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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