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Issue: First Love Illustrated #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1949
 
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics HView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden and Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Al Avison
Al Avison
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Subject Matter
romantic
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Tearful Bride

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Tom Gill
Tom Gill
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Subject Matter
romantic
Jane Lee; Johnny Moore; Lily Lee; Mrs. Martha Lee; Mr. Lee
Jane and Johnny are engaged, but he doesn’t make enough money for them to get married. Johnny finally convinces Jane to get a job to help them make ends meet. After numerous complications, they finally have their wedding.
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I Fell in Love with a Mama's Boy!

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Al Eadeh
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Subject Matter
romantic
Terry Neal; Laura Crain; Mrs. Crain; Dave Burnette; Mrs. Burnette; Elaine Day
Laura breaks up with Terry because he wants to be a race driver; her father died in a crash and she opposes the sport. She gets a sales job in a department store and finds herself attracted to her supervisor, Dave. Dave proposes marriage and Laura accepts, but Dave’s mother is domineering and wants to run their lives. When Terry’s car crashes during a race, Laura realizes it is he that she loves, and they reconcile.
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Should I Give Up My Career for Marriage?

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Bob Powell
Bob Powell ?
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Subject Matter
educational
Rita Benson; Mr. Johnson; Paul Ronson
Rita is promoted to department head at her job. She and Paul fall in love, but he says "No wife of mine is going to work. You're going to have to give up something...either that job or me!" Rita is torn between her desire for marriage and a home and her desire for a career. An unidentified adviser says "Rita will have to weigh the values of each and then decide which is more important to her."
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FlagAgonizing Love #[nn] published January 2011
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Weekend Date

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Vic Herman
Vic Herman
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Subject Matter
humorous
Winnie the Waitress
Winnie; Maizie; Myrtle; Mabel
Jealous Mabel and Myrtle steal Winnie's luggage when she goes on a weekend trip. She has to improvise her wardrobe--making a bikini out of two handkerchiefs and ballgown out of curtains--and is still the most popular woman at the resort.
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Soap-Opera Love

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Wanda Carter
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Subject Matter
romantic
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I Suffered for Love

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Bob Powell
Bob Powell
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Subject Matter
romantic
Julie; Jeff; Roger; John; Fred Rockland
Julie’s brother Jeff is overly protective, disapproving of her boyfriends. When her father falls ill and dies, Julie learns she is adopted. She decides to run off with Fred, but Jeff forces him to admit that he doesn’t “want to be tied down to any one dame.” Jeff tells Julie he’s known for years that she wasn’t his real sister, and that he denigrated her dates because he loved her himself. Julie realizes she loves him romantically as well.
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Amateur Show

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Vic Herman
Vic Herman
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Subject Matter
humorous
Winnie the Waitress
Winnie Walsh; Wally Brown; Andy McBuzz
Tired of eating free sandwiches at the Snack Shop where she works, Winnie enters an amateur talent contest hoping to win money for a decent meal. She takes second place with her dish-juggling act. Her prize: a coupon good for free sandwiches for a month from the Snack Shop.
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My One-Sided Romance

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Tom Gill
Tom Gill
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Subject Matter
romantic
Beth Emerson; Dick Young; Lois; Gloria; Corinne; Pop; Ronald; Marty
Beth has a crush on roller skater Dick, so she trains herself to skate and is paired with him in a contest. Dick insists on keeping their relationship strictly professional, but during the skate-dancing competition, he confesses that he loves Beth. They win the Interstate Skating Championship as a result.
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Cupid's Corner

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William Shakespeare; Alfred Tennyson; William Blake; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier
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Subject Matter
Love poems
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Your Problem

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Advice from Nancy Powers
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Am I Too Young to Marry?

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Bob Powell
Bob Powell ?
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Subject Matter
educational
Betty Jane; Bill Foster
Betty is 16 years old and wants to marry Bill, but her parents insist she's too young. A "famous authority" says "I believe Betty should wait until she graduates school before she decides."
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