Tender Love Stories #1

(February 1971)

My Kind of Music! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Katz ?

Inks

John Tartaglione

Colors

?

Letters

Irv Watanabe

Genre

romance

Characters

Midge Parker; Tommy Tucker; Celia French; Fred Boswell

Synopsis

Tommy leaves Midge to make his mark in the music world, but writes to let her know that things are going well and he is building for their future. But Midge becomes concerned when the letters stop and the phone doesn't ring. Eventually she tries going out with someone else, but her heart still belongs to Tommy. She decides to track Tommy down even if she makes a fool of herself. When she finds Tommy, she discovers he is playing in a dive and was to ashamed to let her know he was a flop.

Indexer Notes

New story. Credits per Nick Caputo, August 2015.

Doomed to Silence! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Louis Ravielli ?; Ross Andru (see notes)

Inks

Mike Esposito (see notes); Louis Ravielli ?

Colors

?

Letters

Jean Simek

Genre

romance

Characters

Ken Blaine; Linda Johnson; Nance Johnson

Synopsis

Linda and Nance performed a two sisters dance act, but the older Nance always treated Linda as a kid around men even though Linda was eighteen. Linda came to realize that Nance did it to cling to her fading youth. She confronted Nance about it and Nance pleaded with Linda to give a last chance with Ken. Despite Linda's feelings for Ken, she agreed for her sister's sake. But one night when Nance was out, Linda walked into the living room in her lingerie to discover that Ken was there looking for Nance. Struck by Linda's womanly features, Ken called Linda the next night to ask her out.

Reprints

• from Intimate Confessions (Avon, 1951 series) #2 (September-October 1951) [heavily revised]

Indexer Notes

Art is heavily revised/redrawn by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. New lettering replaces the original typeset by Jean Izzo. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.

Left at the Altar! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Everett Kinstler; Ross Andru (see notes)

Inks

Mike Esposito (see notes); Everett Kinstler

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

romance

Characters

Jim Mayhew; Joan Stevens; Dave Norton

Synopsis

On the day of her wedding, Joan receives a telegram telling her that her fiance couldn't go through with it and was leaving for Australia. Later, when Joan takes a vacation, she decides to do to a man what was done to her. She picks Dave as her target and they spend the following days doing everything together. The wedding date is set for the next day at the resort, but Joan leaves on the train that evening. She is having second thoughts about her plan and gets off at the next station. Then she bumps into Dave who had been executing the same plan she had, but had also had second thoughts.

Reprints

• from Intimate Confessions (Avon, 1951 series) #8 (March 1953)

Indexer Notes

Art heavily revised/redrawn from the original by Andru/Esposito. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.

Unfaithful! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Rosenberger; Ross Andru (see notes)

Inks

John Rosenberger

Colors

?

Letters

Jean Simek

Genre

romance

Characters

Frank Chisolm; Sally Bruce; Gilbert Trayne

Synopsis

Frank and Sally want to get married, but Frank doesn't earn enough yet to support them. He gets a new job that might make it possible, but he has to spend a year in South America. While Frank is gone, Sally's friend convinces her that she should have some fun and invites her to a party. At the party, Sally meets Gilbert and starts dating him. Eventually, Gilbert wants Sally to be his girl and Sally feels she loves him. When Frank returns home earlier than expected, she realizes it is Frank she loves, but she can't bring herself to tell Frank about Gilbert.

Reprints

• from Intimate Confessions (Avon, 1951 series) #8 (March 1953)

Indexer Notes

Art heavily altered/redrawn from original by Ross Andru and an unknown inker. New lettering by Jean Izzo.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Every Girl Can Be Beautiful! / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Jan Shelley

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Greetings! I'm Jan your beauty editor

Genre

romance

Keywords

advice

Would He Ever Be Mine? (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Norman Nodel; Bill Everett (see notes)

Inks

Bill Everett (see notes); Norman Nodel

Colors

?

Letters

Jean Simek

Genre

romance

Characters

Carol Ashley; Eric Thompson; Aunt Bella; Joey; Fran; Mr. Hadly; Ralph Benton; Joe Wilson; Rufe Tenton

Synopsis

Since grade school, Carol had enjoyed being passionate with lots of members of the opposite sex. After taking a job as a secretary in an insurance firm, she met Eric and forced herself to be the sweet girl he thought she was. Then she met Ralph and succumbed to his intense, demanding presence. But Ralph used her to help set up two men to be robbed at a hotel. Realizing after the fact what had happened, Carol confessed her role in the crime to Eric, then to the police.

Reprints

• from Intimate Confessions (Avon, 1951 series) #2 (September-October 1951)

Indexer Notes

Heavily revised/redrawn by Bill Everett, with new lettering by Jean Izzo. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.