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JENNY HARRIS

Real Name: Jenny Harris

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Retail sales clerk;
   formerly high school student

Group Membership: Graduate cohort of a Plainfield high school

Affiliations: Art Kent

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: Father (name unrevealed), mother (name unrevealed)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Plainfield, USA

First Appearance: Our Love Story#8/1 (December, 1970)

Powers/Abilities: Jenny Harris is a high school graduate in a small town. A romantic at heart, she has hopes for further education but values family commitments over personal gain. She has novice retail sales skills.

Height: 5'4"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown

History:

(Our Love Story#8/1 (fb) - BTS) - Jenny Harris completed high school but declined progressing to college education elsewhere (and an eligible man to marry) like all her classmates as she had to start work to support her ill father.

(Our Love Story#8/1) - Jenny's mother consoled her at the high school graduation; Jenny's classmates were cheerful at leaving the small town to go to college but she was disappointed at staying. Her mother advised that love would find her. The next day, the High School Placement Office sent Jenny to a dress shop for a job opportunity (although she preferred a job with more opportunity to meet men). There, she met the young and handsome Art Kent, who she didn't realize was the boss until he cheerfully introduced himself. Impressed, Jenny looked forward to starting the next day, but then found him aloof. Nevertheless, he took her out to dinner to talk business. He complimented her beauty but she naively thought he was being friendly. At the end, she moved closer to kiss but he didn't reciprocate. Jenny had become smitten with Art and her heart ached. One day, as a reward for hard work, Art invited her for a swim and it suddenly led to a passionate underwater kiss. The couple soon became engaged. Later, Jenny was invited to her friends' college dance event, secretly out of sympathy, and she took Art as her date. Her friends were impressed that she was the first among them to get engaged. As Jenny kissed Art again outside, she remembered her mother's words.

 

 

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Gene Colan, Dick Ayers.

This story was later reprinted in the same series in #24.

These romance stories often had the flavor of the time in which they were written, and nothing else to tie them into Marvel's sliding timescale. As such, it's likely that the stories took place at the time of publication rather than being part of the sliding timescale.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Jenny Harris has no known connections to:

Art Kent

Art Kent was the boss of the dress shop where new high school graduate Jenny Harris was sent for placement. He was taken by her beauty and the two connected. Jenny had romantic ambitions with him, but he stayed focused on work. Eventually, he took her on a swim date and the pair kissed passionately underwater. This soon led to an engagement and Jenny took Art as her date to her friends' college dance event. Her friends found him handsome too and were impressed that she was the first of the high school grad cohort to get engaged.

 

 

 

 

--Our Love Story#8/1

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Our Love Story#8/1, cover (main image)
   p4, pan1 (headshot)
   p6, pan1-2 (underwater kiss)
   p3, pan5 (Kent)

Appearances:
Our Love Story#8/1 (December, 1970) - Stan Lee (writer & editor), Gene Colan (pencils), Dick Ayers (inks); cover art by John Buscema (pencils), John Verpoorten (inks)

First posted: 12/28/2025
Last updated: 12/28/2025

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