(June 1950)
Pines,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Standard Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
I Toyed with Love
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- R-140
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Marion; Steve Bronson; Ginny; Art Gates
- Synopsis
- Marion is engaged to Steve Bronson, but he confesses to being an ex-convict. Although he’s turned his life around, Marion breaks up with him and moves to the big city. After her mother’s death, Marion comes home and discovers Steve is dating her younger sister Ginny. Marion tries to undermine this romance. When Steve is arrested for robbery, Marion at first refuses to give him an alibi, but changes her mind when she sees Ginny really loves him. Marion settles for high school boyfriend Art Gates.
Indexer Notes
Art Gates was a comic book artist who worked for a number of publishers, including Standard. The character in this story may be named after him.
No Man for Me
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- R-104
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Bette Harris; Jeff Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Legal secretary Bette is envious of her married friends, so she tricks Jeff into proposing marriage to her to “save her reputation” after they’re stranded alone in the countryside. She confesses her scheme to Jeff but he says he loves her anyway.
Queens of Hearts
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- R-113
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Love Passed Me By
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- R-128
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Louise; Stan Warwick; Harvey
- Synopsis
- Louise and Harvey are engaged, but he wants to live in the suburbs and she prefers the city. Realtor Stan Warwick shows her a house he owns and will only sell to someone who agrees to live there. Harvey schemes to sell the house for redevelopment and make a profit. Louise tells Stan; she and Harvey break up as a result, but Stan and Louise have fallen in love and will live in the house when they are married.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Romance Is a Pose
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Madeline Mines (credited)
- Pencils
- John Celardo [as JC] (signed)
- Inks
- John Celardo [as JC] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- R-133
- Genre
- romance
My Selfish Heart
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- R-142
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lynn Dancer; Buck Dancer; Carol Deane; Ted Brent
- Synopsis
- Elementary schoolteacher Lynn Dancer supports her elderly, invalid father on her salary. Ted Brent offers to buy the family home and turn into a dude ranch. Lynn refuses but her father agrees. Lynn falls in love with Ted but is still not happy about the conversion of her home into a resort. She becomes jealous of guest Carol Deane and Ted. Eventually, she decides to participate in the dude ranch activities and learns Ted loves her as well.
Indexer Notes
Writer identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Pencil credit from Frank Thorne interview in The Comics Journal #280, page 46
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
I Toyed with Love
-
2.
No Man for Me
-
3.
Queens of Hearts
-
4.
Accent on Charm
-
5.
Love Passed Me By
-
6.
Romance Is a Pose
-
7.
My Selfish Heart
-
8.
Heloise and Abelard
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Tristan Lapoussière
- David Wilt
- Tillmann Courth
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.