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)
Letters	typeset

3 page text story "They Called Me Boy Hater"

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

1 page text story "Act Your Age"

Genre	Romance
Pencils	Warren Kremer
Letters	typeset
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?"

Letters

typeset

Half page filler "Movies Current Reviews"

Letters

typeset

1 page filler "Aids to Beauty"

Letters	typeset
Notes	6 black and white spot illustrations