 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading. Now, as you know, we're sort of half way through or third of the way through reading set number four that we're doing where we picked out 32 books to read, right? And we've read some key issues and some issues from that lot that we're just interested in reading and along the way I've picked out a few comic books either from my collection or from more recent comic book hauls for us to have a read through, right? And what we're going to do in this comic book reading is have a read through Young Love number 31, okay? From 1952 by Crestwood Publications Prize Comics, okay? Now this comic book is from a recent comic book haul that we had. We have someone that's been following the work we've been doing here regarding the comic books and some of the other stuff that we've been doing, but specifically regarding the comic books and they love the comic book hauls that we're doing, the comic book readings and the comic book discussions that we're having. So what they ended up doing was sending some funds our way to do another comic book haul and this book is from that haul, okay? So a huge thank you to Nicholas for sending the funds over for us to grab the books that we did and we ended up getting 23 books with those funds plus a little top up from my end, right? And this is one of the books that we're going to that we ended up getting that we're gonna read and what we're gonna do is we're gonna read two more books from this haul that we had and this is it was basically that we've already loaded up the videos, comic book haul number 23 or 24, I believe, comic book haul number 24, right? And we ended up getting two romance comics, okay, in that haul and this is one of them and we're gonna have a read through this and the other one is this one right here, which is a love story, okay? And this one came out in 1950, okay? So in the next comic we'll call reading this is we're gonna read one story from this comic and we're gonna flip through the comic as well and the reason I tracked down these books or I ended up putting the bits in to buy these books and we ended up getting an amazing deal on these things, right? We ended up grabbing the young love for 244 US, which is basically 325 Canadian and we ended up grabbing life story for a dollar Canadian, which is basically 75 cents US, right? Amazing deals and as soon as I tell you who's done some of the work in these comics you'll know why they're amazing deals, right? For young love what we're about to read there's a few giants that done the work for this and Cresswood Publications Prize comics was basically a pioneer for romance comics, right? And what we're gonna do is read a story by Jack Kirby in this, okay? The artwork done by Jack Kirby and for life story the story that we're gonna read is by Wally Wood, right? The artwork done by Wally Wood, right? So fantastic, we got two books from the golden age of comics for basically you know, a little bit between three to four dollars US for both of them, right? Combined, so I'm just gonna put this one aside. We will read through this one and we're gonna crack open this one and have a read through it and talk about the comic a little bit, okay? So let me give you a little bit of history on this book and what I'm gonna do is while we talk about it I'm gonna take it out of the bag that way you don't get the glare coming off of it, okay? So let's crack this open for now and then we'll have a little talk about it and as before we're gonna take the tape put it on the side so it doesn't get snag, right? And we're gonna pull this out, put this guy on the side. Now I ended up grabbing this book for like I said, $2.44 US, $3.25 Canadian and it's great at very good. It's from 1992 and it's Young Love issue number 31, okay? And it came out I believe for Valentine's, right? Fantastic, nice photo cover with the heart in it, right? Beautiful, true romance confessions it says and it's got the Young Love little logo there with the young love title on it, right? Now what does it say? Here's the logo for a prize publications, all right? Now let me tell you what the story is about prize publications and I didn't, you know, as you know if, let me just flip this thing that way when we're flipping the book the pages don't snag or get loose. Now as you know I've just recently got into last three years or so, three or four or five years or so that I started buying moral mass comics and I believe we've done at least one romance comic reading. Hopefully we've done one romance comic reading. If not this is going to be our first romance comic reading. We've done a fair bit of readings, comic book readings. So if there isn't a romance comic in there this is our first romance comic, right? And