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Cover: L. B. Cole
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True-to-Life Romances #4

May 1950 · Star Publications [1949-1954] · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains three romantic stories: "The Crash," depicting a couple's passionate encounter interrupted by a dismissal; "Border Love," in which a wealthy financier named Rex pursues a woman named Marge despite her reservations about his character, leading to conflict when he attempts to manipulate her with money and business dealings; and an untitled story following Lauren and Joe Smith, whose romance is tested when Joe must leave to fight in World War II, with Lauren struggling to accept his departure and uncertain about their future together as he prepares to go to war.

Contains 5 stories
Border Love
7 pp · Romance

FBI agent Steve Barlow crosses the border into Mexico to hunt down the ruthless killer Miguel Valdez, but his dangerous mission takes an unexpected turn when he rescues a young woman named Rosita from a runaway horse in the mountains. As Steve tends to her injuries and she falls for her rescuer, believing fate has sent him to her, the lines between duty and the heart become dangerously blurred—and the truth about who he really is threatens to shatter everything.

Untitled Humor story
0.5 pp · Humor
The Crash
6 pp · Romance

A Wall Street wonder kid lavishes everything—fortune, jewels, a custom car—on the enchanting Marge Harmon, a musical theater star, to win her hand, yet senses an emotional distance he can't quite breach. When he invests her life savings in the stock market on October 23, 1929, disaster strikes, forcing Rex to confront whether his wealth was ever what truly mattered between them. A poignant tale of love tested by the very crash that toppled an empire.

That Man Next Door
6 pp · Romance

A city woman who inherits a remote farm decides to stay and run it herself—much to the shock of her urban friends and the skepticism of her neighbor, Al Mason—but as she fights to prove herself capable of the work, her heart remains tied to Fred, the man she left behind in the city. When letters finally arrive that could change everything, she must reckon with what she's actually built out here and what she really wants. Written by the creative team behind this 1950 romance tale, "That Man Next Door" explores whether a woman's ambitions can coexist with love, or whether one must give way to the other.

Love Stopped By
7 pp · Romance

Lauren Trevor thought Joe Smith was beneath her—a truck driver from a working-class world so different from her own—but when he stops by the library where she works, something unexpected begins to shift between them. As their connection deepens, Lauren finds herself caught between her growing feelings for Joe and the disapproval of her parents, forcing her to reckon with what really matters in matters of the heart.

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Raw (Good) $662
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $15,733*
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CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $2,208*
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CGC 5.5 · 3 in census $1,596
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CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $1,261*
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Full credits

artist, inker L. B. Cole
cover pencils, inks L. B. Cole

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