Wartime Romances #1

(July 1951)

More Luck Than I Deserved (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Dana Dutch

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

romance; war

Reprints:

• in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #34 (November 1953)

Indexer Notes

Inside front and inside back cover. Writer Id by John Benson from the St. John Romance Comics Checklist at http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads.

Lovelife of an Army Nurse (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Matt Baker

Inks:

Ray Osrin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

romance; war

Reprints:

• in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #25 (September 1954)
• in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #3 (May 1989) [black and white]
• in Teen Angst: A Treasury of '50s Romance (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)

I Tried to Burn the Candle at Both Ends! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Dana Dutch

Pencils:

Matt Baker

Inks:

Matt Baker?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

romance; war

Reprints:

• from Blue Ribbon Comics (St. John, 1949 series) #4 (June 1949)

Indexer Notes

Original title: "I Should Have Played Hard-to-Get"

I Learned the Secret of Love (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6.5 pages (report information)

Script:

Dana Dutch

Pencils:

Chuck Miller

Inks:

Chuck Miller

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

romance; war

Synopsis:

Sally takes a chance when she dumps her boring boyfriend Clark for Frank, a sailor, but in spite of everyone else's misgivings, things work out for her.

Reprints:

• from Teen-Age Diary Secrets (St. John, 1949 series) #4 (September 1949)

Indexer Notes

Original title: "A Stranger Stole My Heart"

Art on this story previously credited here incorrectly to Matt Baker.

Make-Believe Marriage (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Matt Baker

Inks:

Ray Osrin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

romance; war

Synopsis:

Leslie pretends to be a married woman to get a job as a governess, but then she falls in love with her employer's nephew.

Reprints:

• in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #25 (September 1954)
• in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #4 (July 1989) [black and white]
• in Teen Angst: A Treasury of '50s Romance (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)

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advertisement / 1.5 pages (report information)