prize comics, okay? It's also known as Crestwood publications, okay? And the editors, the people who put this together is Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, okay? That's the duo team that really came up with the prize comics company, sort of the offshoot that was publishing on their Crestwood publications, also known as feature publications, okay? They're sort of considered to be the people that put out the first ongoing horror comic book featuring Frankenstein and under this prize comics, right? This company, okay? They published Black Magic, Fighting American and the first comic book title called Romance Comic that came out in 1947, right? So the first continuing sort of romance comic genre was kicked off by the same people that created this, which is Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. And that was in 1947 with Young Romance. And this is 1952 Young Love issue number 31, right? And Young Love was the second series that they kicked off through because Young Romance when they started it was a huge hit, huge hit, right? They were selling millions of copies. What I found online, which I find unbelievable is that 92%, this is from Wiki, I believe, 92% of their print runs for prize comics was the Young Romance comics, right? And they were selling millions of copies of that title. And they sort of giving birth to the genre. What they had done was on top of it, they had noted that the romance comics were for adult readers, more people who are more mature that aren't, you know, really into following superhero comics. And they want to hear, read stories about romance and love and possibly true stories, right? And let's take a look at this. This is graded at very good minus, right? And the staples are nicely intact. Beautiful. A little bit of chipping going on on the cover, right? A little bit of browning on the edges. But otherwise, it's beautifully, nicely intact, a little bit of chipping. Look at this. We're going to flip through this and take a look at all of it, right? Chipping, awesome, awesome, awesome, right? Now, through Crestwood, through prize, prize publications, there are some giants that worked for Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, went through this company, okay? And this company was only around for, you know, a few years. Crestwood, I believe. Let me find where I took the notes for this. Was around, prize comics was around from 1940 to 1968, right? I have some notes laying around here for me so we can go through this stuff and hopefully tell you as much as I found out on this or as much as possible, right? So they were around for about two and a half decades, right? From 1940 to 1968. And there's a lot of people that worked for this company, right? Dick Ayers, Bruno Permani, Carmen Infantino, right? Will Elder, Joe Severin, right? These are some of the names that I just wrote down, right? Mort Menzkin, right? There's a tremendous number of people that worked for this company. And in this issue, there is five stories, right? Take a look at this. Produced by Simon and Kirby, right? Fantastic, fantastic. And this one, this title, this is the one that we're going to read actually. This is done by Jack Kirby, the pencils. The inks in the script, we're not 100% sure. Some people say it's Jack Kirby. Some places I found was Jack Kirby. Some places, it was sort of a question mark. It was left blank that we didn't know it was, right? And Jack Kirby is huge, right? He's the king of comics, basically. He's, without Jack Kirby, there would be no Marvel comics. And if there was a Marvel comics without Jack Kirby, it wouldn't be the Marvel comics that we know of right now, right? It wouldn't have, most likely, Captain America, because Jack Kirby's credited with creating Captain America. Fantastic for the fourth world Hulk, the X-Men, right? Like just tremendous Silver Surfer Galactus. Basically all or most of the great loved characters, if from Marvel comics and from comics in general, were either created solo by Jack Kirby or collaboration with other creators. Okay. So we're going to read this story, which is basically a six-page, one, two, three, four, five. Six-page story by Jack Kirby, Be My Valentine, right? And here's some of the advertisements that people love, right? Fat men and women, let's read some of this. Fat men and women who are normally overweight will be amazed to discover this safe, pleasant, scientific way to lose ugly fat and get a slimmer, more attractive figure. Oh, wow. Medical doctors say chew, improve formula, kelp and dine chewing gum. Reduce, reduce, kelp, kelp. I have never even heard of this, right? Chew gum, improve formula, kelp and dine chewing, right? Chew gum. Reduce up to five pounds a week with Dr. Phil