As Presidential Candidate Wintergreen had once discovered, Love was sweeping the country. On newsstands all over the U.S. last week, new-style comic books with such come-on titles as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Teen-Age Romances and Young Love were outselling all others, even the blood & thunder variety. The sexy, slick-covered romance-mongers souped-up soap operas in new wrapperswere rolling off the presses as fast as publishers could think up new names.
Love's biggest pressagent was Fawcett Publications, already a big name in the pulps (True Confessions) and adventure comics (Captain Marvel, Tom Mix)....
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