 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to our second romance comic reading in this batch that we're doing. And in the previous reading, what we did, we read through Young Love, number 31, right? And specifically we read through the art by Jack Kirby, okay? And it's the first story and it was called Be My Valentine. So nice, nice read, fun read. And we took a look at some of the history behind this comic book, behind prize publications and how important they were in the romance industry because they published the first basically romance comic book series, right? And this book, The Young Love came out in 1952 and we had a read through that. And both of these comics, we picked up in the previous comic book haul, comic book haul number 24, thanks in large part to one of the people that's been following work here, Nicholas, and he really loved the comic book stuff, the comic book hauls, the comic book discussions, the comic book readings and stuff like this. So he sent some funds our way to pick up some additional comics and these are two of the comics that we ended up picking up, right? So we ended up reading through this and what we're going to do now is read through life story. And the reason I picked these was because obviously Young Love was done by Jack Kirby, right? So Jack Kirby, you got to read a love story by Jack Kirby and Simon and Kirby basically were the people behind the series, right? So it's pretty historical, important piece. Okay, now Young Love came out in 1952. This one here is the one we're going to read now. And this one came out in 1950. And I want to read through specifically one of the stories. And the reason I want to read through that is because the artwork for that story in this book is done by Wally Wood, Wallace Wood, which is also another giant in the industry, specifically doing a lot of work for EC Comics and the Golden Age of Comics. And he was sort of the founders of Mad Magazine, right? And Wally Wood basically did a lot of work aside from comic books as well. He did a lot of advertising, a lot of covers, a lot of posters, a lot of syndicated comic strips and cards and whatnot, right? And he's amazing. Wally Wood is fantastic in doing the just looking this stuff up regarding the story and regard regarding Wally Wood. I found out that he didn't really like being called Wally Wood, but everyone knows him as Wally Wood. So I hope he grew to appreciate it being called Wally Wood. And it is that is the name that I've been referring to him throughout the previous comic books that we've been doing. So maybe in this one we'll call him Wallace Wood, right? So this is the book that we're going to read and one of the one sentence basically I found that it was interesting with this and basically came from William Gaines and he was the publisher for EC Comics, the founder really of EC Comics, I believe anyway. And this is the quote that I found, I believe it was on Wiki, where he said, quoting now, Wally may have been our most troubled artist. I'm not suggesting any connection, but he may have been our most brilliant, right? And for me, the art that made me fall in love with Wallace Wood is our artwork and really cherishes work and try to get comics from him. Was the stuff that he did for sci-fi, some of the stuff he did for EC Comics and their sci-fi science fiction fantasy books was absolutely brilliant, really just mind boggling. So as soon as I saw those many, many moons ago, he became one of my favorite artists and I'm glad to have this because I don't think I have anything from Wallace Wood in regards to romance comics. And again, this book came out in 1950 and in this comic book haul that we got, and thank you Nicholas for sending the funds so we could get these comics and do readings of them and talk about the comic books and do a comic book haul, I ended up picking this comic for a steal. We got this comic book for $1 Canadian, 75 cents US. A Wallace Wood Golden Age romance comic from the 1950s published by Fawcett Comics for 75 cents US. And this is issue number 13. So let's crack this open and we'll flip through the book and have a read through Wallace Wood's story. And we might have a read through one of the other stories as well. We'll take a look at this. Let me put the paper bag on this side. And by the way, this was when I bought this, this was graded at very good minus. It was the same grade that we got for the previous issue, the young romance number 31 by Jack Kirby. But I would almost consider the Jack Kirby one as a very good, and I would consider this one as a very good minus because there's a little bit well not a little bit, a fair bit of cuts here, right? So the other one, the young love was, the cover was in a little bit better shape, but it didn't have to, this one doesn't have the chipping which the other one did. So this was, this was graded at very good minus. Okay, so let's have a flip through this first and then we'll decide what we're going to read. And there is basically one, two, three, four main stories in this book. Okay. And this one, let's check it out. It's got some credits here. Cool. Usually the golden age books didn't have too many credits. What's this? Check this out. Draw me. Try for $1,200 in prizes. Oh, in prizes so they don't give you cash. Let's check it out. Five prizes. Five prizes in this April contest. Five complete $240 art courses, including drawing outfits. Here's your big chance. If you want to become a commercial artist, designer or illustrator, an easy to try way to win free art training, find out if you have talent too. Okay, so they're going to offer drawing courses to people, right? Whether you win or not, our instructors send you their comments on your work. If your drawing shows promise, trained illustrators and artists now making big money. Find out an artist now making big money. Okay, find out now if you have profitable art talent, you have nothing to lose, everything to gain. Start your drawing drawing now. Mail it today. Cool. I think a little instructions here how to do it. And they're not asking for money. So that's cool, right? So they're genuinely looking for artists. This one is another spring. Yeah, this is supposed to be a 14 page story. So let's flip through this and then we'll read the fine print and we'll give a little bit of info on this. Let's check this out for