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Issue: First Romance Magazine #25 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #25 of 52 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
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Indicia Publisher: Home Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
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Enslaved!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: romantic
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ryan Ten finds the blond male's face on the cover to be much closer to Prentice than to Nostrand.
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Contents

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Penciller(s): Various
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Enslaved!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Sally Cordell; Andy Cordell; Mrs. Cordell; Mr. Cordell; Pete Mallon
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.”
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Disclose Notes: Previous indexer credits art as by Jo Albistur but it sure looks like John Prentice to me. Bails indicates Prentice worked for Harvey in this period but does not credit Albistur with doing so.
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One Last Fling

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: romantic
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[untitled]

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First Line: The Truth! ... And Nothing But the Truth!
Synopsis: House ad for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”
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Disclose Notes: Horizontal ad across bottom of page. Reproduces cover of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” 2.
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So You've Got a Job!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Powell studio)
Inker(s): ? (Powell studio)
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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: How to behave at work: don’t be the “office gossip,” the “office ‘mooch,’” a chronic complainer, or a clock-watcher.
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No Holds Barred

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): June Early; Bobby Jackson; Trix
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.
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First Line: Acclaimed by Millions
Synopsis: House ad for “Teen-Age Brides,” “First Love Illustrated,” “True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated,” “Hi-School Romance,” and “First Romance Magazine.”
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Take Me

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Mary Lake; Dr. Tom Sloan; Larry; Alice
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.
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...For Better, for Worse...

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Genres: romantic
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First Line: Don’t Miss Out on Romance
Synopsis: Subscription form for "First Romance Magazine."
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Jane Jones
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Ask Jane Jones
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My Mother -- My Rival!

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Frank Anders; Lucille; Peggy
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.
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