Synopsis
Office worker Laura is dumped by her boyfriend Alan because she’s a poor orphan. Laura gets a job in rural Long Island as companion to elderly Miss Barnes. Miss Barnes urges Laura not to shut herself away, giving herself as an example of a lonely spinster. Laura poses for neighboring artist Tony and they fall in love. Tony tries to break up with her because he’s going blind from an old war injury, but Laura says their love can overcome this obstacle.
Notes
This title, and its companion Darling Romance, appear to have been joint ventures between Archie Comics and Columbia Publications, both of which were owned by Maurice Coyne and Louis Silberkleit. Park was the editor on several of Columbia's romance-based pulp titles. The lack of any documentation for "Harriet Small" and later statements of ownership for Darling Love and Romance indicating Shorten as editor suggest that "Harriet Small" was a pseudonym, taking the feminine form of "Harry" and playing on the "Short" in "Shorten" with the synonym "Small." "Sorul" is "Luros" spelled backwards; Milton Luros was the art director for Columbia Publications at the time.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1949, page 184, registration number B213638.
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Credits
- Script
- Irene Martin, Ellyn Lee, May Richstone, Laura Brown
- Pencils
- Bill Fix, Pen Shumaker
- Inks
- Bill Fix, Pen Shumaker
- Editor
- Marie Antoinette Park
- Art director
- Milton Luros
- Dialogue
- Mary Woods
- Executive editor
- Harry Shorten
- Production manager
- Isabel Ross
- Story editor
- Gilda Rae
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