now, though. Because in what we found out in the previous reading that we did for Young Love in the fine print, it stated that all of these were true stories, right? That people had sent in. So should we read this before we flip through just to see if they're true stories? Let's read the fine print. Okay, we'll do this in different order. Okay, life story, April 1950, volume 3, number 13, is published monthly by Fawcett Publications Incorporated, Fawcett Place, Greenwich, Connecticut, entered a second class mail, January 13, 1949, at the post office, Greenwich, Connecticut, under the Act of March 1879, additional entry at Buffalo, New York Copyright 1950 by Fawcett Publications Incorporated, trademark or Fawcett Publications Incorporated, editorial and advertising offices, 16 West 44th Street, New York, 18 New York, send remittance and letters concerning subscriptions, charge of address incorporated to circulation debut, Fawcett Publications Incorporated, Connecticut, subscription rate, 12 issues for dollar 20 in U.S. possessions and U.S. positions in Canada, foreign dollar 20 in international money order, U.S. funds printed in USA. So this doesn't say if they're true stories or not, right? But a lot of these golden age romance comics, they were sort of stories that people had sent in, right? And nothing on the cover, it says that either. Big 52 page pages, right? Another spring, that's one of the stories, bitter, bitter sweet memories, no one but you, dead end for love. These are the four stories that are in this issue, okay? Now we don't know who the artist was for the first one, another spring. Bitter sweet memories, I couldn't find anything on it either, okay? No one but you is by Wallace Wood, okay? And dead end for love is by Bob Powell, okay? And just to give you a little bit of history on Wallace Wood, in one of the comic book databases, he's credited by producing 702 issues, comic book issues, okay? And Bob Powell is credited by publishing 457 issues, working on 457 issues. And you also will probably read the Bob Powell story as well, okay? Let's look at this. Executive editor, Will Liebersen, art editor Al Letter, editor Roy Alb, associate, I guess editor, Helen Houghton. Nice artwork. Another spring, let's just read this first panel, the intro panel to this. An April shower, another spring, but what does it mean to me? Only the endless monotony of farm chores, the same care worn faces in the same small town. Let's read this, U.S. Mail. Romance is an elusive, romance is as elusive as a breath of air, the ripple in a brook or the song of a mourning bird. It is the soul of sweetness and it thrives on the loving freedom of a generous heart, but in her anxiety to have and to hold, hold Nann's possessiveness stifled love's impulse and lost her heart's desire. Heavy, eh? Nice artwork. She sees a car car, heavy rains coming in. I love the storytime panels, right? The beautiful hearts, roses, close-up of faces, discussion that kisses. I was up the next morning and the morning that followed at the first hint of dawn and new excitement and restlessness. Restlessness prompted me to activities I had avoided for some time. I couldn't wait to see Dan be reassured that his presence was more than a wishful dream. I had been hoping no praying would be the word to describe my longing for Danny's embrace. He had to feel the way I did and that kiss, that moment of blissful enchantment confessed that he did. Then as time winged its endless unheating way, my vision of happiness became just another way of saying Danny. He must be saying he needs to go, the door slams. Please mother, I don't wish to discuss it. You love the void, boy. That's fine, my dear, but if you should decide to leave, please mother, I don't wish to discuss it. Let's see what Danny says here. Hey beautiful, if I'm to be condemned to the cell, how about coming upstairs and lightning my sentence. You know, I am allowed visitors. I'm coming Danny, she says. I wish I could find the way to make it a life sentence. She wants him to stay. Look at this embrace. Beautiful. Really a book made for more mature readers. Let's read this as well. Let's read these two guys. A thousand unnamed fears clutched my heart. The bed was neatly made and the room was tidied as if by the hands of a departing guest. Then I noticed something propped up on the dresser. A letter with tremendous, tremulous hands. I unfolded the note and tried to steal my trembling. I read in the many, in the many weeks I've stayed here. I've come to love you very dearly. I had even gone so far as to plan a life together for us. But I know now that I would only be burdened to you and you folks. I have no right to chain you to an invalid and so I am leaving as ever. Danny, he was okay. He was walking around. So his injuries must have been pretty serious, right? Probably explained in the text. Mother, oh no, Danny, no, no, she says. Nan, what is it? Mother, Danny is gone. He's left for good. But he couldn't have left more than a short while ago. I heard him rummaging around in his room. She ran outside. Let's check out what this guy's saying. I must stop Danny. I must, she says. I met Danny down the road, at peace. I was coming to look in on your dad's rheumatism. The boy was all upset. He had some notion about his being sick. But I strained him out on it. Seems to kind of freeze up when I gave him my word of honor. He was all right. Nice. That's the doctor. Danny comes back. Sweet. Be like a happy love story. Danny was out. Danny knew the truth. He would know my lies and my designs to keep him from going, oh, she must have been lying to him. Telling him that it was his injuries were much worse. Oh, trickster, trickster. It almost backfired on her. I had to see him to explain how much I loved him. To plead with him to stay. I whirled away from the doctor and headed down the road until I saw his dear familiar figure. Danny, you can't go away. What have you come to tell me now that I'll never make it? That I'll collapse on the road? Do you want me to go back to the cell block of a room? Ah, so she was lying. She was lying. Oh, he's angry. Look at that. And that's how he left me standing in the road. Oh, okay. Let's read his comments. We got to read this. This is spoilers, by the way. Apologies. Pretends and outright lies. Is that what my admitted love entitled me to? Why weren't