Valentine #18

(18 May 1957)

Some of These Days (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Maurice Skye

Inks

Maurice Skye

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

So! That's the way you behave when my back's turned! You're fired!

Genre

romance

Characters

Delia Dearing; Johnny James; Penny

Synopsis

A personal maid for a glamorous TV actress is repeatedly given the task of putting off one of the celebrity's ardent admirers. After she delivers a note for yet another broken date, he asks Penny out instead and she feels there is a strange harmony that seems to exist between them.

Only You (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Eric Dadswell

Inks

Eric Dadswell

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I tell you, sir... Professor Garvin's been murdered in his bunk!

Genre

romance

Characters

Anne Stirling; Captain Dangerfield; Professor Garvin; Greg Wendle; Sandra Delmonte

Synopsis

After being chloroformed, Professor Garvin's room had been ransacked. When the Captain questions the Professor, Anne learns that the two share some secret and the attackers had not found what they were looking for. As the "Calypso Queen" heads out for its three-month voyage to Jamaica, the young ship's stewardess makes a jealous enemy of a famous film star.

Indexer Notes

continuing serial

How Am I to Know? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

J. Ma. Miralles (signed)

Inks

J. Ma. Miralles (signed)

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I can't see anything... hold my hand... don't let me go... promise you won't leave me!

Genre

romance

Characters

Anna; Alice; Jim, Colin; Tom Carter

Synopsis

Resigned to being dismal and plain, Anna banishes all thoughts of romance and dedicates herself to the life of a nurse. Two years later, a handsome young patient is blinded in a train accident and they fall in love.

Because I Love You (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Roy Newby

Inks

Roy Newby

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Claire, Claire darling.. don't turn away from me...

Genre

romance

Characters

Claire Boothman; Glen; Roger Boothman

Synopsis

Ten years earlier, Claire's father had been jailed for embezzlement. Claire and her mother went to a Lake District where no one would know them. She meets Glen and falls in love, but discovers he is a newspaper reporter who had been sent to get the inside story on her father's case.

Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr (Table of Contents: 5)

Living Love Stories / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Maurice Skye

Inks

Maurice Skye

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

My name's Teddy Johnson, you must be Pearl Carr?

Genre

biography; romance

Characters

Teddy Johnson; Pearl Carr

Synopsis

Teddy Johnson's courtship of Pearl Carr.

Anyone Can Fall in Love (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rab Hamilton

Inks

Rab Hamilton

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Cold or doh cold I'b going to fight Apeman Harker toborrow ad I'b going to beat him!

Genre

romance

Characters

Cindy; Robin Jolly; Archie; Lola Peabody

Synopsis

Robin has a terrible cold and Cindy demands he not go through with the prize-fight he has scheduled for the next day. But a glamorous woman visits Robin and she wants to televise the fight to promote her company's haircream.

Indexer Notes

continuing serial

Where There's You (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Carrillo (signed) ([as Carrillo])

Inks

Carrillo (signed) ([as Carrillo])

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here's your dog! I wish you'd keep the unruly brute in order... he's just eaten one of my slippers!

Genre

romance

Characters

Jane; Sam; Roy Peters; Sadie

Synopsis

Sam had left six years earlier, but had promised to return to marry Jane. After receiving a letter from Sam that morning, saying he was returning with a wonderful surprise for her, a stranger shows up at her door with a scruffy mongrel dog, thinking it belongs to her. When they discover that no one has reported a missing dog, they decide to adopt it together rather than take it to the dogs' home.