Hi-School Romance #11

From Harvey Publications' line of "True Love Stories," this October 1951 issue of Hi-School Romance opens with a cover by Al Avison that's full of charged, furtive energy — a young woman in a red dress leans out a window to pass a large box down to a young man waiting on a ladder below, the whole scene radiating the secretive urgency promised by the tagline: "They were caught in the merciless spotlight of scandal...the whole town whispered, gossiped, condemned!" Inside, Jack Sparling's artwork (with lettering by Joe Rosen) brings you the featured story "I Promised Too Much!" alongside more tales of teenage hearts in complicated situations. A ten-cent slice of early-'50s romantic drama that wears its emotional stakes right on its sleeve.