you honest with me? I wanted to marry you more than anything else in the world. But there can be no love where there is no faith. So I'm leaving that. That's like the advice we had in the previous comic we read, right? We're honesty advice from the psychologist, whoever it was, right? And that's how he left me standing in the road. No denial on my lips. No defense in my heart. I stumbled home in an agony of torment, mother and dad. A torment. Mother and dad were there to receive me as always. Mother, dad, you were so right. Why or why didn't I listen to you? Sob, which goes away. Let's read the last three. The months and seasons revolved, and I learned to live again with renewed faith. Though the hurt of Danny's absence was ever fresh in my unforgetting heart, then once again it was spring, another spring, and nostalgically I drifted back to the scene of the accident where I met Danny when I returned home later. Danny, hello Nan. I remembered it was the first day of spring. You brought me here. I have a swell job now, and I wanted to repay you all. Show you my gratitude. Your folks have told me a lot about you. Oh, so she was there talking to the parents. I've missed you, Nan. And I had hope. And I had hoped, oh, why beat about the bush? I love you. Sob, oh my darling, she says. Well, mother, everything is going to be just fine from now on. That's the father talking to the mom, right? That's a good love story. Partial heartbreak, that's for sure. Take a look at this. I saw when I was looking up this thing, I saw this and I was surprised to see it, but an exclusive interview with Gene Kelly. Take a look, and that's his picture right there. Awesome. And Gene Kelly, for those of you that don't know, he was one of the great actors from, I guess the golden age, right? 19, I don't know if he came what was around 1940s, but he must have been in 1940s because this came out in 1950, right? So I don't know if it was around 1930s, but it was around 1940s, 50s, 60s as well, I believe. And I've seen a few movies with Gene Kelly and he's fantastic. And again, this has come up a couple of times. Now, if you've never seen black and white movies, the golden age movies from that period for sure take the time to watch some of those movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Okay, there are some brilliant stories, brilliant films being told. And this is supposed to be a two-page interview. Let's read some of this. Let's read some of this. Okay. Exclusive interview with Gene Kelly. Must be done. Question. In your opinion, who is the most beautiful girl in Hollywood? Answer from Gene Kelly. The most beautiful girl in the whole world is Esther Williams. Wow, wow, wow. And that incorporates phisogenomy, incorporates phisogenomy, figure, expression, and charm. These are words. In incorporates phisogenomy, I don't know, these are words that are lost to me. Esther looks wholesome and dewy and in my opinion, represents the typical American beauty. That's cool. Of what personal habit are you trying to break yourself? Answer. I'm trying to make myself go to bed earlier at night, but it looks like a hopeless task. Question. How do you feel when doing love scenes? Answer. They aren't so different from any other deeply emotional scene you go through. There is no personal feeling involved at all. The only thing that bothers me is worrying about smearing the girl's makeup. Are you an icebox raider? It means. Answer. But the champions of the world, but the champion of the world, I make Dagwood Lake look like an amateur. Say. I wonder if it could be those pickled cheese, liver, worst peanut butter sandwiches that keep me from falling asleep at night. Icebox raider, that probably means going to the fridge at night and having midnight munchies or middle of the night munchies. That's what it is. Cool. Are you a born dancer? And Gene Kelly was an amazing dancer. Amazing dancer. Okay. I wish I were. Wow. He wasn't. I wish I were. Then I wouldn't have cost my parents so much money for dancing lessons when I was a youngster. I guess I was born with a certain talent for it because I started dancing when I was so young. I don't even remember. But I worked a good number of years to become a dancer and I do mean work. Cool. This is exactly what Richard Feynman has said in interviews and in writings and Richard Feynman is one of the best known physicists from the United States, right? Where he said he's never met a genius or savant or anything. Talent comes with hard work and Gene Kelly looks like he did a lot of hard work to dance, right? What is your favorite type of social dancing? You'll be disappointed, answer. You'll be disappointed. But here it is. The good old fashioned waltz. Wow. It's not spectacular and it doesn't require great ability like the rumba or samba, for instance. But I think it's the most lyrical of all popular dancing steps. Awesome. Do you wish you were, you were handsomer? Answer. I'll never keep Charles Boyer awake and I don't care. No one would ever have suggested me for, suggested me for Reed Butler. I have a dual average pan and that's the kind of guy I like to play on the screen. Do you like screwy hats on women? No. Don't say any man. What was your first professional appearance? Answer from Gene Kelly. Playing a nightclub engagement in Pittsburgh when I was, when I went to college there. I had to earn some money to see me through school. After I'd taken turns at concert mixing and carpentry, the bright idea flashed through my head that I might as well put to practical use all the dancing lessons I had, I'd had. How did you propose to your wife? This is awesome. Answer. I got a contract to make pictures in Hollywood and realized I didn't want to go without Betsy so I called her from Philadelphia where I was staging a show. She was then in New York and popped a $64 question. Of course, don't think she wasn't expecting me to do it. These women are always ahead of a guy. What is the unkindest remark you have heard about yourself? Answer. A columnist once lied about me over the radio and said I had left my wife and child. Wow. I wonder if Gene Kelly stayed with his wife with what's her name? Betsy. Do you talk to yourself when you're alone? Answer. Constantly. And I like almost everything, everyone. And like almost everyone else, I always think of some snappy or brilliant remark which I wish