reducing plan. What? I'm surprised this isn't being advertised at present. It's fun to reduce with kelp and dine chewing gum. Now I'll be curious to find out what the health implications of this were. No drugs, no starving, no massage, no exercise, no steaming, no laxatives. Lose 10, 20, 30 pounds. Wow, wow, wow. Now just imagine a young Jack Kirby drawing a romance comics, right? With Joe Simon. And Joe Simon is credited with this. So I'm guessing maybe Joe Simon, right? Is produced by Simon and Kirby. So I'm guessing once we start reading it, we might get a feel of this little sort of Jack Kirby's writing when Joe Simon is writing, right? Some of you experts out there might have a good feel for it. Okay. Wow, look at this one. Now this one, The Great Indoors. Okay. This one is done by George Rosos and Mort Menzkin. Okay. And just to give you an idea of how many comic books these people have to their credit. Okay. George Rosos, from one of the comic book databases, okay. He has 1,952 issues comic books credited to him. Right. Incredible. He was actor from 1940 to the 1980s. Okay. He also went by the name of George Bell. And he was one of the primary Silver Age incurs for Jack Kirby's pencils. Right. So he did a lot of work for Marvel and stuff like this. Beautiful, beautiful. And let me read you a little bit, a little bit of a thing I found out. Just a, this is a little excerpt from, let me give you a closer up on this. Little excerpt of, that I found on Wiki, right. And here, let's look at this panel. This was beautiful, the opening one, right. Sitting by the fire. What does this say? Let's read this guy. Something had to give when the sport, sport who loved hunting and fishing and the open sky met the girl from The Great Outdoors. What a romantic night Wally. Isn't it nice to sit before the fire like this together? Yeah. On a night like this, the git fish are running like murder. Boy, I sure would like to be out on a boat now, pulling them in. Really? Sitting by the fire. Nice romantic setting and you want to be on a boat pulling fish. I doubt it. Maybe it does. It's crazy. Now here's a little excerpt I found on Wiki. Let me just read it to you. Okay. Now he's done a lot of work for EC Comics as well and numerous other publishers, right. Bob Kane and Bill Finger hired him to assist Inker Jerry Robertson on Batman stories. So George Russo's was hired by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the creators of Batman, to do some of the Batman stories. Russo's duties included drawing backgrounds, inking and lettering, starting as early as Batman number two, summer of 1940. Wow, wow, wow. The person who did this was working on Batman number two from 1940. And this thing is from 1952, right. One of the comics most famous covers, right, okay. The Avengers number four from 1964, Pencil by Jack Kirby and Ink by Russo, Russo's, right. So he also worked, and we're talking about the cover of, with Captain America coming back from the Golden Age, right, with his, you know, with the classic Jack Kirby cover with the pencils and Russo did the inking for it, Russo's did the inking for it, right. Here's another story, okay. This is another six-pager by Mort Meskin and Mort Meskin did the layouts for the previous one by Russo's, right. Now, Mort Meskin has 393 issues to his credit, okay. That beautiful work, just a lot of detail. And the facial expressions are huge from the Golden Age of comics, okay. Beautiful, beautiful. And he was mainly around Meskin, was around in Golden Age and up to the Silver Age of comics and he did some work in the Silver Age of comics as well, right. Beautiful, beautiful. Ends with a beautiful kiss. Awesome. Happy love stories. And Joe Simon, Jack Kirby's partner that co-created Captain America. He worked at timely, timely was sort of the precursor to Marvel comics and stuff like this. He's been credited with 447 issues in one of the comic book databases that we saw, that I looked at, right. So right now together, okay, the three care, the three people that we've talked about so far, the creators that have worked on this, together they have about, you know, 3,000 comic books in their name, right. To give you an idea how huge Jack Kirby is, Jack Kirby alone has been credited with three, over 3,000 issues, books that he's published, that he's created, okay. So Jack Kirby is the king and that is the reason why we're going to read the first issue, okay. The first story of this, right. Now this one is called the house of your dreams. And this is by John Prentice. And John Prentice, I couldn't find too much info on. He's only been credited with 81 issues, right. So I'm guessing he must have moved on to a different career back in the golden age of comics, right. Something that