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Issue Details

Issue V2#6 [#12]
Published August 1950
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia: YOUNG LOVE is published monthly by Crestwood Publishing Co., at 8 Lord Street, Buffalo. N.Y. Editorial and Executive offices at 1790 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y. Single copy 10c. Yearly subscription (12 issues) $1.20 in the U.S.A. Entered as Second Class Matter, Nov. 3, 1948 at the post office at Buffalo, N.Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. The stories in this magazine are true, but the names and places have been changed and should not be identified with any known institution nor with any actual persons living or dead. No responsibility is accepted for unsolicited manuscripts. Entire contents Copyrighted 1950 by Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc. August, 1950, Vol. 2, No. 6. Printed in U.S.A.

Cover Details

Genre Romance
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Notes Cover blurb: "The Original Young Romance Group"

1 page Life-Study Fellowship advertisement "With God All Things Are Possible"

Genre Religious
Letters typeset
Notes "You will surely bless this day -- so please don't delay! Just mail your name and address now with 6c in stamps..."

8 page story "Smooth Operator!"

Genre Romance
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes art credit source: Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk

8 page story "The Love Fakers!"

Genre Romance
Pencils Leonard Starr
Notes art credit source: Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk

1 page Nancy Hale text article "Are You Welcome?"

Genre Advice
Letters typeset
Notes Color head shot illustration of "Nancy Drake" accompanies article, which has a drawn art border of flowers.

8 page story "One Mad Moment!"

Genre Romance
Pencils Leonard Starr
Notes art credit source: Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk

1 page Black Magic promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes Ad shows mock-up cover (not the published #1) of first issue of Black Magic by Jack Kirby. "Watch for this first big issue! Ask your newsdealer to reserve your copy!"

2 page Nancy Hale's Problem Clinic story "Treatment for the Troubled Heart"

Genre Romance
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes art credit source: Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk

8 page story "Because You Look Like Him!"

Genre Romance
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Bill Draut
Notes art credit source: Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk

1 page text article "Summer Beauty Tricks by Charmaigne"

Genre Advice
Letters typeset
Notes Color head shot illustration of "Charmaigne" accompanies article, which has a drawn art border of flowers. Leg Glamor; Collar Care; Your Teeth

7 page story "Her Kind of Man!"

Pencils Vic Donahue (signed)
Notes first panel of story is signed "Vic"; art credit confirmed by Jack Kirby Museum, kirbymuseum.org, Young Love Checklist by Harry Mendryk