(September 1952)
Charlton,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Romantic Love Stories, Inc.
- Editing
- Alfred V. Fago
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
Full page illustration with table of contents on inside front cover, black-and-white. Four stories are listed but only 3 match the actual story titles in the comic: the other one is "My Bitter Experience" which probably refers to the first story "Older and Wiser," which is not listed on the contents page.
Older and Wiser!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Norma Smith; The Runt; The Lug; Charlie
- Synopsis
- Norma leaves her coal-miner husband and becomes a model in the big city. She's then hired to dance in a nightclub; part of her act is to distribute beads from her necklace to certain customers. However, she's arrested because the beads contain dope. Her boss clears her of wrongdoing and Norma returns to her husband, who takes her back.
- Keywords
- drug dealing
My Secret Betrayed Me
comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Ann Dowling; Myrt Dowling; Mr. Dowling; Mrs. Dowling; Roland Storm
- Synopsis
- Ann resents her younger sister Myrt, whose dancing ability helps make her a star under the name "Jessica." Ann starts to impersonate Myrt around their hometown; she even fools wealthy Roland, who is in love with Myrt. However, Ann discovers she doesn't like the phony world of theatrical hangers-on, and confesses everything to Roland, who hits her. Ann drops her masquerade and returns to her own life, happier now. She also discovers Myrt has married the real Roland, and the man she had been dating was another impostor.
- Reprints
-
in True Life Secrets (L. Miller & Son, 1952 series) #18 -
in Weird Love (IDW, 2014 series) #18 (May 2017) - in Weird Love (IDW, 2015 series) #6 - So This Is Love! (February 2018)
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I Was A Pawn of Passion
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Cynthia Walker; Dr. Gene Studjzen; Ronnie
- Synopsis
- Nurse Cynthia loves doctor Gene. After a train wreck, Cynthia sees Gene worrying about a young woman victim. Cynthia jealously decides to kill her by substituting water for medicine; she later changes her mind but the woman is dead. Cynthia goes to work in another hospital across the country. She and doctor Ronnie fall in love. After another train wreck, Cynthia discovers Gene is one of the injured; he tells her that the woman died of her injuries and it wasn't Cynthia's fault. A jealous Ronnie tries to pull the same scheme to kill Gene but Cynthia stops him. They decide to get married.
- Reprints
Key To My Heart
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Deborah Devershire; Richard Keaton; Mr. Erson; Jennifer; Dexter Cornwalis
- Synopsis
- Deborah idolizes her late father and runs her family estate as she imagines he would, ruthlessly. She decides to marry Richard, who strongly resembles her father, to make sure she has an heir. Richard doesn't love her and after their marriage says she doesn't deserve a child. He leaves and she realizes she does love him, and her image of her father is a false one. They reconcile.
- Reprints
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Older and Wiser!
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3.
My Secret Betrayed Me
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4.
My Moment of Madness
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5.
I Was A Pawn of Passion
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6.
Key To My Heart
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7.
Strictly For the Brides
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Devine
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
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