paid more. House of your dreams. You can look now darling. Here it is. The model of the new manor house, our castle in the country. Made, made and mortgaged for the two of us. Oh net, it must be beautiful. I'm so excited, almost terrified. I'm so about to take his first look at heaven. Now take a look at that. The bubble, what she's imagining, right. House with pillars and stuff like this. The house, the model house that her lover, her partner, her husband, whoever he is is holding up, right. I hope she's not disappointed when she opens her eyes. Cute. Take a look and here's a white picket fence. And they're driving up. I would love to have one of these cars. Preferably electric, right. Turn right to happy acres. Oh my, oh my. Cute. Oh look at the spider webs on there. And the house. They're a lot. Oh she's working away, fixing up the house. Oh no, she put paint on his jacket. Oh, oh in the yard, fixing up the yard. The plumbing's shut. Look at them moping down there. A lot of these romance comics from the Golden Age. They sort of went, unfortunately a lot of them, a lot of the companies that were producing a lot of romance comics went bankrupt because of the Golden Age, because of the comic code that kicked in. Okay, look at this. What's this? How he proposed. Oh my. And this is a one-pager. Okay. And this is done by George Russo Sagan. Okay. Let's read this one. It's a one-pager. I believe it's a one-pager. It could be a two-pager. No, it's a one-pager. So let's have a read through this one. All right. The doctor had a case on the nurse, but that was as far as it went. Then complications set in and nurse Edith had to go out on an emergency case. And that was how he proposed Roger when he interned in the same hospital where I took nursing, writes Edith. Our love bloomed, but even after we graduated, nothing more tangible occurred. Another couple of years at this hospital, Edith, Edith, and I'll be ready. Oh, he's talking. I'm reading as if it's a sort of a story. So the husband or the doctor, what's his name? Roger is talking. Another couple of years at this hospital, Edith, and I'll be ready to enter practice. Then we can be serious about each other. Oh my, he's totally dragging her along. Edith, what's wrong? What did I do? Nothing. And that's the trouble with you, Dr. Roger. I don't think we ought to see each other any longer. I hope you'll be happy battling your way to the top alone. She wasn't happy at this at all. Edith is writing. I meant it. I wasn't going to wait until Roger had a million dollars and a castle to offer me. I wanted a bungalow for two now. I refuse to see him anymore. One day, the registry sent me out to a housing development on an emergency. Roger's mother, what's she doing here? I must be at the wrong address, I was told. So I'm guessing that's Roger's mother, right? You were told correctly, Edith, dear. Your patient is inside. It was Roger, of course. The handsome faker. My heart faltered. But I stilled my trembling hands with as professional an air as I could muster. Evidently, you'll live. First, I'll take your temperature. Oh, I'm burning, Edith. My love for you has me raging fever. By the way, do you like this house? I slapped down a payment on it, just in case you'll want to stay here and be a doctor's wife. What can a girl answer when there are tears of happiness that begins somewhere in a dry, dry throat? I threw away thermos, the thermometer and answered Roger with my lips. Oh my, saucy, saucy indeed, saucy indeed, right? For the mature reader, definitely. 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As far as investing goes, that would have been a way better investment. Oh, here's Black Magic. Awesome. What's this? Write thrilling love letters. And as some of these stories that came out in these romance comics, there were letters that were sent to the publishers and they were given permission to write a story about them. And there are stuff like that happening online. There's one place where you can send them one website that has this creating sex that people are sexting each other. They send in their stories, their sex texting, and they're making video shorts for those messages, the texting messages that they've sent they wanted to share. So that's along the same lines as what these are. Now monthly, by popular demand, Black Magic magazine. Cool. True amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told. And again, we have stuff like that happening as well. Ask your news dealer to reserve your copy. Take a look at this one. And this should be the last story which is, what advice would you have? Would you have given? Oh no, wait a second. This is a two page story by, oh, take a look at this. It's backwards. I wonder if it's backwards. Upside