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Issue: First Romance Magazine #25 Public Domain
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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 U. S.
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Enslaved!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Howard Nostrand ?
Howard Nostrand ?
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Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
romantic
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Leon Harvey
Various
Various
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Enslaved!

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John Prentice ?
John Prentice ?
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Subject Matter
romantic
Sally Cordell; Andy Cordell; Mrs. Cordell; Mr. Cordell; Pete Mallon
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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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.
One Last Fling

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
romantic
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[untitled]

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

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Subject Matter
non-fiction
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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Al Avison ?
Al Avison ?
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Subject Matter
romantic
June Early; Bobby Jackson; Trix
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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Acclaimed by Millions
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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Black-and-white on yellow background. Bottom half of page is an advertisement.
Take Me

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob Powell
Bob Powell
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?
Subject Matter
romantic
Mary Lake; Dr. Tom Sloan; Larry; Alice
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...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
romantic
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Bottom 1/4 of page is subscription form.
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Subject Matter
Don’t Miss Out on Romance
Subscription form for "First Romance Magazine."
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jane Jones
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Subject Matter
Ask Jane Jones
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My Mother -- My Rival!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Jack Abel ?
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Subject Matter
romantic
Frank Anders; Lucille; Peggy
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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