Digital Comic Museum - First Romance Magazine 025 -JVJ


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A Rangerhouse scan,
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From the JVJ Collection.
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This book is part of the 2017 St Valentine's Day Romance'acre.
'Looking for digital love in all the wrong places.'

Issue: #25
Published: December 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Leon Harvey
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US; Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indexed from scanned copy at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Enslaved!
Genre:	Romance

Table Of Contents (1 page)	Contents
Credits:	Pencils: Various \| Inks: Various \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (5 pages)	Enslaved!
Synopsis:	Sally lives in the slums but dreams of a better life some day. However, she meets the brutish Pete and is “enslaved by lust and desire from which I’d never be free.”
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Sally Cordell Andy Cordell Mrs. Cordell Mr. Cordell Pete Mallon

Text Story (1 page)	One Last Fling
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (0 pages)
Synopsis:	House ad for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”

Comic Story (1 page)	So You've Got a Job!
Synopsis:	How to behave at work: don’t be the “office gossip,” the “office ‘mooch,’” a chronic complainer, or a clock-watcher.
Credits:	Pencils: ? (Powell studio) \| Inks: ? (Powell studio)
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (4 pages)	No Holds Barred
Synopsis:	Chorus line dancer June meets soldier Bobby at a USO club and they fall in love. She doesn’t tell him what she does for a living, and when he finds out he says “I never thought you’d turn out to be as low as this!” She says she had to quit school and take “any job” to support her dying mother and is now stuck. Bobby says they can get married now and she can live with his family in Tennessee until he returns from the service.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	June Early Bobby Jackson Trix

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Synopsis:	House ad for “Teen-Age Brides,” “First Love Illustrated,” “True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated,” “Hi-School Romance,” and “First Romance Magazine.”

Comic Story (5 pages)	Take Me
Synopsis:	Nurse Mary loves doctor Tom but he’s engaged to Alice. When Alice is killed in an auto accident, Mary consoles Tom and eventually they are married. On their honeymoon in Mexico, Mary thinks Tom is still thinking about Alice, but when a fever epidemic strikes the town they both pitch in. Tom dies of the disease. Mary will return to the USA with doctor Larry, who has loved Mary for a long time.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Mary Lake Dr. Tom Sloan Larry Alice

Text Story (1 page)	...For Better, for Worse...
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (0 pages)
Synopsis:	Subscription form for "First Romance Magazine."

Letters Page (1 page)
Featuring:	Ask Jane Jones
Credits:	Script: Jane Jones \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (5 pages)	My Mother -- My Rival!
Synopsis:	18-year-old Peggy is tired of being treated like a child by her mother Lucille, who is only 17 years older than she. Peggy begins an affair with Frank, her mother’s boyfriend. Frank continues to see both of them. Lucille warns Peggy that Frank is “no good,” and Peggy sees him hit her mother when Lucille asks him to leave her daughter alone. Peggy and Lucille walk out on Frank and go home together.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Frank Anders Lucille Peggy

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