I'd said but didn't. Very cool. I like Gene Kelly even more now. Really. Let's keep on reading this. What is the chief bone of contention at home? The only one I can think of is that I never eat vegetables and Betsy is always trying to make me eat them. And question. In what way do you give into Betsy? Answer. I eat them. What performance of yours on the screen gave you the greatest thrill? Oh man. I can't wait. Answer. Doing the shadow dance with myself in cover girl. Oh my god. No one will ever know how difficult it was. Every technician on the set said it couldn't be done and I sweated plenty to prove they were wrong. I had to go to the head of the studio to get permission to do that bit in the dance where I threw a garbage can through a large pain of window glass because he thought it was too dangerous to attempt. I had to stand only about 10 feet from the glass and he was afraid the shattering glass would hurt me. I wanted very much to do that dance just as I had planned it and the greatest thrill of my life was completing it successfully. I am going to go find download this music shadow dance or get it from the library or rent it from somewhere and watch it. I remember this scene when I was many moons ago when I was a kid watching this right? I'm not the soul but it was a period where I was really into black and white movies and a lot of dance movies and stuff. There's a scene I can't remember who's Jean Kelly or who it is that does the dancing in the rain and stuff and I remember this one as well and I'm gonna try to track this down. Okay for sure for sure. What is your greatest extravagance? Buying everything in town at Christmas without figuring out where I have any particular person in mind to whom I can give it. Oops, not sure what you guys danced. Right? This one. We just read that one. Let's read the next one. Whom would you most like to resemble? Answer. At the age of 10 I wanted to look like my hero. Douglas Fairbanks. Awesome Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks senior but I'm afraid the die is cast and it's too late for me to look like anyone but myself. Who was your very first love? A mongrel dog that followed me home and stayed until he died. That is awesome. That is awesome. What don't you like about yourself on the screen? I could write a book on the subject. I literally turn green when I see myself do certain things. For example I like to get rid of my New York twig. I guess that's that accent maybe? I know what swat is. I don't know what twig is. What is your favorite food? Steak first of all and I've got a sweet tooth that's never satisfied. I can eat candy bars till dawn. I can relate to that. I can relate to that. What is your idea of a good time? Going away to a mountain retreat, having some people and books around and plenty of time to love. Awesome awesome. What in general is your philosophy of life? Do unto others that you would have them do unto you. That rule covers a multitude of actions and remember this is this is the golden rule right? We've talked about this when we did the sort of a review or talking about skin in the game by Nassin Talib right? So he's quoting the golden rule. Do unto others that you would have them do unto you. For me I like the silver rule better. I think it's more powerful what we talked about and the silver rule is don't do unto others what you do not want done unto you right? That way you're remaining passive. When you do things to others that you want done unto you you're being intrusive to a certain degree right? What do you wish you didn't have to do? Answer shave? I think it would be heaven to go without shaving for weeks. Awesome Gene Kelly you could have done it now back then I guess Beards were not in and they weren't actually there's a movie out there where I forget who the actor is. He's a comedian actor but he played some serious roles as well and he worked in a bank I believe and on his vacation he grew a beard. I forget what the movie is called. Wow if you guys know please post the comment. He grew a beard on vacation and he came back and he wouldn't shave it off and everyone was looking at him on Waco. There was a huge controversy. Okay What is your favorite costume around the house? Answer t-shirt slacks and macaustines the the nice part about not being a great lover type is that one doesn't have to live up to a reputation. I can knock about in old clothes without anyone being disillusioned. Awesome Do you like to play parlor games? I should say I do games are lots more fun for adults than for children. Indications or charades is my indications I don't know that game or charades is my favorite What was your most embarrassing moment? Answer in a high school version of Midsummer's Night's Dream as a Shakespeare play right? I played bottom and while doing the little dance I heard the chuckle goes through the audience my pants had fallen down. Oh no What pet name do you and your wife call each other? Genie and Sweeney haha nice Gene Kelly Genie and Betsy Sweeney the first because it's a affectionate form of Jean I call her Sweeney for no other reason than that it rhymes. What compliment meant most to you? Answer when Fred Astaire told me I was a great dancer wow wow wow and Fred Astaire is one of the other amazing actors from that period and considered to be basically by almost everyone that I know of the greatest dancer in film right with Gene Kelly a close second okay what is your personal recipe for making friends and influencing people okay answer I don't know I never thought about it maybe that's it I just like people and show it awesome this was amazing interview with Gene Kelly right interview with Gene Kelly an exclusive interview with Gene Kelly from a 1950 romance comics called life story issue number 13 okay that also contains art by Wallace Allen Wood Wally Wood one of the greatest comic book artists of all times in the same comic book from the golden age as one of the greatest Hollywood movie dancers of all time that is bliss and what we're gonna do is personally doing the shadow dance with myself in cover girl that's the movie we're gonna look for or I'm gonna look for okay to see what the shadow dance look like or maybe even just look it up online right I'm pretty sure it's gotta be up there it's gotta be up there sweet sweet sweet what is this one bittersweet memory and this