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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published May 1951
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Notes Indicia: NEW ROMANCES, a magazine published quarterly and copyright 1951 by VISUAL EDITIONS, INC., 163 Pratt Street, Meriden, Conn.; Editorial and executive offices, 10 East 40th Street, New York 16, N.Y. Subscription (12 issues), $1.20; single copies 10ยข; foreign and Canadian postage extra. In corresponding with this magazine, please be sure to include your local postal zone number, if any. Names of all characters used in cartoons, stories and articles are fictitious. If the name of any living person or existing institution is used, it is a coincidence. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and are submitted at the author's risk. No. 5, May, 1951. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. This is the first issue in the series although it is labeled "No. 5"

Cover Details

Genre Romance
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "A Message from the Editor"

Synopsis Text with spot color illustrations introducing NEW ROMANCES title.
Genre Romance
Letters typeset
Notes Dear Reader: We proudly present our first issue of "NEW ROMANCES" -- featuring straight from the heart picture stories about people like you!

10 page story "Marry in Haste..."

Genre Romance

1 page filler "Smart Talk by Janet Lee"

Genre Advice

7 page story "The Blame I Bore..."

Genre Romance

2 page text story "Beautiful But Smart by Sue Rosner"

Genre Romance
Notes text story with spot illustrations

8 page story "No Love for Me"

Genre Romance
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Notes Information on this sequence supplied by Steve Saaf and Jim Vadeboncoeur, June 2008.

2 page story "Love Problems"

Genre Romance