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Sweetheart Diary 034

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from a book in the John Sweet Collection

Issue: #34
Published: July 1956, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Al Fago (Executive Editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (3 pages)	Last Chance for Love
Synopsis:	Cathy can’t decide between suitors Ted (who has “a fine social position”) and Fred (who has “a grand job and a beautiful car!”). She says she’ll meet them in the park and give them her decision, but neither one shows up. Cathy eventually marries Irving.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Cathy Ted Langdon Fred Irving Kent

Comic Story (4 pages)	Man vs. Diary
Synopsis:	Dave and Lisa have to postpone their wedding when his father needs an operation that takes all his savings. Later, when Dave’s saved up more, he has to loan it to his sister’s husband. Lisa says they can get married anyway, but Dave “won’t get married without a nest egg!” One day, Lisa shows him that she’s saved $5000: she converted her diary entries into love stories and sold them. She promises to quit writing after they’re married.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Lisa Dave

Comic Story (1 page)	Fair Lady
Synopsis:	At the regular town dances, Allen admires Sandra from afar. Finally he gets the nerve to ask her for a dance and she accepts. They fall in love.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Sandra Keller Allen Munn

Comic Story (3 pages)	For Granted
Synopsis:	Pearl and Jeff are engaged, but he warns her “marriage is a long way off” because he wants to establish himself in business first. Pearl is left alone often and is disappointed when he gives her a diary as a gift. One day, Jeff says he read her diary and learns she’s been dating other men. But Pearl’s younger sister Judy admits she used the diary to record her romantic fantasies. Jeff says the diary made him realize he’s taken Pearl for granted, and vows to change.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Pearl Judy Jeff

Text Story (2 pages)	Her Dream Man
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (2 pages)	Love Letters
Synopsis:	To impress her girlfriends, Louise writes letters to herself from “Roy,” her supposed boyfriend. Roy is based on someone she met the previous summer, and she accidentally mails one of the letters to him. Roy shows up and says he has been thinking of her, too.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Louise Roy Street

Comic Story (7 pages)	Whisper to Me of Love
Synopsis:	Caroline grows up in poverty, and when merchant seaman Rory proposes marriage to her, she turns him down: she fears he’ll be lost at sea or “poverty that would soon destroy whatever love we had.” He goes back to sea. Caroline changes her mind, and meets him when his ship returns.
Characters:	Caroline Chambers Mr. Perkins Rory Taggart Mrs. Chambers

Comic Story (2 pages)	The Late Love
Synopsis:	Rita is dumped by her boyfriend. Old friend Jim steps in to console her. Finally, he proposes marriage and she accepts.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Rita Jim Fielding

Comic Story (3 pages)	The Quarrel
Synopsis:	Red breaks up with her boyfriend Bob. At home, she finds her mother’s old diary, in which she describes an argument that nearly caused her to break up with her future husband. Red calls Bob to apologize. They’re married. Red tells her mother about the diary, and her mother says she just copied a novel into the diary to improve her handwriting.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Bob Baxter Red Red's Mother

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