one I don't know who the artist is for this one either okay bittersweet memory let's read the first couple of things and look at this panel awesome everybody's making a quick killing darling everybody but you and that's because you're so conservative you move so slow she says it's just that I want to make sure I know what move I want before making it my building project for those new low priced homes is coming along swell as soon as soon as I get the money we're off oh she doesn't look happy check it out she does not look happy but he made his money she says crazy I got a feeling this guy is being played maybe maybe we see we see nice artwork again old pages flip through this this is supposed to be an 11 page story so the staple is loose on the top one right so we're gonna be a lot of it careful with this one nice panel work no somebody's gone into bankruptcy I'm wondering if it's his company but the real but but the real estate goes into bankruptcy Chicago bank loan negotiates negotiated by Bruce Butler recalled grandson of founder vows to repay customers for homes that were never built let's see what she's been doing I think she's been going out looking for loans and so it went week after week month after month town after town nope nope nope nope don't know him oh maybe he's looking for someone if I could only shake this cold cough I should eat something cough but my money is getting low too low I must find him I must oh I think she's going after him trying to find him check this out so this guy I basically was the scanner help help me somebody he's a thief police police let go you crazy fool he says oh it looks like the police is aptum right pause trying desperately to gather strength to continue and then I saw the face I had carried in my heart through all those desperate days Bruce oh Bruce I catch her oh she was fainting and there's a kiss I I don't deserve you don't try to talk Sandra I know what you went through to clear me just get well darling you're the most precious thing in my life and I need you back again he says dead end for love and this is the story by Wallace Wood nice and this is the one we're going to read so we're not going to read the first panel right now okay we'll flip through this it's two looking forward to reading this beautiful kiss hopefully we won't get any spoilers on this and this is a nine page story we'll flip through it fast that way we're not gonna get any spoilers of what's going on okay now check out this one romance oddities beautiful page beautiful right romance oddities this is a one-pager I believe yeah it is this is just a one-pager should we read it let's read this to romance oddities sorry through this too so the odds are we're just gonna read the Wallace Wood let's take a look at this I don't know who did this one this one-pager right romance oddities wedding processions in rural Korea are headed by two male relatives of the bride and groom who have a yellow flag to dispel evil spirits thus ensuring a happy marriage hopefully some Korean people that are seeing this I'm not sure if that's true or not wedding ring is placed on the third finger of the left hand because it was originally believed that that finger was connected by an artery with the heart that's cool biologists out there is this the word honeymoon was derived from the fact that for one month the newly wedded couple drank a special honey drink that was supposed to ensure happiness really I'll do that let's make some honey liquor I don't think we need to be married go go through honeymoon to have it that sounds delicious look at this one according to old tradition if a maiden when hearing the cuckoo the first time in spring asks aloud cuckoo cuckoo tell me true tell me true when tell me true when shall I be married she may count the years to her wedding day by the number of times the bird cries cuckoo I don't know if this also works for men if you want to be married that is during olden day days maiden spent much of their time spinning linen for their home chest though many never married they kept on spinning and hoping thus arose the term spinster little bits of fact or fiction we don't know this one I've heard before that the artery is connected to the heart but I've never checked into it I like this one honey drink for a month sounds good this story no one but you is by Bob Powell okay on Bob Powell is also was one of the early greats in the comic book industry right he has about 457 from one of the databases I checked 457 issues to his credit okay he was active in 1930s and 40s okay he also worked on sheena queen of the jungle and mr mystic okay he also got credit later on sort of belated credit and this is stuff I've picked up from wiki for black hawk right one of the main things that he had worked on was on the bubblegum trading cards Mars attacks so those classic collector trading cards of Mars attacks that are very much collectible is Bob Powell that that the artwork for them okay I don't have that said I have to set that was released Mars attacks in the 19 I guess early 1990s including the Norris attacks comic book series right the mars attacks remake was fantastic with Tom Jones in it it was so good so good let's read this panel okay we'll have more but not today little Andy and his friends need sleep now the lady says I guess she's a teacher right ha ha ha we want more more Helen the kids are yelling Helen gloried in her work as a puppeteer by manipulating the strings she brought tears or laughter to her make believe world but when Helen tried to juggle human emotions she found herself in in meshed in life's own strings strings that taught her that the tender tenderest emotion of all love is not for human hands to toy with a lot of these love stories start off serious very serious so she's in a classroom she does the puppet shows again I guess that's her loving trust right nice page nice panel fabulous dress look at that beautiful beautiful embrace and kiss very nice see this his words let's read these guys his words were suddenly broken off and Hank swept me into his his arms I had longed for this ecstatic moment now his kiss a kiss that told me I was his his from this day on I love you Helen I felt it ever since I first met you will you marry me I love you too oh darling so very much yes I want to marry you with all my heart she says the story is not ending