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Issue: Young Brides #5 [11] Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1954
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Issues: #5 [11] of 30 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagPrize
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Feature Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Too Beautiful to Be True

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Pages: 1
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Too Beautiful to Be True!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Janet Price; Mr. Stevens; Amy Baker; Terry Wright; Phil; Walt
Synopsis: Beautiful Janet is repeatedly fired, either because her boss makes a pass at her or the wife of her boss is jealous. She also can’t get decent dates either because men get “fresh” or they think she’s out of their league. Janet undergoes a reverse-makeover to become her own “cousin,” mousy “Helen Brown.” She and her longtime crush Terry fall in love. Terry has his friend Walt give “Helen” a makeover and she becomes Janet again. Terry thinks he’s been the victim of a joke but Janet convinces him she’s serious and they decide to get married.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: JVJ index card attached to online scanned version credits Meskin with pencils and Simon with inks.

Original indexers notes: Kirby pencils credit per Ger Apeldoorn; Meskin per Harry Mendryk. Nick Caputo believes it is a combination of the two.
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Ghost Wife

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Lil; Evelyn Giles; Marty Giles; Mr. Burton
Synopsis: Although her older sister Lil says Evelyn is too immature to marry, Evelyn and Marty wed anyway. Lil helps Evelyn and Marty afterward; Marty appreciates it, but Evelyn feels Lil is taking over. She also catches Lil and Marty kissing. Evelyn stands up to Lil, saying “what you really need is a life and a man of your own!” Marty and Evelyn can now live a normal married life.
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Disclose Notes: Krigstein script per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 27, No. 5, May 2016.
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Fit to Be Queen

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Nancy Hale]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Practically Married!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Dean Vincent; Nora Sidney; Mr. Sidney; Anne
Synopsis: 17-year-old Nora’s father has her marriage to Dean annulled; he says Nora can marry Dean in a year if she still wants to, and Dean can come to work for him. Dean progresses in the business, but his relationship with Nora cools. When Nora turns 18, Dean dumps her, saying “I’ve…outgrown you!” Nora’s father says Dean’s success in business was rigged, and he needs Nora. Dean agrees and he and Nora depart to get married, but not before Nora’s father tells her that Dean had to be taken “down a peg,” and prove he was man enough to deserve Nora.
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Disclose Notes: JVJ index card credits Kirby with pencils and Simon with inks.

Apeldoorn says "some Kirby inks."
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Good Manners Will Make You Rate With Your Date

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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No Raving Beauty

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Charmaigne]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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The Bachelor and the Baby Sitter

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Julie Miller; Cass Loman; Peggy Sloan; Freddy; Mr. Sloan; Mr. Kendall; Mrs. Kendall
Synopsis: Cass gets teenager Peggy to babysit for his fiancée Julie’s little brother so they can have dinner with his boss. Peggy develops a crush on Cass and this affects his relationship with Julie; Peggy’s father warns Cass to stay away from his daughter. To make Peggy see reason, Cass says he’ll marry her right away, even though that means she might have to get a job “at least until the children come!” This scares Peggy off; she returns to her teenage boyfriend. Now Cass and Julie can marry in peace.
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