I found these
Love Diary
stories—most usefully the untitled Prescription for Happiness
installments undescribed in the GCD indexes—when the issues
were
put
online on the Digital Comic Museum and on Comic Book Plus.
Prescription for Happiness asks readers' advice in order to give cash
prizes for the best letters. As of
Love
Diary 3 text, Ray
Mann is "Miss Mann" (since she's
publisher/editor Ray Hermann), but with the first Prescription in issue
4 and Mann's being pictured as a character,
she becomes a he for the rest of the run.
Before seeing the scanned issue itself, I had figured "My Office
Lover" fit into
LD
8 with the other romance stories William Woolfolk recorded writing that
month, but it actually
waited twelve issues to get published under a changed title and page
count.
Until
I saw it, the
Tom Mix Western
9 story "Mistaken Identity" seemed, from the
title, the best match in the timeframe for the idol of outlaws
description. But (this issue was also put online since my post) that
story turns out not to be about Mix's
being an idol of outlaws and it's not in Woolfolk's style.
darkmark tracked down the Monte Hale.
Comic
Book Scripts by William Woolfolk
—updates to earlier posts
November
1947
| 9 pg |
Tom
Mix |
the
idol
of outlaws |
|
|
TM
Western or Wow |
June
1948
| 9 |
Monte
Hale |
tournament for marksmen |
|
|
"The
Killers' Tournament" MH
Western 33,
Feb/49 |
April
1950
| 9 |
My
Office Lover |
secretary & her
boss |
| 7 |
|
"I
Loved My Boss" Love
Diary 20, Sept/51 |
May
1953
| 3 |
Prescription
for Happiness |
guy supports his family
and so can't marry |
|
|
[untitled
PFH] L
Diary 37, Oct/53 |
July
1953
| 2 |
Prescription
for Happiness |
gal with lousy family
loves guy |
|
|
[untitled
PFH] L
Diary 39, Jan/54 |
August
1953
| 10 |
Cold,
Cold Heart |
a girl afraid of men
because once she was nearly raped |
|
|
"Cold,
Cold Heart" L
Diary 40, Feb/54 |
September
1953
| 3 |
Prescription
for Happiness |
city gal loves farm boy |
|
|
[untitled
PFH] L
Diary 40, Feb/54 |
November
1953
| 2 |
Prescription
for Happiness |
guy loves a selfish gal |
|
|
[untitled
PFH] L
Diary 41, Mar/54 |
February
1954
| 3 |
Prescription
for Happiness |
girl afraid she'll lose
guy if he goes back to college |
|
|
[untitled
PFH] L
Diary 44, June/54 |
The Tom Mix story could be "The God of Evil" from TOM MIX WESTERN #5 (May 1948), but without an issue to check, it's impossible to verify.
ReplyDeleteThat's a different interpretation than I had but sounds just as good--and I wish kids had held onto more Fawcett westerns for posterity!
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