beautiful poses nicely done she saves a kid why did Dickie run out wildly into the street it's it's not the first time he's done it I just can't control him any longer she says you were right Helen he does need more supervision will you come over tonight we'll speak to him about the boarding school all right darling she says Dickie's her kid that very moment that very night I determined Dickie wouldn't stand in the way of my immediate marriage getting him off to boarding school was the solution and I began to act the next day maybe we save it for another day a few hours later I arrived at Hank's apartment to watch a pathetic scene as Dickie was told about boarding school but I definitely hardened my heart as I thought of my own happiness oh it's probably his kid then I'll be it'll be best for Dickie and us I'll come and visit you Dickie Helen will too you'll like it in boarding school there's a lot of boys your own age and you you'll have you'll have teams and no no I won't go soft soft I don't want to go away from you Hank I don't want to stop come on fellow you're a big boy now once you get there you'll love it screw into the bathroom and wash your face he says what's going on here he escaped jumped out the window and they go out looking for him right and someone finds him and they bring him back I guess he told her his boarding school we know now was troubling the youngster and can take corrective measures you made some amends at least I'll get I'll get right to the hospital hurry doctor hurry little puppeteer doing her thing Helen did you hear the news our next stop is Alville your old hometown Alville no she says I guess she went away oh no they looks like they were breaking up here no no no she packed her suitcase hit the road come back and I guess they meet up again and she's does the puppeteering right she's crying in the background let's read the last two panels they're coming I I don't have to run anymore ever soft soft oh darling I don't say it dear I know the doctor told me of your courage how you went to him to help Dickie will start all over again kiss me to Helen please and she was telling the story here right let's go back and read the panel where she's telling the doctor what was going on let's see let's see what the private conversation is if it has it in this panel the next morning I went to the doctor's office and confessed hating myself as I did so that's why he's acting that's why he he's acting as he is I thought if I got him off to boarding school we we could get married he wouldn't go so I did the things I've told you I'm so ashamed oh my she must have done a few things to get him Dickie to run into the street and stuff not very good and well you might be the boy things he's not wanted now you poisoned your fiancee's mind with lies to get that child out of your selfish ruthless way oh my that's not nice at all that's not nice at all right she was manipulating a little child there's a child missing here the curtain is drawn aside on the intimate drama of real life romances in these picture love story magazines that thrill and captivate exciting romances right nice romantic western and we have some of these I think sweetheart diary very nice on sales on newsstands across the nation from the pages of life of life itself true confessions oh this one I believe these ones are very sought after the stories and true confessions would hold you as you as no other stories you have ever read true confession stories are about real people written by people who live the experience they write about thrilled to true true stories of teenage love of courtship of marriage stories from the pages of life itself get your copy of true confessions today 15 cents at all newsstands so this was 50 cents true confessions more expensive than these ones that were 10 cents right very cool very cool let's go read the wally wood Wallace allen wood story of dead end for love right let's go through it dead end for love to refer to almost wally wood right bittersweet memories the story we're looking for is the one after this okay this look cool as well flipping through it lots of reading here lots of reading dead end for love here we go here we go we go life story from a 52 page special edition i guess or 52 page comic life story number 13 from 1950 faucet publications faucet comics me was indifferent to the crime breeding conditions of her neighborhood neighborhood indifferent even though they threatened to engulf her brother jackie then stan lucas tried to change her warped conception but love can't live with callous disinterest i guess this is Amy and her so Amy is one of these guys i'm assuming that one stan lucas jackie saw a gang of young hoodlums beat that boy almost to death on your block last night miss brother i want him to give me the names why should he he's not involved and there's no reason to endanger his own safety in the neighborhood by telling you who is telling you who is since my mother died two years ago and dad went into the maritime maritime service jackie had been my responsibility we lived in a tough section and to hold his own in it i had to i had taught him to mind his own business now that's amy's word i'll have to hold jackie in the custody of this court until he does speak the judge says oh no may i have a word with you alone judge brother talking to the sister that guy stan lucas says one of those do-gooder social workers down at the center i wonder what kind of trouble he's trying to stir up well whatever it is just you sit tight jackie we'll get a lawyer and fight if we have to she says right and watch the judge and stan lucas anxiety as as they came back and then bracing myself for the worse mr lucas the athletic director of the dick street youth center has asked me to parole jackie in his custody on granting his request you can thank him young man for saving you from reform school oh she says it isn't as bad as all that i'm really a nice guy when you get to know me how about giving me a chance to prove it he says the teasing undertone in his voice made me really look at him for the first time and suddenly i decided there was something about his clear-cut smiling face that i liked he's got a smile on her face now all right miss lucas mr lucas if you can stand us i guess we can stand you that's better and now that i've that we've broken the ice let's use first