| Pin-Up Pete | |
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Real Name |
Pete |
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First Appearance |
Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #1 (August 1951) |
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Original Publisher |
Toby/Minoan |
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Created by |
Jack Sparling |
Origin[]
Pin-Up Pete was an American GI who had courted beautiful girls from Shanghai to St. Louis. By his own confession, Pete's name was synonymous with full moons, romances, sighs, and broken hearts.
The loves of a GI Casanova included:
- Cassie the Gorgeous Car Hop
- Miss Liberty
- Gertie the Flying Gazelle
- Headlock Lillian
- Taloo
- Drusilla the Driller
- Pauline the Painter
- Terry the Torch
- Queen o' Spit Ballers
- Katy
- Gussie
- Belle Casbah
- Fifi
- Leopard Lilly
- Honolulu Lulu
- Francie
- Maybelle
- Snowgirl
- Sadie
- Genievieve
- Cosette
- Gypsy Samovar
- Buenos Aires Benita
- Lillybelle
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Great Lover Romances #8
- Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #1, 3-11
- Pin-Up Pete #1
Notes[]
- Pin-Up Pete was billed as "the loves of a GI Casanova" but, much like Lover O'Leary, all it was was the title character showing his buddies a different picture of a different girl on each page and telling a (very self-serving) story about her.
At ease and out of uniform.