Love Diary
#1
(July 1949)
Orbit-Wanted,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Our Publishing Co.
- Editing
- Rae Hermann
I Was Branded a Flirt, a Nurse Confesses
Victoria Paige-Jim Stanton / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Vicky Paige; Dr. James Stanton; Susan; Dr. Bob Meadows; Miss Edson; Mrs. Martin; Herman Danzig; Dr. Harris
- Synopsis
- Nurse Vicky’s boyfriend, intern Bob, won’t be financially able to marry her for years. They argue over her flirtatious ways and break up. Dr. James and Vicky begin dating. Through their neglect of duty, an epidemic ravages the hospital. Vicky works hard to make up for her error. She discovers Bob has fallen in love with another nurse, Susan. Vicky joins an expedition to the tropics to study Rickettsial fever. James is also on the trip but he is cool to her. Vicky infects herself with fever so James can test his new serum. She survives and their love does as well.
Indexer Notes
This was the first story in a continuing series featuring nurse Victoria Paige and Dr. Jim Stanton.
I Wanted Excitement
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Kathy Berwick; Tommy; Donald Evans; Connie; Peggy; Mrs. Berwick; Roger Schuyler
- Synopsis
- Kathy is bored with her hometown boyfriend Tommy. She quits her store clerk’s job and becomes a model for Donald’s agency. She dates playboy Roger but their wild social life causes her to lose her modeling job. Discovering Roger is a philanderer, Kathy drives off in a rush and crashes her car, badly injuring her face. When she recovers, she no longer looks the same but faithful Tommy still loves her.
Indexer Notes
Kathy's last name is given "Ferrick" in one panel, but most of the time it's "Berwick."
The Man I Wanted
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Gloria; Don Richards; Ethel Hilton; Robert Hilton; Helen Rice
- Synopsis
- After her father’s death, Gloria moves to the city to live with her sister Ethel and Ethel’s high society husband Robert. Tired of their stuffy life, Gloria goes skating and meets bad boy Don. Robert and Ethel warn her to stay away from him but Gloria defies them. However, when Don tries to use her as a human shield to avoid arrest, Gloria helps the police capture him. She apologizes to her sister and Robert for her headstrong ways.
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Table of Contents
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1.
I Was Branded a Flirt, a Nurse Confesses
Victoria Paige-Jim Stanton -
2.
Shall I Pet?
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3.
I Wanted Excitement
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4.
The Man I Wanted
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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