names i'm stan he says and i'm amy amy broder glad to know you stan how about lunch i'll bet jackie here could do justice to his stake sure but look mr don't try soft soaping me into squealing on those kids the judge was talking about because it won't work see that won't be uh squealing jackie you'd just be living up to your responsibilities as a free citizen of a free country someday you realize that meanwhile let's forget the whole thing he says no sermons no missionary work from you to two inhabitant inhabitants of the big street jungle she asks no sermon just good food and a pleasant half hour with a very pretty girl and her brother here's my car she he says big street youth center the food was good and the pleasant half hour turned into two full hours made interesting by stan's talk of his work even jackie hung on every word you mean you knew mad dog toller gee he says we grew up on the same slum street toller took the easy way out with a gun and died in the electric chair i worked my way through college went into social work and wore a sword to save as many kids as possible from his fate he says as i listened to the fury intensity of his voice i felt something stirred within me it was like a knife blade trying to cut its way through my conscience i rose abruptly sweeping aside the thought you promised not to preach she says so i did i'm sorry but it was really your fault getting me started on that subject i never do know when to stop uh when to stop come on i'll take you home he says anger face on his face soon look at those boys there are thousands of them like that kid vandalizes one day kid vandals one day gangsters the next it scares me he says they're just naturally not good look at jackie he lives in the same neighborhood yet he never steals you can stop you can drop us here stan she says they're in the car driving by as stan opened the door i began to climb out then paused the moment to look up into his face one our eyes met and we both knew he had a question to ask me and that my answer would be yes it was nice having lunch with you and jackie i'd like to do it sometime against soon sunday i'd love to stan but jackie will be at our grandparents for the day we'll have to go alone until sunday amy i don't think he's sad about that until sunday amy he is handsome she's thinking and very nice somehow i'd never figured him for social worker oh the brother is looking inside stan called for me sunday morning we drove uptown to a little restaurant where we lunched on a terrace overlooking the hudson river funny isn't it i've lived in new york all my life yet never saw the river from these bluffs it's so blue and beautiful stan you should see it just after sunset amy it's deep deep lavender then like your eyes it sparkles like they do clear and warm i'll bet you didn't learn that little speech in college she says it's not a speech amy speeches come merely from the lips but that was from my that was my heart talking we followed the road above the river stopping now and then to wash the boats below us late afternoon found us crossing the bare mountain ridge let's stop in the park stan i've never seen it oh good idea we won't have much time to explore before dark but we can go through the zoo it's fascinating he says cute little devils aren't they they're adorable oh stan look behind us love birds how sweet look how they snuggle stan do you suppose they can feel the emotions of love as humans do of course amy love is a universal feeling say we'll have to get started back now it's getting late we ate at a park cafeteria then turned homeward the rides seemed short much too short and as we stopped in front of my house it was a wonderful day stan it's opened my eyes to something wonderful so it's opened my eyes to some wonderful places in the city i've never seen i like to open your eyes even more amy enough to make you really see the street and what it's doing to the kids like your brother and even you if you could only see that he says i suppose i truck right down to your youth center well this street does to people only what they let it do jackie and i are all right and we don't need your numby punby speeches amy come on he pulled me to him his face harsh his eyes hot points of anger kissing me his love dissolved the barrier i erected against it is this numby punby is it stan oh darling sigh isn't this better than talking about other people's troubles you still don't see do you amy well someday you will but i won't say anything more except good night darling i've waved stan good night with mixed emotion loving him for the loving him for the kiss kiss but annoyed at his instant social work talk turning towards my door i saw the usual gang of boys hanging around the stationary store only this time can that be jackie i can't believe it but it is what are you doing with these boys you know they're troublemakers oh sis you've got them all wrong they've got a club the clovers they call it they asked me to join there's nothing wrong with that he says he looks like the kid that was stealing from previous page right if we flip back where is that guy oh this guy's got blonde hair this kid this kid's got the red hair so it's a different kid well i i guess not but you better come up to bed now it's late sure sis good night fellas see you tomorrow i forgot about jackie's new friends as thoughts of stan drove all else from my mind during the next weeks we saw a lot of each other then one night from this height the city doesn't look like new york but like some fairyland it could be a fairyland for us amy look at me darling i love you he says love you with my whole heart he says and i love you stan i've loved you always and so the words i'd waited waited for stan to speak were spoken but something happened to threaten my happiness stan had asked me to send jackie down to the center and had promised however several days later darling haven't i haven't seen jackie at the gym yet i thought you asked him to come he is my responsibility you know he says oh i i'm sorry stan it completely slipped my mind i'll speak to him tomorrow she says i wish you would you would i noticed him hanging around with some of the boys from the clover gang yesterday they're not for him they're not for him i don't see anything wrong with them besides i said i'd speak to him just getting a little a tense look came into stan's