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Issue: Intimate Love #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1950
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Standard Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: [This is the first issue of this series, contrary to the issue numbering. Page count increases to 52 with the next issue]
Indicia: INTIMATE LOVE, a magazine published quarterly by STANDARD MAGAZINES, INC., 10 East 40th Street, New York 16, N.Y. Subscription (12 issues), $1.20; single copies 10¢; foreign and Canadian postage extra. Application for second-class entry pending at the Post Office, New York, N.Y. In corresponding with this magazine, please be sure to include your local postal zone number, if any. Names of all characters used in cartoons, stories and articles are fictitious. If the name of any living person or existing institution is used, it is a coincidence. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and are submitted at the author's risk. No. 5, January, 1950. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
?
Subject Matter
romantic
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Miscellaneous
1
Cover caption:
BEVERLY TYLER and JEROME COURTLAND who appear in the Columbia Picture "The Palomino"
Trap For Romance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
romantic
Jan Flower; Ted Strong; Mildred Travers; Dr. Toomis
Jan is hired as the companion for Mildred, who lost the use of her legs in an automobile accident. Mildred’s fiancé Ted feels responsible. He and Jan fall in love but hide their feelings. Jan learns Mildred is not paralyzed and has been having an affair with Dr. Toomis. Mildred plans to marry Ted, then divorce him and receive a large cash settlement. When Jan informs him of the scheme, Ted pretends to be broke and Mildred admits she doesn’t love him and isn’t an invalid.
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Miscellaneous
7
R-21
Marriage 'Round the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
non-fiction, romantic
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Miscellaneous
1
BF-336
Love Lore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction, romantic
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Miscellaneous
0.5
R-5
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Mort Leav for pencils and inks.
Heart of a Stranger by Mary Blaine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Mary Blaine]
?
typeset
Subject Matter
romantic
"Jane Carter Did Not Believe in Love at First Sight"
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Miscellaneous
1
R-37
Text story with color illustration.
Wings on my Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
Mary; Dan Engle; Mike
Mary works as a waitress to support her younger brother Mike. Her pilot fiancé Fred and parents were killed in a plane crash a few years before, and Mary dislikes airplanes as a result. Pilot Dan Engel defends Mary from a lustful diner patron and they eventually fall in love. However, Mary constantly fears Dan will die in a crash and they break up as a result. When Mike falls ill, only Dan’s aviation expertise can deliver the medicine he needs to recover. Mary and Dan reconcile and she no longer fears and hates flying.
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Miscellaneous
8
R-42
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Romance on the Range

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
romantic, western
"Though the Old West was wild and woolly, young folks still had plenty of time to dream up romantic superstitions!"
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Miscellaneous
1
R-44
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Date Bait by Betty Cummings

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
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Miscellaneous
1
B675
text story with color illustration
Love's Mask

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
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Miscellaneous
0.5
R-48
Illustration with poem underneath:
"We danced the golden hours away
Among the lights aglow --
You were so handsome and aloof,
Beneath your domino.
Two strangers at a masquerade,
As strangers we would part --
And then the hour of midnight struck
And you unmasked your heart!"
Afraid of Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
romantic
Jane Ellis; Sue Ellis; Dr. Ken Tilton
Jane is a “man-hater,” blaming a man for her parents’ death in an accident. After an argument with Jane, her sister Sue is struck by a car and hospitalized. Dr. Ken Tilton treats Sue and gets to know Jane. He helps her understand the irrationality of her man-hating and they fall in love.
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Miscellaneous
7
R-46
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
How Did It Start?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
non-fiction, romantic
"Centuries ago, men did not propose marriage, but kidnapped their brides. Many customs and symbols of that faraway era still remain."
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Miscellaneous
0.5
R-9
Signed "Mort". Previous indexer confused Mort Meskin with Mort Leav.
Charm Corner

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Martha Hale]
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?
typeset
Subject Matter
educational
Martha Hale
Best Foot Forward; Table Talk; Look Before You Leap
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Miscellaneous
1
"edited by Martha Hale"; small color illustration in boxed header to article
Coquette

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
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Miscellaneous
1
R-47
Poem illustrated as a comic story.
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

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