down. And this one is also a two page story by George Rusos. Oh, so it's a story looking at what's going on with a love counselor, right? It's like one of those puzzles. And I guess the counselor gives the advice but it's upside down so people can't read it right away. They think about it. Let's read this and then I'll read this. Okay. And there it is reader. Let's pretend, let's check it out. And there it is reader. Let's pretend you are the love counselor. What would you decide as an answer to Alice's problem? Then look at Nancy Hale's advice below. Is yours an agreement? That's reader advice. Okay. Let's check it out. That's cool. This is the first time we're doing something like this as well. Tell him there's no substitute for honesty between a man and a wife. Ronald would only love you, love you, love you the more for it and possibly carry hurt and anger the rest of his life for you if you have, if he found out by any other means. Honestly, that's good advice. Let's read this part too. Why not? Imagination. Read the following account carefully. This story of Alice, W, who has found immeasurable happiness only to fear losing it because of a family secret. What would you tell her if you were the love counselor to whom she turned? Honesty. All cases. No matter what death, what the issue is, honesty is the way to go. Bargain galore, magic loop, fishbowl, rings, ladies, sport text, watch. $7 or $8. Platinum. $4.19. Look at these small busts. Wow, wow, wow. Look at the pictures. Classic advertisement style. Poorly lit picture standing a little bit more sideways. Shoulders back. At another angle. Nude. Nude, white, black, blue, sizes 28 to 38. No pads. And this is the last story. And this one is by Mort Meskin. Okay. The person who's done some of the work before as well. Let's read this title for it. Sometimes it takes more than love to budge a man into marriage. It takes a wonderful gal like baby doll. Now keep in mind, this is 1952. I don't know how dominant the penetration rate was for television in 1952 in the United States, but I'm assuming there were many households that did not have television. They had radios and stuff. So this would have been the form of entertainment they would have, right? Millions of copies of this. From all accounts, the first romance comics that came out, right? By issue number three, they had tripled the print run for young romance with prize comics, right? That's how much the demand was for these love stories. And I've actually seen a little bit of the love stories make a comeback recently. I know I mentioned a couple of years ago in one of the comic book videos that there weren't too many love stories around, but it appears that they might be coming back. I hope so. I hope so. What does the letter say? Check this out. At the end, darling Betty, I miss you very much. And there is something that I'm assuming says something, something I want to ask you. I guess it's marriage, right? Wow, look at these. Miss Lee fashion. Get a dress for $8 for $10 for $11. You can send them the sizes. They have all the different sizes. Gorgeous dresses for you without paying one cent, really. Mother's housewives. Here's an amazing new plan. Now reduce tummy measurement up to four inches instantly or pay nothing. And have a little star there. Where's a little star? Go check that out. So disclaimer. Where is their disclaimer? Take a look at this. The little disclaimer goes way down here. It says, according to your anatomical structure up here. Fabulous, most amazing foundation ever made featuring Brevi, the new miracle tummy thinner. Like that. Picture, she's pushing her stomach out and then she puts this whatever is called miracle tummy Brevi. Brevi, the new miracle tummy thinner. And then her stomach looks and pops in, right? Crazy. What's the back stuff? And the back stuff is like things you can order. Premium. Given premium cash, boys and girls, ladies, act now, male coupon. We are reliable our fifth 36 years, 36 years. Premium cash, so I guess they buy them. It's almost like a pawn shop, right? Should we have a read through the first story? Be My Valentine by Jack Kirby. Let's read that little bottom part, the way we always do. Too small, I don't think you'll be able to read it. But let me have a read through this. So this is volume number four, number one. March 1952. Young Love is published monthly by Crestwood Publications Company, incorporated. Eighth Lord Street, Buffalo, New York. Editorial office, 1790 Broadway, New York, 19 New York. Single copy, 10 cents. Subscription, $1.20, 12 issues. Re-entered a second class matter, July 22nd, 1949, at the post office at Buffalo, New York. Under the act of March 3rd, 1879, the stories in this magazine are true. Wow. But the names and places