''Teen-Age Romances'' was an American

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series produced by

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. Each issue was a series of

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stories involving a wide cast of characters. The first three issues began with a standard format of five stories each, and then it branched out to various larger numbers.

Publication history

''Teen-Age Romances'', one of a late-1940s spate of romance comics, ran 45 issues, cover-dated January 1949 to December 1955.''Teen-Age Romances''
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, with at least two issues published under that publisher's Approved Comics

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, it included among its artists

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and

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. Many stories were written by Dana Dutch. Issues #4-8 (Aug. 1949 - Feb. 1950) carried photographic covers, and issues #26-30 (Nov. 1952 - March 1953) used painted covers, rather than standard penciled-and-inked drawn covers.

Stories

The titles of the various stories include:

1949

#January (Too Young for Love?) ##They Called Me a Wayward Girl ##Too Many Dates Were My Downfall ##Was I Too Young for Love? ##I Played Hide and Seek with Love ##I Spelled Ki$$e$ the Wrong Way #April (no title) ##I Dared to Kiss and Tell ##We Couldn't Be Kept Apart ##They Made Me a Cinderella ##How Could I Fight Temptation? ##I Took the Wrong Road to Romance #July (I Was Afraid to Fall in Love) ##I Didn't Want a Stepfather ##I Was Afraid to Fall in Love ##Did I Give My Love Too Freely? ##Stand-In for Scandal ##Spitework Was My Folly #August (I couldn't give up my SECRET LOVE) ##Moonlight Escapade ##Never Gamble on a Lie ##You're What the Boys Like ##Does Necking Increase a Girl's Popularity? ##Hollywood Pin-Ups - Peter Lawford ##They Called Me a Love Thief ##Pleasure Boat ##

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Beside the regular sales tax, there's an amusement tax on that model!"##Phony Love Affair ##I Couldn't Give Up My Secret Love ##I'll Not Date in August ##Short Cuts to Glamour ##Platter Chatter ##Step Out, Please! ##Movie Previews #September (I was a HOLLYWOOD CINDERELLA) ##Come-On Girl ##I Was a Hollywood Cinderella ##My One Little Mistake ##Love Is Born ##Rival in Love ##Platter Chatter ##Brushes to Beauty #October (I was Caught Stealing Kisses) ##Flame of Youth ##It Doesn't Pay to Steal Kisses ##Rx for a Broken Heart ##Was I a Fool to Go On Loving Him? ##I Lived a Lie ##Was I Really a Bad Girl? #November (I RAN AWAY FROM HOME) ##I Ran Away from Home ##Reputation at Stake ##Suspicion Nearly Killed My Love ##The Love Bargain I Couldn't Keep

References

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