face and i knew i'd spoken too sharply he was hurt good night sweet will i see you tomorrow yes darling tomorrow and all tomorrows he says i'd avoided an unpleasant situation with stan but my heart re rebelled at the thought of sending jackie to the center again against his wishes that night as i stood over his sleeping form he's sleeping like an angel how ridiculous to think he could get into serious trouble stan's just a pessimist he's dealt with too many delinquents she says or she thinks for stan's sake though i should go down to the center myself and see just what he does i know i'll go tomorrow and surprise him i appeared at the center the next morning and was directed to the gym stan was referring referring a basketball game and for a moment i just stood there and watched watched then hi there i see they've got you working amy well this is a surprise did you decide to bring jackie instead of sending him he asks i didn't get a chance to ask jackie yet stan but i'm here won't i do won't i do instead i should be angry with you amy but i can't be yes you'll do wonderfully come along i'll show you around he says the center was a pleasant surprise a stan showed me around a faint understanding of what the center was trying to accomplish penetrated my mind and this is the arts and crafts room amy here children are given the opportunity to display their creative abilities scholar scholarships to the more talented helped them on the way to a profession what a wonderful idea she says to hear you say that amy i know now you'll you'll encourage jackie to join us look why not send him down tonight we're showing a travel film i know he'll be interested in i will stan i really will good but now i've got to finish referring that game tomorrow darling tomorrow sweet she says i was greatly impressed by the activities of the center and that evening over dinner over the dinner table i told jackie about them and tonight they have this film about african exploration you'd enjoy that jackie and i promised stan you'd be there oh not tonight sis i've got a heavy date with the game i'll go tomorrow he says well all right jackie but don't get into trouble she says trouble you don't know the clover says we can handle anything well i've got to go a sense of disquietude clung to me all evening then about nine my phone rang it was stan jackie didn't show up amy what's the matter nothing stan he had a date with the clovers and i didn't have the heart to say no but you have the heart to refuse me when you know how important it is for me to get him away from that gang amy you're impossible goodbye but stan i i was angry at stan and resolved to tell him tell him so the next day i retired early and fell asleep immediately after midnight the door bells rang frantically answering it i found miss amy broder yes what you better come with us miss broder your kid brother's been hurt in an automobile accident he's at mercy hospital with a slight concussion and a couple of broken ribs during the wild ride to the hospital i sat in the car as one one dead stunning stunned by the tragedy but it was only when i opened the door to jackie's room that i realized it's full uh enormity stan what happened to jackie you should know since you're responsible for it jackie and some of the clover gang hoodlums were hurt in an auto crash and amy the car was stolen yes those hoodlums took jackie into the gang after he refused to tell judge from them they were the ones who had beaten that kid almost to death he told us that before he passed out and you encouraged him not to tell you stood by while those delinquents poisoned his mind made him one of them the center wasn't good enough for him but the filthy crowded streets was yes your indifference towards your community led to your indifference towards your own brother i see you as you are amy and it's turned my love to scorn i pity you oh wow those harsh words stan stan slammed shut the door leaving me alone with the bitter realization that i had destroyed our love sob stan come back i love you darling come back sob come back i cried until there were no tears left numbness settled over me leaving me unfeeling and wooden days crept by while i hovered over jackie's bed praying for him to recover you must get well you must you must how could i have been so blind why couldn't i see what my attitude of indifference was encourage encouraging jackie to do i practically drove him into the streets i had time to think during jackie's convalescence i was it was during this period that the light of of seasoning finally broke through and told me what had to be done i'll make it up to you jackie i'll go to judge from from and tell him it's my fault if anyone's to be punished it should be me judge from listen quietly as i emptied my heart then all right miss broder i'll give you the opportunity to prove you realize your mistakes i'll i'll give both you and your brother another chance you'll never regret it judge from i promise she says there was one more thing i wanted to do i joined the driggs street youth center as a counselor and threw myself feverishly into the work stan had been transferred to another center at his own request so i knew we wouldn't meet oh their heart is mending right that's cool just to spur you on girls both the winning and the losing teams get sold those after the game they're on the referee yeah that's nice then one day several weeks later stan he walks through the door amy they told me about you i couldn't believe you were down here at the center but here you are that speaks for itself he says stan darling stan i have so much to tell you she says you needn't say anything sweet you've shown me that you've changed it's the three of us from now on darling you me and jackie the girl's smiling in the back happy endings happy endings that's cool and we read through this already right very cool that was a nice read and a gene kelly interview i can't believe they didn't put the gene kelly interview on the cover that we read right fantastic fantastic what a great read i hope you enjoyed it and nicolas thank you thank you i hope you like these reads and we got one more coming a war comic that we're gonna read from the same comic book haul that we got right fantastic fantastic what a nice comic what a nice comic i hope you enjoyed and i'll see you guys in the next video bye for now