In Love with Love
This issue was modified by
- Steve Belknap
- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
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