have been changed and should not be identified with any actual persons living or dead. No responsibility is assumed for unsolicited manuscripts. Entire content copyrighted 1951 by Crestwood Publishing Company, incorporated. So the stories in this are true. Printed in the USA. And again, the artwork for this is done by Jack Kirby, that we know. We don't know who did the script for it or the inks. Some places were saying that the script and the inks were also done by Jack Kirby, but the script could be done by Joe Simon as well. I found one place that was mentioning that Joe Simon was a contributor to this. And this is produced by Simon and Kirby, the people that brought us Captain America, plus many, many, many other marvels, mainly superhero line of characters, especially Jack Kirby. He's the king of comics, the person that came up with many of our loved characters. Okay. This is just a bit of a pace board, edged into lace. But in mischievous hands, it can cause great havoc. Well, we'll let you in on a little secret. This paper heart has been tampered with, and it's being mailed to the wrong party. You know what it will say to her? Be my Valentine. What does that say? To miss, to miss something. I can't make that. Here's the mail miss. Looks like some lovesick young, uh, Scallowag has sent you a Valentine. Gosh, I can't imagine who it's from, she says. She's in a robe, I think. The card came in the mail that Valentine's Day. I received it with mixed feelings. Written on it was sentimental verse and the name of a man. It was a name that made me cry. Scott, Scott. Good grief, Guinea. Is that you crying? G-I-N. You couldn't really blame me for crying. The world made me, had been an empty place since the day Scott and I had fallen out. And this sentimental bit of pace board and lace reopened the crypt where my love, pain, and other discarded memories were buried. Ginny, honey, stop it. I thought you'd gotten over Scott. Oh, she's sobbing. Over his picture won't bring him back. Oh, so that's it, a Valentine. Why that impudent young scoundrel. Don't say that. I know what you think. That'll be hurt again. But I've got to risk it. I'm going to see Scott. You'd be a fool. Scott's engaged to Ruth Nicholas. He had no right to send you that Valentine. No, mother. But don't you see, Scott and I broke up because we were both stubborn. Neither would concede to the other. But he must still love me. I've got to go to him, she says. Despite further protest from mother, I went to see Scott. Pride in hand and heart upon my sleeve. Why, why, Ginny, Scott, I came in, came in answer to this. She's got the little coat. Oh, Scott, I've been such a stubborn idiot. Your Valentine has given me the chance I waited for to see you again. That's fine, Ginny. But all it is to be able to say that word, I love you, Scott. Somehow I knew you still cared. Well, what a touching little scene. From the third act of all hearts reclaim no doubt. Guess that's her, his fiancee, right? I didn't expect to see Ruth Nicholas. She and I had once been good friends. That is until Scott took up with her after a flare-up. It's happened, hasn't it, Scott? In again, with the old, out with the new. You could have given me a few days notice, Scott. Whoa, hold it, Ruth. Give me a chance to gather my wits, don't leave. Ginny, this is all wrong. I'm all mixed up. Ruth and I are engaged. You must have heard. I know, Scott. She must be heard seeing us together again. Reconcealed. Reconcealed. But Ginny, you don't understand. Wait. It won't be right, darling. You must tell her yourself. I'll meet you at eight. You know the spot. I should have been happy, but I wasn't. The situation disturbed me. Scott and the flesh fell short of Scott. In the Valentine, it didn't make sense. At eight, I found out why. Scott, you remembered the place. Look, Ginny, we've got to talk. There's been an embarrassing mistake. He says, you see, I never sent you a Valentine. It was just someone's idea of being funny. Oh, no. Funny. Oh, Scott, you don't mean what you're saying. You did send it, didn't you? No, Ginny. I didn't. This thing is as shocking to me as it must be to you. You can understand how this places me with Ruth. I've asked her to meet me here. You want me to help you explain, of course. I tried to tell you this afternoon when I realized what had happened, but I couldn't. I know what it must have cost you to humble yourself. It's all right, Scott. I believe I can get over you now. Here comes your girl. I'll tell her the truth after you've kissed her. Hello. I wanted to turn away. I wanted to end it clearly, once and for all, but I ached and yearned for Scott for so long. My love had grown to outrageous proportions. I couldn't help the outrageous impulse. I'll say