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Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	June 1949
Frequency	bimonthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Notes	Cover title is "Teen-Age Diary Secrets". Indicia title is "Diary Secrets (Blue Ribbon Comics)". Credits from John Benson in http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf

Cover Details

Pencils	Matt Baker
Inks	Matt Baker?

8 page story "I Set a Trap for a Wolf"

Genre	romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Pencils	Matt Baker
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #7 [title changed to "I Tempted the Wrong Boy"]; in Teen-Age Temptations (St. John, 1952 series) #9 [also as "I Tempted the Wrong Boy"]; in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #2 [also as "I Tempted the Wrong Boy"]; in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics Books, 2003 series) #[nn]

8 page story "Big City Glamour Led Me Astray"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Chuck Miller (signed)
Inks	Chuck Miller (signed)
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #8 [with title changed to "Weekend Escapade"]; in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #39 [with title changed to "Weekend Escapade"]

7 page story "I Should Have Played Hard-to-Get"

Genre	romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Pencils	Matt Baker
Reprinted	in Wartime Romances (St. John, 1951 series) #1; in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #25; in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #3

1 page text story "Was I His Second Choice?"

Genre	Romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #5

4 page story "Everyone Said I Was Wild"

Genre	romance
Script	Dana Dutch

1 page letters page "True Diary Secrets"

Script	Dana Dutch
Letters	typeset
Notes	'Confession' letters from readers, published anonymously.