Diary Secrets
#20
(September 1953)
St. John,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-07-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- St. John Publishing Company
- Brand
-
St. John
- Editing
- Archer St. John (editor)
Issue Notes
Stories are all reprints in this issue.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1953, page 225, registration number B426704.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1953, page 225, registration number B426704.
Ring Around My Heart
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Warren King (signed)
- Inks
- Warren King (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- romance
- Reprints
-
from Blue Ribbon Comics (St. John, 1949 series) #2 (April 1949) -
in Lonely Heart Library (Frew Publications, 1955 ? series) #23 ([1957])
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Jealousy Taught Me to Love."
My Stand-in for Love
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My name is Rita Stewart...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Rita Stewart; Sam Bishop; N.G. Stellar
- Synopsis
- Orphan Rita wants to become an actress for “fame and money.” After freezing during an amateur contest, she thinks boyfriend Sam is mocking her. Working as a carhop, Rita pretends to faint and gets a screen test but the producer says he doesn’t believe she really wants to be an actress. Sam finds Rita and says “being a wife is a career in itself!” Sam and Rita will wed.
- Reprints
- from Hollywood Confessions (St. John, 1949 series) #1 (October 1949) [with one page cut and panels extended at top and bottom to change page shape]
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Love Came Second." Story credit by John Benson in the St. John Romance Comics Checklist.
[no title indexed]
Comedy Column / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Joke page with illustrated border
[no title indexed]
Gag-Bag / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Joke page with illustrated border
The Face of an Angel
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Kindness, warmth, and understanding...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Jon Koslo; C.B. Mille; Percy Westover; Vivian; Sue; Gina Kenny; Dr. Kerr; Mr. Flemming
- Synopsis
- Jon has been mocked for his unattractive face since childhood. He becomes an engineer but is “discovered” by a film producer and is hired as a screen villain. Actress Gina is kind to him, and when Jon is badly burned saving others in a studio fire, she visits him in the hospital. Plastic surgery makes him handsome, and Gina is rewarded for her devotion.
- Reprints
- from Hollywood Confessions (St. John, 1949 series) #1 (October 1949) [with panels extended at top and bottom to change page shape]
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Too Ugly to Love." Credits by John Benson in the St. John Romance Comics Checklist.
Some of the character names are parodies of actual people in the film industry: C.B. Mille (Cecil B. DeMille), Percy Westover (Perc Westmore), Mr. Flemming (Victor Fleming).
My Boomerang Lies
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't be so sure...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Georgia Thurman; Carl; Susan Chambers; Thelma; Wilbur Burns
- Reprints
- from Pictorial Confessions (St. John, 1949 series) #2 (October 1949)
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "What Happens to Love When Lies Come True?" Credit by John Benson in the St. John Romance Comics Checklist.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Ring Around My Heart
-
2.
My Stand-in for Love
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Comedy Column -
4.
[no title indexed]
Gag-Bag -
5.
The Face of an Angel
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6.
My Boomerang Lies
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Bill Devine
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Dan Kurdilla
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
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