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Issue: Dear Lonely Hearts #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #5 of 8 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagComic Media
Brand: Comic Media
Indicia Publisher: Harwell Publications 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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
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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Penciller(s): Marty Elkin
Inker(s): Marty Elkin
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Pages: 1
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Tea with Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marty Elkin (signed)
Inker(s): Marty Elkin (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Terry Saunders; Harry Smith; Jim Barry; Mildred Norton
Synopsis: Harry talks his way into Terry’s house by offering to do chores in exchange for a meal. Terry is impressed with the personable young man, but Harry gets nervous and hides when there’s a knock on the door. The visitor is police detective Jim, who warns Terry about a maniac killer who leaves an “X” at the scene of his crimes. Terry doesn’t expose Harry, but when Jim leaves, Harry reveals himself to be the maniac, complete with an “X” written on a mirror. He pulls a knife and is ready to kill Terry but Jim returns—to ask Terry for a date—and saves her.
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This is the Story of a Dream House

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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Mountain Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Tewks] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Tewks] (signed)
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Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Sally Hall; Johnsie Bolton; Dr. Jim
Synopsis: Sally leaves the city to teach school in a rural hamlet, and is courted by farmer Johnsie. Dr. Jim warns Sally that that the rural people have certain attitudes that she must be aware of. At a community picnic, Johnsie and Sally wander off; when she starts to sunbathe, Johnsie thinks she’s offering herself to him. She resists, and Dr. Jim fights Johnsie to save her. Sally realizes she doesn’t understand the locals as well as she thought, but she also now knows she loves Dr. Jim.
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This is the Story of a Dream House (part two)

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
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I Laughed at my Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marty Elkin (signed)
Inker(s): Marty Elkin (signed)
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Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Elsa Brown; Mildred Norton; Clint Carroll; Mother Murphy; Big Jim
Synopsis: Elsa has a romantic relationship via correspondence with Clint, and on the spur of the moment decides to visit his town. She discovers Clint is a wrestler called “The Monster,” with a very misshapen face, and rejects him hysterically. Back home Elsa realises she was unfair, and writes to apologize. Her letters are always returned “address unknown.” One night, a handsome man appears and refunds the money Elsa spent on her trip to meet Clint: it’s Clint, who had been suffering from a glandular problem when she met him. He’s now cured. Elsa shows him her repentant letters, and they reconcile.
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A Man Worth Loving

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Penciller(s): Gray Morrow ?; Marcia Snyder ?
Inker(s): Gray Morrow ?; Marcia Snyder ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Bobbie Wilson; Jack Parr; Pierre
Synopsis: Bobbie and her boyfriend, artist Jack, go on a skiing vacation. She refuses to give up her social life to marry him. Ski instructor Pierre makes a pass at Bobbie, but Jack intervenes. After Jack beats up Pierre and castigates Bobbie for her behavior, Bobbie agrees to marry him the next day.
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