| Issue | #22 |
| Published | August 1953 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Leon Harvey |
| Notes | Publisher in indicia: Home Comics, Inc., with contents copyright Harvey Features Syndicate. Cover mentions the second story in the issue, "Tease". |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | Al Avison (attributed) |
| Inks | Al Avison (attributed) |
| Notes | Publisher in indicia: Home Comics, Inc., with contents copyright Harvey Features Syndicate. Cover mentions the second story in the issue, "Tease". |
| Pencils | ? (Photo) |
| Inks | ? (Photo) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Accessory sensation of the nation! Three for $2.00. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | Various |
| Inks | Various |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Comments from the editor, capsule summaries and representative panels from the four stories in the issue. |
| Pencils | ? (Photo) |
| Inks | ? (Photo) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | The new, deluxe tummy-flattener. Only $3.98. |
| Characters | Rita; Gary Palmer |
| Synopsis | When Flash Magazine sends Gary Palmer to the California mountains to write a story on the Bellano festival celebrating their Spanish heritage, the school asks Rita, their best history student, to explain the local customs to him. While Rita and Gary fall madly in love, Gary has nothing but contempt for Bellano, saying that this is not just a sleepy town - but half-dead. Rita loves Gary but tells him she loves the town more and if he doesn't then they can't stay together. At the festival ceremony, the mayor makes a humbled Gary an honorary citizen. Realizing his error, he runs to Rita, asking forgiveness and to marry her in Bellano. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | Tom Hickey |
| Inks | Tom Hickey |
| Synopsis | Tips on what to wear to catch your guy's eye. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | John Sink |
| Inks | John Sink |
| Genre | Romance |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Genre | Romance |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | House ad for the current issue of First Romance. |
| Characters | Janie Carson; Walt Paine |
| Synopsis | Some girls are cautious with their kisses, but Janie Carson was very generous and was the most popular girl at East High School. When she decides to run for class president, she finds her opponent is a new student, Walt Paine. When Janie turned her charms on Walt, he also fell under her spell, but was it real or just a tease? |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| Pencils | ? (Photo) |
| Inks | ? (Photo) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Use Meltabs and lose ugly fat without dieting. |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | House ad for the Harvey line of comics: Blondie, Dagwood, Daisie, Li'l Audrey, Casper, Little Max, Paramount Comics, Sad Sack, Katzenjammer Kids, Jiggs & Maggie, Horace, Joe Palooka, and Dick Tracy. |
| Pencils | ? (Photo) |
| Inks | ? (Photo) |
| Letters | Typeset |
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| Letters | Typeset |
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| Characters | Kay; Lucy; Stan Dryden |
| Synopsis | In the locker room, before basketball practice, Kay can't keep her excitement about her date to herself and tells Lucy about Stan Dryden. But Lucy is skeptical, and reminds Kay that Stan is much older and isn't "the marrying kind". Against her parents wishes, Kay and Stan go to the Dew Drop Inn, a notorious gambling place where they eat, dance and kiss, only to face the wrath of her father when they arrive home. But Stan convinces Kay's father that he is a man he can trust and over the next few dates makes sure that Kay is home on time. He is trustworthy until they go on a romantic cruise. Caught up in the romantic evening, they kiss passionately. This time, when they arrive late, Kay's father throws Stan out and forbids her from seeing him again, even as she begs Stan to take her with him. Later that night, Stan returns and Kay sneaks out of the house. They race across the state line where Kay thinks they are going to be married, but when Stan tells her he had no intention of that. Her screams of shock draw the attention of a passing state trooper and Kay has to lie to avoid having Stan arrested. Almost in gratitude, Stan then proposes, but Kay has had enough and insists he take her to a bus station for the quickest ride back home. Back at Warren High, Kay is lonely since her friends were too busy with their steadies to spend time with her. Even Lucy reminds Kay that she told her Stan would never propose... and even though he did all Kay had were memories to prove it. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Synopsis | Love advice to teen readers. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Genre | Romance |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Synopsis | Subscription offer for Harvey Romance comics. 12 issues for $1.00 or 25 issues for $2.00. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Characters | Helen; Trudy; Dean Randall |
| Synopsis | Helen's childhood had been greatly affected by her parent's divorce when she was five. She promised herself that she wouldn't let romance leave her with a broken heart, and turned down any number of dates until Dean Randall moved to town. Dean had every girl's heart fluttering and Helen's friend Trudy was the first girl he dated, and fell head-over-heels for him. But it wasn't take long before Dean called Helen, and she, too, could not refuse him. Very quickly, they became a steady item until she suddenly felt trapped and broke it off with Dean. She soon sees Dean and Trudy dating again. Then late one afternoon Helen finds Trudy at her house. She tells Helen that she loves Dean... but all he wants is her. At the moment Dean comes to the door admitting that he could not stop thinking about her. Hopefully, they trust that Trudy will find a love as deep as theirs. |
| Genre | Romance |
| Pencils | John Sink |
| Inks | John Sink |
| Letters | Typeset |
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| Letters | Typeset |
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| Pencils | ? Photo |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Letters | Typeset |
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