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Issue: Great Lover Romances #7
Publication Date: December 1952
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Issues: #7 of 20 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Toby Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/19/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 104.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Pages: 1
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Goodbye to Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Laura Adams; Dick Hastings; Mrs. Fox; Hillary Hale; Oliver Jarrel
Synopsis: Glamorous Hillary returns to her hometown and steals Oliver from her former best friend Laura. Laura and fellow teacher Dick, who loved Hillary, decide to elope. When they’re caught together by Dick’s landlady, a scandal ensues. Dick hides the fact that he and Laura are married, and offers to resign his teaching job. Laura clears their names by revealing that they are man and wife, and discovers she really loves Dick.
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Disclose Notes: "Laura" is spelled "Laural" in the splash panel.
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I'll Wait for You

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Eloise Franklin; Bill Kent; Mr. Franklin
Synopsis: Eloise falls in love with Bill, a young Marine about to be sent back to the Korean War. He asks her to wait for him, but she says “I don’t want to have to grow up so fast!” However, she eventually realizes that the war affects everyone and “I guess we all have to grow up, whether we want to or not.” She tracks down Bill before he leaves and promises to wait for him.
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In Content Item: FlagGreat Lover Romances #12 published October 1953
as I'll Wait for You [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Tell it to Sweeney!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: "Miss Sweeney" gives relationship advice to readers.
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Man Crazy

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Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Dr. Anthony King; Ruth Carter; George; Tim Marlow; Jeff Darwin
Synopsis: Ruth is a “one-date girl” because she’s too anxious to find a man to love and marry. “You scare men away by being too anxious and forward with them,” Dr. King advises. Although she says “It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Ruth agrees to follow his advice with Jeff, alternately acting like an “iceberg” and friendly towards him. Jeff says he’s leaving for Australia. Dr. King: “I don’t understand how this could happen.” Ruth “You’ve ruined my life!” However, Jeff proposes marriage at the last minute and he and Ruth will live happily ever after, in Australia.
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Disclose Notes: There is no logo on the splash panel identifying this as a "Dr. Anthony King, Psychiatrist" (or "Dr. Anthony King, Hollywood Psychiatrist" feature), but the main character is specifically identified as psychiatrist Dr. King.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Fat Stuff the Happy Hobo
First Line: Can you spare a handout for a hungry man?
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Pages: 1
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Cooking... with Love

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gertrude Jameson
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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In Content Item: FlagGreat Lover Romances #12 published October 1953
as Cooking... with Love [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Momism or Me

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Clem Carter; Vicky Young; Mrs. Carter
Synopsis: Vicky, who “spent most of her life in the tenement section of an overcrowded, dusty city,” moves to the countryside to be a “domestic” on a farm. She and neighboring farmer Clem fall in love, but he’s “helplessly trapped in [the] clutches” of his “neurotic” mother who claims to be ill. When their house catches fire, Clem risks his life to save his mother and she changes her mind, giving her blessing to Clem and Vicky’s romance.
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Disclose Notes: "Momism" was "A critical label introduced by essayist Philip Wylie in his 1942 collection A Generation of Vipers, referring to a perceived American cult of motherhood." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momism]

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