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Darling Romance #3 (1950) · The Collector

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Darling Romance (1949)
#3

Archie#3

Darling Romance

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Darling Romance #3

Dark Secret / I Failed at Love / A Handful of Stars / I Played at Marriage! / Flight from Love

Publisher: Archie
Cover date: January 1950
On sale: Oct 21, 1949
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Credits

Editor: Marie Antoinette Park
Art director: Milton Sorul
Executive editor: Harriet Small
Production manager: Isabel Ross

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Grand Comics Database issue 309182

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A few weeks before her wedding to Bob, Helen accepts a ride from Arthur, her friend Jane’s husband. Arthur gets fresh, Helen resists, the car wrecks, Arthur is killed, and Helen flees. The authorities know a woman was with Arthur and Jane says she’ll kill the woman if she finds her. After marrying Bob, Helen has nightmares about the accident. Jane learns Helen was “the woman” and attempts to kill her, but Bob intervenes and saves his wife. Helen and Bob decide “from now on, we won’t know the meaning of the word secret.”

Story editor

Gilda Rae

Characters

Arthur Manners
Barbara Williams
Bob Nolan
David Manners
Gabby Remsen
Helen
Helen Young
Jan Cermak
Jane Manners
Jay Williams
Jimmy Sheldon
Larry
Leslie
Lopez
Madge
Mr. Carson
Mr. Gray
Mrs. Gray
Mrs. Manners
Pepita
Pete Derny
Roger Martin
Sergeant Curtman
Sharon Gray
Sonia

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