Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	September-October 1953
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia reads: DARING LOVE, Vol. 1, No. 1, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1953. Published bi-monthly by GILLMOR MAGAZINES, INC. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y.

Cover Details - "Paper Romance"

Genre	romance
Notes	Title from story inside issue.

7 page story "Dear John"

Genre	romance
Notes	lots of good girl art in this one

6 page story "Career Girl!"

Genre

romance

2 page text story "Love...and Obey!"

Genre	romance
Letters	typeset

6 page story "My Sister's Keeper!"

Genre

romance

6 page story "Paper Romance!"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Steve Ditko
Inks	Steve Ditko
Notes	Per Blake Bell, "Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko" (Fantagraphics Books, 2008, ISBN-13: 9781560979310), page 20, Steve Ditko's first published work (his second sale, appearing before his first sale) is penciling and inking the story "Paper Romance" in Gillmor Magazines' DARING LOVE #1 (September-October 1953). According to Blake, "So buried was this title [DARING LOVE] in the dustbin of history that Ditko's contributions went undiscovered until the late 1980s."
Reprinted	in Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1.