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Heart Throbs #40 (1956) · The Collector

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Quality Comics
Heart Throbs (1949)
#40

Quality Comics#40

Heart Throbs

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Heart Throbs #40

Publisher: Quality Comics
Cover date: February 1956
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Stories

4 titled

1Make-Believe Kisses
2Unhappy Girl
3

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Grand Comics Database issue 216587

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Penniless Arda participates in a radio quiz show that will award her cash for making the acquaintance of a stranger in the park. She’ll get more money if a romance develops. The “stranger” is Steve. Arda and Steve date and he later confesses he’s fallen in love with her. Arda fears Steve will think she’s just stringing him along so she can earn the prize money. Steve finally reveals he’s the writer for the radio show and arranged the stunt so Arda would fall in love with him.

Latin American Interlude

4I Was Ashamed of My Boyfriend

Credits

Pencillers: Chic Stone, Ogden Whitney
Inkers: Chic Stone, Ogden Whitney
Cover: Chic Stone

Editorial and production

Editors: Al Grenet, Richard Arnold
Associate: Richard Arnold
General manager: Busy Arnold

Characters

Arda Hale
Carlos Rodriquez
Don Casey
Eddie Hanlon
Margaret MacRae
Marion Phelps
Mitzy
Mr. Gordon
Mrs. Orson
Steve Kinney
Tom Bagley
Willie Rogers

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