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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published September 1949
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Marion McDermott
Notes Combination of comic book and magazine features. This is an oversize issue measuring 7.5" by 11". Credits from John Benson in http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf

Cover Details

Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
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3 page text story "They Called Me Boy Hater"

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Notes Illustrated with a full-page black and white photograph.

1 page text story "Act Your Age"

Genre Romance
Pencils Warren Kremer
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Notes One black and white spot illustration.

6 page story "A Stranger Stole My Heart"

Genre romance
Script Dana Dutch
Pencils Chuck Miller
Reprinted in Wartime Romances (St. John, 1951 series) #; in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #25; in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #5; in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) #[nn];

8 page story "I Was Tired of Being Good"

Genre romance
Script Dana Dutch
Pencils Matt Baker
Reprinted in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #18 [with title change to "I Carried Things Too Far"]

7 page story "Breaking Hearts Was My Hobby"

Genre romance
Script Dana Dutch
Pencils Matt Baker
Reprinted in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #8; in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #39 [with title changed to "I Stole Boyfriends"]

7 page story "Sailors Were My Weakness"

Genre romance
Script Dana Dutch
Reprinted in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #6; in True Love Pictorial (St. John, 1952 series) #11

Half page text article "How's Your Social Security?"

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Half page filler "Movies Current Reviews"

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1 page filler "Aids to Beauty"

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Notes 6 black and white spot illustrations