(December 1949)
Pines,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Better Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
I Cheated Romance
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Peggy Clinton; Jeff Lang; Marcia Troy; Mr. Clinton; Mrs. Clinton
- Synopsis
- Peggy meets Jeff on vacation, but fails to tell him that she’s only 17 years old. She continues to lie as a romance develops, claiming she has a job and hiding their relationship from her parents. When Jeff proposes, Peggy insists they elope. Afterward, Jeff learns the truth and says marriage can’t be built on a “tissue of lies.” The marriage is annulled. Peggy graduates from high school and gets a job. Jeff returns and they are “remarried.”
[no title indexed]
Love Lore / comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- R-6
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In Spain, a girl can turn down...
- Genre
- non-fiction; romance
Love In Chains
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- R-26
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Sally; Jock Winters; Marcia; Amy; Steve; Aunt Julia; Sam Thorne; Maggie Winters; Jane
- Synopsis
- Sally is mistreated as a child by her stepmother, and is extremely possessive as a young adult. Sally falls in love with baseball pitcher Jock, but is irritated by the constant presence of his catcher and friend Sam. When Sally refuses to let Jock’s little sister Maggie play with her childhood doll, Sam calls her selfish. Sally makes Jock think Sam made advances to her, but when this causes Jock’s career to falter, she confesses and Jock dumps her. However, learning Jock’s sister is ill, Sally takes the doll to her in the hospital. Jock decides Sally has changed and they are reunited.
- Keywords
- baseball
[no title indexed]
Let's Talk it Over / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Worried? Troubled over some problem? Why not write...
The Minute I Saw You
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Madeline Mines (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- R-25
- Genre
- romance
Hollywood Heartache
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- R-22
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Beth Bunty; Rex Hunt; Gene; Mr. Horton; Lily Lang
- Synopsis
- Teenager Beth moves to Rex’s ranch at age 15 after her father’s death. As a young adult, Beth loves Rex but he continues to treat her as a child. A Hollywood film company arrives to film at the ranch and Beth is jealous of star Lily’s flirtation with Rex. When Beth acts as Lily’s stand-in and is kissed by the director, Rex realizes Beth is a grown up woman and he loves her.
[no title indexed]
Just Between Us... / text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It happens every day...perhaps it's even happened to you!
Too Much Love
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- R-39
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Cathy Saunders; Mr. Saunders; Mrs. Saunders; John; Anne; Bill; David Moore; Pat Godwin
- Synopsis
- Cathy feels her parents lead a “dull, loveless life” and insists she won’t get married until she finds a love that will last “forever!” Cathy falls in love with David but is afraid of losing him so she monopolizes his time. In an attempt to get married sooner, Cathy asks her parents for a loan but they can’t afford it and David is opposed. When Cathy demands that David fire his secretary and hire her, he says she’s “smothering” him and breaks up with her. Cathy’s friend advises her to “take the worry mask off” and enjoy life. Sure enough, David comes back to her since she’s changed.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
I Cheated Romance
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2.
["In Spain, a girl can turn down..."]
Love Lore -
3.
Love In Chains
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4.
["Worried? Troubled over some problem? Why not write..."]
Let's Talk it Over -
5.
The Minute I Saw You
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6.
Hollywood Heartache
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7.
["It happens every day...perhaps it's even happened to you!"]
Just Between Us... -
8.
Too Much Love
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9.
The Food of Love
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- Katy Hayhurst
- Ramon Schenk
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
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