Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	September 1949
Frequency	bimonthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Notes	This is an oversize issue measuring 7.5" by 11". It combines comic book and magazine features.

Cover Details

Pencils	Willinger (photograph)
Inks	Willinger (photograph)
Colors	Willinger (photograph)

6 page story "Come-On Girl"

Genre	romance; crime
Pencils	A. F. Sogio (photographs)
Inks	A. F. Sogio (photographs)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Fumetti-style story using black and white photographs. Warren Kremer did the layout and lettering of the feature's title page

10 page story "I Was a Hollywood Cinderella"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Matt Baker
Inks	Matt Baker?

9 page story "My One Little Mistake"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Matt Baker
Inks	Matt Baker?
Reprinted	in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #13 (August 1952); in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #30 (September 1955)

3 page story "Love is Born"

Genre	romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Pencils	Matt Baker
Inks	Matt Baker?
Letters	typeset
Notes	Story told in captions, without word balloons. Dana Dutch credited by John Benson in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics Books, 2003 series) #[nn]
Reprinted	in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #13 (August 1952); in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #30 (September 1955); in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics Books, 2003 series) #[nn]

7 page story "Rival in Love"

Genre

romance

Half page filler "Platter Chatter"

Script	Mannie Greenfield
Letters	typeset
Notes	Brief record reviews.

Half page text article "Brushes to Beauty"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Fashion advice