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Personal Love #17

Sep 1952 · Eastern Color · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple romantic stories. "Open Season on Love!" follows a woman who spent most of her life in Montana with her father, hating hunters until autumn brings the hunting season and a charming hunter into her life. "Queen of the Barracks" tells of a woman serving in the military who becomes involved with a new commanding officer, Captain Clark, while also navigating romantic complications with other soldiers and concerns about her mother's wellbeing back home. Additional stories explore various romantic entanglements and personal dilemmas typical of the romance comic genre.

Contains 4 stories
Day of Reckoning
8 pp · Romance
DaneLydiaMarkRitaBlackie (a horse)

Rita thought she'd made peace with the past when her former fiancé Dane married her best friend Lydia years ago—but a visit to their remote ranch out West stirs up old feelings she believed long buried. As Rita witnesses the cracks in Dane and Lydia's marriage and finds herself drawn back into Dane's orbit, she must confront whether the bitterness she carried has truly faded, or if she's about to make a choice that could destroy everything she's built with Mark, the man she loves now.

Open Season on Love!
6 pp · Romance
Chuck GardnerDaffy Wayne [also as Daphne Wayne]Mr. SmithMr. Wayne

A young woman raised at her father's Montana hunting lodge despises the sportsmen who visit each season—until Chuck Gardner, a man from her past whose company she treasures, arrives with rifle in hand, forcing her to confront why she's suddenly pushed him away. When a chance encounter with danger reveals the truth behind her painful phobia, Daphne must reckon with whether her feelings for Chuck can survive the very thing she's learned to hate most.

"Queen" of the Barracks
3 pp · Romance, War
Brenda ParkerCaptain Peter ClarkPatTerry Carter

Terry Carter has built herself a reputation as the glamorous "Queen of the Barracks," spinning tales of exotic dates and sophisticated outings—until Captain Peter Clark arrives and upends everything she's carefully constructed. When Peter takes genuine interest in her without any of her usual tricks, Terry finds herself caught between the man she's always wanted and the web of embellished stories she's been spreading around the barracks. As her fabrications threaten to destroy Peter's real engagement, Terry faces a reckoning that forces her to choose between her pride and doing what's right.

My Cruel Deception
8 pp · Romance
Bruce ChamberlinAlice ChamberlinMegProfessor Swami (villain)

A young woman finds herself caught between two worlds when she's rescued by Professor Swami and taken in, only to discover he's running a confidence scheme—and she's become his unwitting accomplice. When she meets Bruce Chamberlin at one of the Professor's shows, genuine affection blooms between them, but her entanglement with the con artist and his exploitation of Bruce's mother, Alice Chamberlin, threatens to destroy everything. Meg must reckon with her conscience as the Professor demands she use her newfound closeness to the family for his financial gain.

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Raw (Good) $27
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $224
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CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $96
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CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $49*
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artist, inker Mike Roy

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