(August 1952)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Realistic Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
A Realistic Comic
- Editing
- Sol Cohen
Triumphant Kisses
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Julie; Jimmy Dooley; Ned Duncan; Dan Carlos
- Synopsis
- Julie moves to Hollywood to become an actress but is forced to work as a waitress instead. Hoping to get into television, she cultivates the friendship of customer Jimmy, who claims to be a TV executive but turns out to be a lecher. She's rescued by Ned, another customer who she really loves, and who is actually a top producer. Julie fails her audition for a TV show and decides her "career" will be as Ned's wife.
- Reprints
Disillusioned
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rafael Astarita (signed)
- Inks
- Rafael Astarita (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Natalie; Tom O'Mara; Prince Hari Shahl
- Synopsis
- Foreign university student Hari, heir to an Indian throne, asks coed Natalie for a date, but she's engaged to engineering student Tom. Tom is rude to Hari and Natalie breaks up with him, then dates the prince. Tom punches the foreign nobleman and informs Natalie that Hari has several wives already, back home. Tom and Natalie reconcile.
- Reprints
Jinx Girl
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Ed French; Tom Hyler; Aunt Grace; Sybil Trent; Uncle Roger; Tony Redmond; Joe Cranton
- Synopsis
- Sybil's fiances Ed, Tom and Tony are all killed in accidents. She decides to avoid love from then on. Her employer Joe decides to break the jinx and goes sailing in a terrific storm. He returns safely and Sybil finally can wed.
- Reprints
-
in True Love Romances (Trent, 1955 ? series) #12 -
in Realistic Romances (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8 (1958) - in Teen Angst: A Treasury of '50s Romance (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)
- in Weird Love (IDW, 2014 series) #13 (July 2016), #13 (July 2016)
- in Weird Love (IDW, 2015 series) #5 - "Unlucky In Love" and More (September 2017), #5 - "Unlucky In Love" and More (September 2017)
-
The Love She Didn't Want
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Nola Alonzo; Frank Kinney; Alfredo Constanza; Mack Jones
- Synopsis
- Nola loves fellow circus performer Alfredo, but he doesn't like being upstaged by her high-wire act. She tones it down to please him, but this results in her losing her job. She's hired by a small circus thanks to the intervention of clown Bix Bixby. Bix saves her life when she falls but his back is broken. Bix is revealed to be Frank, an engineer who had loved her from afar and joined the circus to help her. Nola can now forget Alfredo's cruelty and will marry Frank.
- Reprints
- in Realistic Romances (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8 (1958)
- in Weird Love (IDW, 2014 series) #8 (July 2015)
- in Weird Love (IDW, 2015 series) #3 - I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club! (May 2016)
-
- Keywords
- Circus
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Triumphant Kisses
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2.
Disillusioned
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3.
Don't Be Lonely
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4.
It Might Have Been
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5.
Jinx Girl
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6.
The Love She Didn't Want
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Daniel Martinez
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
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