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Issue: Youthful Romances #17 [3]

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Publication Date: May 1953

Issue #17 [3]
- Youthful Romances
- #15 [1]
- #16 [2]
- ✔ #17 [3]
- #18 [4]
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
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Issues: #17 [3] of 9 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ribage

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Ribage Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Adolphe Barreaux

Notes: Indicia: YOUTHFUL ROMANCES is published bi-monthly by Ribage Publishing Corp., 420 DeSoto Ave., St. Louis 7, Mo. Editorial and executive offices at 480 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. May, 1953, Vol. 1, No. 17. Application for second class entry pending at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of March 3, 1879. All material submitted at the sender’s risk. Single copy 10¢. Copyright 1953, by Ribage Publishing Corp. Printed in U. S. A.

[Issues #1-14 published by Pix-Parade, 1949-52; Ribage 1953-54.]

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): William Zeller

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: romantic

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Pages: 1

Notes: "Thrilling Confessions" banner across top of cover. Small print next to title reads "Combined with Romantic Hearts." Inset photo of Buddy Morrow, (b. 1919) an American trombonist and bandleader, best known for his early 1950s Billboard hits "Rose, Rose, I Love You" and "Night Train."

Cover artist is credited in Table of Contents inside front cover.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Table of Contents inside front cover lists complete contents with writer, artist credits for each story.

One-Sided Love

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ira Zweifach

Penciller(s): Bob Cohen (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Cohen (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: romantic

Character(s): Fern Whitmore; Hack Darrow; Buddy Morrow; Mr. Green

Synopsis: Bandleader Buddy Morrow saves a young woman from drowning and helps her patch things up with her boyfriend.

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Pages: 8

Strictly Business!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Martin Smith

Penciller(s): Alvin Hollingsworth

Inker(s): Alvin Hollingsworth

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: romantic

Character(s): Joan Mason; Brad Carter; Mr. Pierce

Synopsis: Business executive Joan will lose a $50,000 inheritance unless she’s married within 30 days. She offers her employee Brad $10,000 to marry her, “all strictly business.” He agrees, but Joan falls in love with him and decides she can’t marry him for money. Brad says he actually loves her and his father is, in fact, the company’s biggest stockholder, so he’ll take her job after the wedding.

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Pages: 5

Heartless Flirt!!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Akin

Penciller(s): Anthony Tallarico (signed)

Inker(s): Anthony Tallarico (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: romantic

Character(s): Lily Taylor; Carol Hendrick; Sue Wilson; Jack Norton; Bob Wilson; Steve Crane; Mr. Taylor; Mrs. Taylor; Dot; Lou

Synopsis: Lily moves to a small town and begins to work her way through the boys at her new high school, including those who already have girlfriends. She gets a reputation as a flirt and when one of the other girls tries to commit suicide after losing her boyfriend, Lily resolves “to make amends.” However, her reputation pursues her and eventually she and her parents have to move and “start again somewhere else!” She vows to “turn over a new leaf” and “never be a heartless flirt again!”

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Pages: 6

Notes: Anthony Tallarico = Tony Tallarico

Marge and Gower Champion

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Beresford King

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Character(s): Marge Champion; Gower Champion

Synopsis: Gower Champion (1919-1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. With his wife and dance partner Marge (Marjorie Celeste Belcher) the Champions were an accomplished dancing team during MGM's Golden Age of the 1940s and 50s.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Text with black and white photo of Marge and Gower Champion

House of Dreams

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jesse Merlan

Penciller(s): Walter Palais

Inker(s): Walter Palais

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: romantic

Character(s): Helen Worth; John Dodd; Sandra Dodd

Synopsis: Helen meets builder John and they fall in love. He shows her a home he is building, but Helen later sees him take Sandra there. Jealous, Helen sets the house on fire, intending to die. John rescues her and explains that Sandra is his sister. “House wasn’t hurt much,” John says, and still intends to marry Helen.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Walter Palais is the brother of artist Rudy Palais