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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.