Love Diary #35

(June 1953)

His Kind of Love! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Leav (signed)

Inks

Mort Leav (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

romance

Characters

Skeets Bradley; Mindy Carew; Binky Barnett; Hank Stevens; Chuck

Synopsis

Student teacher Mindy and her friends go to Mardi Gras on vacation. Mindy falls for jazz player Skeets, “a wizard with the clarinet!” She decides to stay in New Orleans with him, but he doesn’t seem to care about being financially rewarded for his genius. Seeing the poverty-stricken old age of jazz great Binky reinforces her concern. Skeets agrees to audition for a secure job with Hank’s orchestra but fails to show up. Mindy calls him a “music hobo” and they break up. She gets a teaching job and tries to forget him. Skeets reappears: he took the orchestra job and now they can be married.

Keywords

jazz

The Girl That I Marry (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

John Buscema

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

romance

Characters

Jeffrey Holmes; Lisa Hamilton; Jane; Ellen; Joe; Lionel; Mike

Synopsis

Architect Jeff is a confirmed bachelor because his married friends have wives that are clinging, jealous, and quarrelsome. Jeff falls for Lisa but eventually discovers she is at times quarrelsome, jealous, and dependent. He tries to break up with her but Lisa says “I’ll be any kind of person you want me to be,” and he decides she is good enough to marry, after all.

Reprints

• in Weird Love (IDW, 2014 series) #20 (September 2017)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from the French fan magazine Back Up #14, as submitted by Stephane Petit, via the GCD Errors list, February 2009.
Additional infos come from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.
Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.

Secrets from a Love Diary (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Barbara Blake (beauty editor)

Letters

typeset

Genre

romance

Keywords

beauty

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Prescription for Happiness / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Many people with love problems seek the expert counsel of Ray Mann!

Genre

romance

Characters

Ray Mann; Connie H.; Tom Ryan; Ralph Linton

Synopsis

Connie gives in to the romantic proposal of Tom, a member of her social group whom she likes but doesn’t love. He’s drafted and sent to Korea. She keeps up the pretense of loving him, but agrees to date Ralph. Connie discovers Ralph is her true love, and Ralph says she must tell Tom that it’s over between them. Connie asks Ray if it is right to break Tom’s heart while he’s serving his country overseas.

Keywords

Korean War

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.

Ray Mann has brown instead of black hair this issue.

Frankly Speaking (Table of Contents: 5)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

? [as Ray Mann]

Letters

typeset

Genre

romance

Keywords

advice

Don't Change Our Love! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils

Mort Leav (signed)

Inks

Mort Leav (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

romance

Characters

Corinne; Stewart Reed; Corinne's father; Corinne's mother

Synopsis

Corinne falls for fellow college student Stewart, but he’s something of a radical who works for the campus newspaper and clashes with the dean. Corinne’s parents disapprove of Stewart’s trouble-making, since “a reformer usually has a disturbed personality!” However, Stewart and Corinne find an old newspaper article which proves Corinne’s parents were also “reformers” in their day: her mother was arrested as a suffragette and her father was arrested trying to help her. Corinne’s parents admit that people can “settle down” after college, and approve their daughter’s choice of a boyfriend.