Heart Throbs #7

Aug 1950 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD

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Heart Throbs #7 is a romance anthology featuring multiple stories. "Darling of Deceit" tells of Terry, who falls in love with Lee despite her father's disapproval; when Lee's father threatens to disinherit him if he marries Terry, she pretends to run away to the Ozarks to spare Lee from the choice, leaving him heartbroken and confused. "Passion for Danger" follows Belinda Sue, a woman trapped in an unhappy life on a plantation who gradually resigns herself to loneliness until one day she receives a mysterious letter. The issue also includes "The Chains of Hatred," a story involving sandhog workers and their struggles, wherein a woman fears her beloved will suffer the fate of the dangerous tunnel work that has claimed others.

Contains 5 stories

Turmoil

9 pp · Romance

CarlDr. ListerDonna DrakeEdward DuboisFranklin PierceHobbsHughesMadame GirouxMr. BrewsterMr. JanningsMr. Stanunton

Franklin Pierce has everything—wealth, power, influence—yet finds himself suffocating under the weight of his own fortune, unable to find genuine happiness or love. When the woman he loves, Donna Drake, reveals her true nature as someone who covets his riches above all else, Franklin disappears, leaving his vast empire in her hands. What follows is Donna's ruthless ascent as she transforms the Pierce millions into a global financial juggernaut, discovering that the empire she builds may exact its own devastating price.

Darling of Deceit

7 pp · Romance

Ethel BarkleyGrannyHoward DodsonLee DodsonMadame CavanaughPorkyTerry Lawrence

Terry Lawrence's perfect life as a wealthy debutante is built on an elaborate hoax—one that's about to crumble when she falls genuinely in love with Lee Dodson, the son of her employer's friend. As romance deepens and Lee proposes, Terry faces an impossible choice: confess the truth and lose him forever, or marry him while living a lie. Caught between her real self and the false persona society has fallen for, Terry must decide what matters more—the man she loves or the truth he deserves to know.

In the Palm of His Hand

6 pp · Romance

Adele [also as Madame Farida]Jim HendryPeggySandra

Adele has long harbored a secret crush on Jim Hendry, but when she discovers he's interested in Sandra, she devises a daring scheme: she becomes Madame Farida, a fortune teller at a charity carnival, and tells Jim's fortune in a way that plants a seed of doubt about his feelings. When Jim returns to the fortune teller's tent seeking answers, Adele must decide whether to reveal her masquerade and risk losing him forever, or continue the deception that's drawn him closer to her.

The Chains of Hatred

9 pp · Romance

Agatha FlintBelinda Sue CulpepperBrock HadleyStacey Flint

Belinda Sue Culpepper's sheltered life on the ancestral plantation is upended when a man named Brock Hadley arrives seeking information about the family estate—and their innocent meetings by the brook soon blossom into love. When Belinda Sue's rigid older sister Agatha discovers their romance, the deep prejudices that have chained the South for generations threaten to tear the young couple apart, forcing Belinda Sue to choose between family duty and her own heart's freedom.

Passion for Danger

8 pp · Romance

Bob HackettLesMack TurnerMr. HackettRedSandy Hackett

In this 1950 romance, Sandy Hackett watches the dangerous profession of sandhogging claim her father—the same fate that haunted her mother years before—when Mr. Hackett suffers a severe attack while working the tunnel. When Mack Turner, a fellow sandhog who loves Sandy, asks her to marry him at the hospital, she faces an impossible choice: a life of worry that destroyed her mother, or a love she can't bring herself to accept on his terms. Caught between her heart and the fear that history will repeat itself, Sandy must decide what she's willing to sacrifice.