Heart Throbs #88

(February-March 1964)

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All-Star Pix / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

My Kind of Love! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Art Peddy

Inks

Art Peddy ?

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, come on, Bill -- let's dance! You're not a married man, yet!

Genre

romance

Characters

Bill Winters; Janet; Gail; Dr. Allen Hurley; Mrs. Loomer

Synopsis

Janet falls for the sales manager at the office where she works. When everyone at the firm is invited to spend a week-end at the Valley Lodge, she sees the sales manager embracing another girl from the office. Distraught, she walks off aimlessly and gets lost in the snow. She is saved by a doctor and recuperates at his home in the care of him and his housekeeper.

Reprints

• in Calypso (Arédit-Artima, 1962 series) #16 (janvier 1966)

Keywords

book; snow

Can There Be Someone Else? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Werner Roth ?

Inks

Bernard Sachs

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How can I say this? How can I make it hurt less, Amy? I ... I just ... just don't feel anything for you anymore...

Genre

romance

Characters

Amy; Hank; Joan

Synopsis

With Hank away on one of his business trips, Amy struggles to find the words to tell him she doesn't love him anymore. When she hears Hank tell her he doesn't feel anything for her anymore, instead of being relieved she is upset. She awakens to discover it had been a dream and when she greets Hank at the airport, she realizes she still loves him.

Keywords

airport

Indexer Notes

Possible Roth pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Mike Sekowsky.

This Is Our Moment (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky

Inks

Bernard Sachs

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Let my search be over... oh, let it be over!

Genre

romance

Characters

Bruce; Lisa

Synopsis

Lisa returns to the quiet town by the sea where three years earlier she had spent a week having a romantic encounter with a man she had met there, both knowing they would be going back to their separate lives in a few days.

Reprints

• in Cinévision (Arédit-Artima, 1962 series) #16 (janvier 1966) [reduced to fit digest size]

Keywords

Colosseum; Eiffel Tower; shore; windmill

Love Me Like I Love You; The Greatest Hurt; Your Time Will Come (Table of Contents: 5)

The Rhyme and Reason for Love and Romance / text article / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Petronich; Betty Butler

Letters

typeset

Genre

romance

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Love Me Not for Beauty Only! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Abruzzo

Inks

Joe Giella

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I had always been beautiful and accepted the fact gratefully--but when my beauty became so outstanding that nothing else about me was considered important, I found myself pleading...

Genre

romance

Characters

Danny; Philip; Sue

Synopsis

Sue is so beautiful that nobody seems to care that she has a heart and a mind too. She is cast as the ugly duckling in a stage production so the audience will be stunned by the transformation into her beautiful self in the last act. Leaving rehearsals one evening without changing from her 'ugly duckling' role, she meets Philip who enjoys having a serious discussion with her. They continue seeing each other, but later at a cast party after the opening night show in a popular night spot, she sees Philip come in with a beautiful girl.

Keywords

violin

Indexer Notes

Splash page art also used for cover.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Cleopatra Tote Bag / advertisement / 1 page (report information)