goodbye the same way. What? Again? She's kissing him. This is too much, Scott. Insult on injury. Surely you didn't ask me down to see this, did you? Please, Ruth. It's all my fault. Won't you listen? What I've seen speaks for itself. However, I'm not a vindictive person. I'm only too willing to do the sporting thing. Oh, be yourself, Ruth. You know I won't. I wouldn't. I am myself. For the first time in a year, I haven't enjoyed being a substitute sweetheart, Scott. May you both be very happy. Goodbye. Ruth, Ruth, you must let me explain, she says. She was only too willing to do the sporting thing. I suppose it's what she wanted. I've really devastated your love life, haven't I? It's possible that you may have improved it. You know, that kiss had real zing. I think it jolted a lot of old wheels into motion. Strange. The very same thing happened to me when I received the Valentine, she says. Ginny, let's go into Tony's restaurant, where we can both write. I've been a stubborn idiot on the tablecloth 500 times. Somehow, we never quite got around to that chore. Instead, we ate a good deal of Tony's excellent spaghetti, and danced to the dreamy music of the jukebox. Nice. We came so close to losing each other forever. I'll never let you go again, Ginny. Just try to get rid of me, he says. Scott and I were more in love than ever. Our love was the one thing that counteracted the occasional, disquieting thoughts I had about Ruth. It seems that wedding invitations from fake Valentine's grow. I wonder if Ruth would care for that sentiment. I lived in a golden world of happiness, but I couldn't manage to shake off that guilty feeling about Ruth. The prospect of meeting her made me uneasy, but in a small town like ours, it had to happen. Scott, Ginny, how nice. Did you kids know Dave Hall? Oh, she's got a new boy. They both dressed in blue, different color hats. Never had the pleasure. Hi, Dave. They get introduced. Ruth didn't seem unhappy, but she didn't want to talk. It was she who suggested that we join them. And it was Ruth who led the way to the powder room later. Ruth, I want to talk to you. Ginny, I want to talk to you. I think there's some stuff going to be coming out. The tension broke with that exchange, and we laughed spontaneously, a warm air of friendship formed between us. Then you won't hate me for what happened. I wouldn't blame any girl for going after Scott. I did, but I didn't. I'd been too late, at least. I'd always felt that way, she says. You were there before me, Ginny. And I took Scott on the rebound. I was sorry later, because I could never keep from wondering whether his love for you had really died. Things might have turned out differently if you hadn't doubted him. I don't mind things as they are. I found Dave Hall, and I couldn't be happier. We're going steady, nice. Ruth, how wonderful. I'm so glad for you both. All seemed right with the world when Scott saw me home that night. My heart was free and unfettered. The ghost had fled, and the moon was full and bright. Dave Hall told me about himself and Ruth. I'm very pleased. It means she can forget me. That's what he's saying. So the boys were talking, while the girls were talking, right? Conceited of. I suppose you think you're a special character, she says. You know I am. You lucky wench. You know I am. You lucky wench. Just think, if some wise acre hadn't sent you a phony valentine, you may not have been in my arms this minute. Whoever wrote that valentine sure knew how to stir up an old romance. You will admit, she says. I could have told him, but I let sleeping dogs lie. I wonder what Scott would have said if he knew that I had sent that valentine myself. Oh wow, what? Tricky, she was playing. Oh my. Until we read this, I thought maybe it was her mom, or maybe it was, what's her name? I forget, Ruth, right? Maybe it was Ruth testing out her love with him, or her mom trying to get her daughter to go after her love one more time. She sent it herself. Wow, wow, wow. Cool story. Tricky, tricky. Fantastic, fantastic. Great golden age romance comic. And in the description, I was looking this stuff up. I believe it was in my comic shop, they have a database there. They're saying this guy, sort of a look-alike for a young Robert Redford, but when I look at it, I don't think it is. I don't think it is. Fantastic story. Nice read, nice read. And thank you very much again, Nicholas, for contributing for us to be able to get this comic book, to have a read through it. And we will be reading a couple more from this haul as well, okay? I hope you enjoyed. Nice romance comic. And we're gonna do one more in the next video. Read the Next Story, okay? By Wally Wood. That's it for now, gang. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.