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Issue: Heartbeat Romances #13
Publication Date: January 1966
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Issues: #13 of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
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Indicia Publisher: Sport Magazine Pty Ltd
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 84
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Price: $0.25 AUD
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Content Items: 18 (17 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and white interior
Dimensions: 180mm x 260mm (#1-5?); 180mm x 270mm (#6?-20)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound (#1-5?); Saddle-stitched (#6?-20)
Publishing Format: Ongoing series
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: romantic
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Exotic Countries: Japan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Information on Japan including Japanese Pagodas; Buddhism; Hokkaido's inhabitants, the Ainu; Samurai; and the Japanese language.
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Job Number: 12-G
Disclose Notes: This feature is in the style of Selecciones Ilustradas work appearing in Space Ace (Atlas) and other comics internationally around 1960.
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Pain in My Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Mavis Brown; Mrs Spinks; Jim Lucas
Synopsis: Mavis Brown falls for a married man. Then, after Jim is hurt in an accident, she meets his wife and has to make a hard decision.
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Disclose Notes: "Pain in My Heart" is a song by Otis Redding released in 1963, suggesting this story is from Valentine (Fleetway).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Swingin' Sue
First Line: Oh-oh! Sue's school report-!
Synopsis: Sue's father can't believe her school report.
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This and That

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Janet; Rodney; Ethel
Synopsis: Janet loves her boutique clothes, more than she loves Rodney. She figures, "If I really loved Rodney I'd have mended my ways. And if he had really loved me he would have understood."
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A Way of Life…

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): James Green; Milly Bran; Henry Fry; Mr Spence
Synopsis: Milly demands James give up his job as a 'rag and bone man scounging junk' or she will dump him for accountant Henry Fry. But she likes it less when he becomes a slave to work.
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Disclose Notes: Artist credit from deskartesmil.blogspot.com. The final panel of this story retains the Serenade guitar logo.
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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jenni
First Line: I'll take it!
Synopsis: Jenni and her mother find the same dress at very different prices.
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Keep Away

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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Jane; Betsy; Roy
Synopsis: Betsy's enjoying the girls' keep-fit camp away from boys, but her pal Jane is distracted by the soldiers at the nearby camp. Inevitably, they both end up at the dance… and in trouble.
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You're Something Else

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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Lorna; Henry; Aunt Audie; Gregory; Jean
Synopsis: Lorna dreams of boyfriend Henry becoming more adventurous, like big game hunter Gregory. But the reality is nothing like her fantasies.
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Disclose Notes: To keep the story suitable for children, Henry's sister Jean magically appears to go on a camping trip with Henry and Lorna.
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Runnin' Around

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Freda; George Duncan
Synopsis: Freda writes to Stevie, the advice columnist at her "favourite magazine" about the pest that won't leave her alone. Stevie advices the best cure for a pest is poison, but Freda soon discovers there are unexpected consequences to being cruel.
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Disclose Notes: This story is from Valentine (IPC) — Stevie was Valentine's regular advice columnist.
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Face to Face

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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Sue Parfitt; Alan; Vera; Jill
Synopsis: Sue and Alan believe they are ugly and alone. When they start dating and fall for each other, is it just that no one else will have them?
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Disclose Notes: The final page of this issue has "The End" in a distinctive four-pointed star shape. It might be a standard style for the magazine this story is reprinted from.
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Double Trouble

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Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Alan Parker; Miss Sanderson; Fred
Synopsis: Miss Sanderson's new vintage constantly breaks down. Her boyfriend can't stand her passion for it and dumps her—just in time to meet the car's mysterious former owner.
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Breaking up Is Hard to Do

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Editor(s): ? (original editor)
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Miss Norman; Jim Williams
Synopsis: Total strangers Miss Norman and Mr Williams jointly buy a four poster bed at an auction, determined to keep it out of a dealer's hands. While they initially despise and distrust each other, the need to solve the problem of jointly owning a bed.
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Sometime Yesterday

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Keith Soames; Lucy Brown
Synopsis: Lucy wakes up late and mistakenly rushes to work on Sunday—just in time to be conscripted into typing a report by demanding Mr Soames. He thanks her with lunch and the chill between them starts to thaw. Now its Monday morning and Lucy's not sure if it was a dream.
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That's Show Business

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): George Smith [Monarch]; Sally
Synopsis: Sally assumes George is the star actor in town and he plays along. When the truth comes out, George expects to be dumped.
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I'm a Fool to Care

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Jane; Gerry Higgins
Synopsis: Jane is an Australian in England and is appalled to find none of the men are real men. But she discovers there is something about those wimpish British men.
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They're All the Same

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Reg Laver; Eve;
Synopsis: Eve's father routinely lies to her mother, trying to sound more important. Now her boyfriend's doing the same thing and she won't stand for it. But mother has advice for her.
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Disclose Notes: This story has the guitar logo at the end, typical of stories reprinted from Fleetway/IPC's Serenade.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Miss Trudy
First Line: Really, Mr. Soggy, I need a new typewriter -
Synopsis: Mr Soggy pays for his stingy ways.
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Disclose Notes: This page is incorrectly numbered 39, highlighting that this feature has been previously reprinted by K. G. Murray.

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