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Issue: True Life Secrets #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1951
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Issues: #3 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Romantic Love Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/06/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Charles J. Levy; Charles Santangelo
Disclose Notes: On sale date taken from stamp on comic book currently in the image archive.

The color printing on this issue is not "full color." Issues 1,2, and 4 (and beyond) all have full color interiors but this issue's stories are predominately red and green, with a limited color palette. This may have something to do with the printing process?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US, later Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Globe Photos, Incorporated] (photograph)
Inker(s): ? [as Globe Photos, Incorporated] (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Odd Facts of Romance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Gates (signed)
Inker(s): Art Gates (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Synopsis: 5 trivia facts about romance around the world.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Black and white.
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I Loved Unwisely

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Eleanore Claire (signed)
Inker(s): Eleanore Claire (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Eve; Lance Dickson; Andy; David Wallace
Synopsis: Eve has long had a crush on Lance, but his philandering causes her to move away to the big city. She falls in love with author David but still has feelings for Lance. When Lance shows up and says he loves Eve, she realizes she doesn't care for him any more; she will marry David.
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Pages: 7
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I Left Love Behind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Donna; Dan Reed; Father; Aunt Ellen; Jock Colby
Synopsis: Donna grows up on her father's ranch and loves Dan, but her aunt insists she move back East for an education. Donna meets wealthy Jock, older than her "by years," and they become friends. Dan shows up: he's appearing in a rodeo to earn money for his wedding. Donna goes home to nurse her father, who has had a stroke. He says he sold his ranch to Dan. Jock shows up: he loves Donna but knows she only loves Dan. Dan's story of a "wedding" was just to make Donna jealous. Dan and Donna will be married.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The dialogue in the balloons in this story has quotes around it. The text in captions does not.
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Built for Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Dan Clark; Jane Roberts; Mr. Roberts; Mary
Synopsis: Jane meets Dan, who's building a house near her family home for his future wife Mary. However, Jane and Dan fall in love instead.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The dialogue in the balloons in this story has quotes around it. The text in captions does not.

There are several rather risque "cheesecake" drawings of Jane in this story (page 4 and 6).
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Career Wife

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Three Loves Had I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Bell
Inker(s): Fred Bell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Freddie Bell; Grace Mercer; Dr. Don Kent; Rod
Synopsis: Nurse Grace is torn between three lovers: salesman Freddie, doctor Don, and pilot Rod.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: This story appears to have been drawn by Fred Bell (who usually drew the "Trudy and Judy" fillers on the inside front covers of Charlton romance titles). It's probably an in-joke that one of the 3 male protagonists of the story is named "Freddie Bell."

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