Love Romances
#83
(September 1959)
Marvel,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Male Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Don't Let Me Be an Old Maid!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-???
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When a girl has passed the age of consent and continues onward without a sign of the right man, her heart grows full of apprehension...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Joan Bryer; Ernie Roberts; Aaron Bromfield; Fred; Edie
- Synopsis
- When the company's best salesman asks Joanie to marry him, she can hear her heart say "you don't love him". She speaks to her boss the next day and he asks her if she actually knows what love is. It is then that she realizes that it is her boss that she loves.
- Reprints
-
in Red Rose Romances (Picture Story Publications, 1959 ? series) #31 ? ([January 1960 ?]) [black-and-white reprint modified to fit digest size]
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Indexer Notes
Some inks by someone other than Colletta.
There is no Job No. on this story.
Two Of A Kind
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-682
- Genre
- romance
- Reprints
-
in Modeling with Millie (Marvel, 1963 series) #28 (December 1963)
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Indexer Notes
2nd page of story has two crude hearts where most text stories have an illustration. Truly not worth mentioning.
Can't You See I Love You?
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jay Scott Pike (signed)
- Inks
- Jay Scott Pike (signed); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am a qualified teacher, Mr. Bradley, but I gave it up to become my father's housekeeper until he passed away!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Hugh Bradley; Billy Bradley; Anne Sutton; Emily Tuttle
- Synopsis
- Anne gets a job as a housekeeper for the Bradley family and tutor for little Billy. After over a year, she begins to fall in love with the father but cannot tell anyone. Then one day Mr. Bradley finds her diary on the table.
Indexer Notes
Looks like another hand involved with the inks.
There is no Job No. assigned to this story - possibly because the story is a reworking of an earlier romance story with exactly the same plot. Perhaps Pike was just given the old story as a script...?
Give Back My Heart!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-378
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That house is a house of happiness! Inside there dwells love and quiet unity...and two people who know the value of love!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Ginny; Jan; Mark Farley
- Synopsis
- In college, Jan was studying to be a scientist, but Ginny wanted to be a good time gal. Eventually, Ginny learns that men like to take out girls like her to have a good time, but when it comes to marriage they want serious girls like Jan.
Indexer Notes
Signed by Sinnott in the last panel.
I Searched For Romance
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-374
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's lots of space in the farmlands... but it's not the world!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Laurie Carter; Lizzy Lydecker; Jane; Dolly; Ross Billings; Fleming; Mamie Campbell
- Synopsis
- Laurie dreams of the glamor of the big city. She leaves her small town and gets a job in the city. Her boss takes an immediate interest in her and soon she is living the life she had dreamed of. But then her boss reveals his goal is to get away from the rat race and move to the country with her.
Indexer Notes
Possibly signed "Le Poer" under bumper of car in splash.
Don't Try To Tame Me!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-363
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Being born with the Masefield millions, cleverness, and beauty, made me something special and I knew it!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Laura Masefield; Red Forester; Dicky Wadsworth; Morgan Morrison; Ed Norris
- Synopsis
- Laura has never sacrificed anything for her own comfort and pleasure. When Red arrives to do a story on her for "The Blade" newspaper, she is honest with him and doesn't try to paint herself as charitable or misunderstood. But when they are sideswiped by a truck on the way back from the beach, Laura risks her life to save Red from falling off a cliff.
Indexer Notes
Colletta & company on inks. Several hands involved.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Don't Try to Tame Me!
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1.
Don't Let Me Be an Old Maid!
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2.
Two Of A Kind
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3.
Can't You See I Love You?
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4.
Give Back My Heart!
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5.
I Searched For Romance
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6.
Don't Try To Tame Me!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Steve Belknap
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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