Tender Love Stories #1 Savannah pedigree (Skywald, 1971) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages....

Auction amount: $388.38

Sold: Feb 19, 2012

Tender Love Stories #1 Values

Publisher: Skywald, 1971

About Tender Love Stories #1

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COVER DETAILS

Title: My Kind of Music!

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Joe Sinnott

Letters: Joe Rosen

Notes: Pencils: Info by Richard Arndt, 2005-09-21 (Per Sandell ed.)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: My Kind of Music!

Characters: Midge Parker; Tommy Tucker; Celia French; Fred Boswell

Synopsis: Tommy leaves Midge to make his mark in the music world, but writes to let her know that things are going well and he is building for their future. But Midge becomes concerned when the letters stop and the phone doesn't ring. Eventually she tries going out with someone else, but her heart still belongs to Tommy. She decides to track Tommy down even if she makes a fool of herself. When she finds Tommy, she discovers he is playing in a dive and was to ashamed to let her know he was a flop.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Jack Katz ?

Inks: John Tartaglione

Letters: Irving Watanabe

Notes: New story. Credits per Nick Caputo, August 2015.

Title: Doomed to Silence!

Characters: Ken Blaine; Linda Johnson; Nance Johnson

Synopsis: Linda and Nance performed a two sisters dance act, but the older Nance always treated Linda as a kid around men even though Linda was eighteen. Linda came to realize that Nance did it to cling to her fading youth. She confronted Nance about it and Nance pleaded with Linda to give a last chance with Ken. Despite Linda's feelings for Ken, she agreed for her sister's sake. But one night when Nance was out, Linda walked into the living room in her lingerie to discover that Ken was there looking for Nance. Struck by Linda's womanly features, Ken called Linda the next night to ask her out.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Louis Ravelli ?; Ross Andru (see notes)

Inks: Louis Ravelli ?; Mike Esposito (see notes)

Letters: Jean Izzo

Notes: Art is heavily revised/redrawn by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. New lettering replaces the original typeset by Jean Izzo. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.

Title: Left at the Altar!

Characters: Jim Mayhew; Joan Stevens; Dave Norton

Synopsis: On the day of her wedding, Joan receives a telegram telling her that her fiance couldn't go through with it and was leaving for Australia. Later, when Joan takes a vacation, she decides to do to a man what was done to her. She picks Dave as her target and they spend the following days doing everything together. The wedding date is set for the next day at the resort, but Joan leaves on the train that evening. She is having second thoughts about her plan and gets off at the next station. Then she bumps into Dave who had been executing the same plan she had, but had also had second thoughts.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Frank Springer ?; Ross Andru (see notes)

Inks: Frank Springer ?; Mike Esposito (see notes)

Notes: Art heavily revised/redrawn from the original by Andru/Esposito. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.

Title: Unfaithful!

Characters: Frank Chisolm; Sally Bruce; Gilbert Trayne

Synopsis: Frank and Sally want to get married, but Frank doesn't earn enough yet to support them. He gets a new job that might make it possible, but he has to spend a year in South America. While Frank is gone, Sally's friend convinces her that she should have some fun and invites her to a party. At the party, Sally meets Gilbert and starts dating him. Eventually, Gilbert wants Sally to be his girl and Sally feels she loves him. When Frank returns home earlier than expected, she realizes it is Frank she loves, but she can't bring herself to tell Frank about Gilbert.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger ?; Ross Andru (see notes)

Letters: Jean Izzo

Notes: Art heavily altered/redrawn from original by Ross Andru and an unknown inker. New lettering by Jean Izzo.

Title: Would He Ever Be Mine?

Characters: Carol Ashley; Eric Thompson; Aunt Bella; Joey; Fran; Mr. Hadly; Ralph Benton; Joe Wilson; Rufe Tenton

Synopsis: Since grade school, Carol had enjoyed being passionate with lots of members of the opposite sex. After taking a job as a secretary in an insurance firm, she met Eric and forced herself to be the sweet girl he thought she was. Then she met Ralph and succumbed to his intense, demanding presence. But Ralph used her to help set up two men to be robbed at a hotel. Realizing after the fact what had happened, Carol confessed her role in the crime to Eric, then to the police.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Ogden Whitney ?; Bill Everett (see notes)

Inks: Ogden Whitney ?; Bill Everett (see notes)

Letters: Jean Izzo

Notes: Heavily revised/redrawn by Bill Everett, with new lettering by Jean Izzo. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2015.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	8
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	8

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