Romantic Story
#33
(August 1956)
Charlton,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (Executive Editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (signed as
GIORDANO [large "O"]) - Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (signed as
D'AGOSTINO) - Colors
- ?
- Genre
- romance
My Dream Man
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- S866
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lise Todd; Manfred Drake; Ted Drake; Ralph
- Synopsis
- Actress Lise idolizes famous actor Manfred, who offers to give her voice lessons and later professes his love for her. Manfred’s son Ted warns Lise that Manfred is just using her to try and recapture his lost stardom. Lise is angry at Ted but Manfred admits the truth and Ted confesses he loves Lise himself.
The Missing Key
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S832
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Janice; Eve Abbott; Fred Cullen; Kurt Johnson; Dick Strong; Bob Smith
- Synopsis
- Janice is a serious university student with no social life. Her roommate Eve gives her a makeover and Janice becomes popular. Eve’s boyfriend Bob even says he loves Janice, but she won’t betray her best friend. Instead, Janice decides she loves fellow bookworm Fred.
Indexer Notes
Molno pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Charles Nicholas.
I Wanted to Live
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S815
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Doris; Don Bolling; Bob; Mr. Bolling
- Synopsis
- Doris loves Bob but he accepts an engineering job in Central America and will be away for two years. Bob’s friend Don agrees to “look after” Doris for his pal. They spend a lot of time together, but Doris remains faithful to Bob. Bob contracts malaria and comes home: he’ll marry Doris right away.
Indexer Notes
Nicholas and D'Agostino credits per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rocco Mastroserio.
I Lied About Love
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S854
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tad Norris; Rita Mann; May Clary; Mr. Welles
- Synopsis
- Secretary Rita wants to marry a successful man and decides young engineer Tad is a good prospect. Rita’s campaign to hook Tad seems to be working but when she admits to co-worker May that she’s marrying Tad because “he’ll give me the things I want” but she’ll have to “learn to love him,” Tad overhears and breaks their engagement. Rita follows him to Central America and apologizes, as well as saving his life from a landslide. Tad decides he will marry her after all.
- Reprints
-
in Love Confessions Illustrated (Magazine Management, 1968 ? series) #3448 ([February 1974])
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[no title indexed]
Beauty Briefs / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- [None]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Warm weather brings thoughts of the beach
- Characters
- Helen Leeds; Dot; Billy; Betty Rogers
- Synopsis
- Helen is self-conscious about her poor posture. She improves it and her social life improves as well.
- Reprints
-
from True Life Secrets (Charlton, 1951 series) #1 (March-April 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Original version was inside back cover, black-and-white but the art has been coloured in the reprint.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
My Dream Man
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2.
The Missing Key
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3.
From Hunger to Romance
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4.
I Wanted to Live
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5.
I Lied About Love
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6.
["Warm weather brings thoughts of the beach"]
Beauty Briefs
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Katy Hayhurst
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- David Wilt
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