Secret Hearts
#131
(October 1968)
DC,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of February, May, August and November
- On-sale Date
- 1968-08-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Jack Miller
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Reach for Happiness! / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Tony Abruzzo ?; Carmine Infantino ? (see notes)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- She is very beautiful...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Dr. Greg Marsh; Rita Phillips; Karen Wilder Sommers
Indexer Notes
Nick Caputo suspects Infantino provided the cover layout and Abruzzo the finished pencils. Cover is also used as splash page for interior story.
Pity -- Not Love
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- On Jimmy and Linda's first date, a car accident makes it unlikely that Linda will ever walk again. Though Jimmy stays by her side, Linda fears that he only pities her.
Indexer Notes
Sekowsky pencils and Roussos inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Jay Scott Pike on pencils and inks.
Duel of Hearts!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Draut
- Inks
- Bill Draut
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Editing
- Phyllis Reed (original story)
- Genre
- romance
- Synopsis
- Abby's childhood friend Maureen always gets for herself exactly what Abby has. When they grow up, Maureen goes after Abby's boyfriend Barry, and Abby assumes Maureen will get him too.
- Reprints
-
from Girls' Love Stories (DC, 1949 series) #73 (September 1960)
-
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer credited Tony Abruzzo and Bernie Sachs on art.
Episode 22
Reach for Happiness! / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Jack Miller
- Pencils
- Jay Scott Pike (pages 2-15); Tony Abruzzo ? (splash); Carmine Infantino ? (splash)
- Inks
- Jay Scott Pike (pages 1-2); George Roussos (pages 3-16); Dick Giordano (splash)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (page 2); Ira Schnapp (pages 1-2); John Duffy (pages 3-16)
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Karen Wilder Sommers; Barry Gordon; B. W.; Dr, Greg Marsh; Rita Phillips
- Synopsis
- Karen convinces B. W. not to fire Barry. When the powerful producer offers Karen a chance to star in his movies, she fantasizes about how her former fiancee Greg will react when he takes his new girlfriend Rita to see her onscreen.
Indexer Notes
script credit suggested by the Who's Who of American Comic Books.
Art credits per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Vince Colletta on inks.
[no title indexed]
Ann Martin, Counselor-at-Love / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Ann Martin
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky (logo illustration)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- romance
Indexer Notes
advice column; reader poll indicates that they want the Reach for Happiness serial to leave Hollywood and return to its original small town setting
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["She is very beautiful..."]
Reach for Happiness! -
1.
Pity -- Not Love
-
2.
Duel of Hearts!
-
3.
Episode 22
Reach for Happiness! -
4.
[no title indexed]
Ann Martin, Counselor-at-Love
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Edgar Loftin
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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