(November 1952)
St. John,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- St. John Publishing Company
- Brand
-
St. John
- Editing
- Archer St. John; Marion McDermott
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's the matter, Karen?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Karen Svoboda; Jan Svoboda; Paula; Carl Ferguson; Art Bratten; Carol; Mr. Bailer
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The large illustration refers to the story "Coal Town Girl." The top drawing on the left represents "Affair with a Farm Boy" and the lower drawing on the left refers to "Too Impatient for Love!"
Love Me... Love My Boss
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Barry Hill; Lucille Barringer; Clay Morgan
- Synopsis
- Lucille and her department store co-worker Barry will be married as soon as he gets a promotion. Store manager Clay is attracted to Lucille and Barry urges her to be “nice” to Morgan and put in a good word for him. Clay gives Barry a promotion in a store elsewhere and Barry agrees to let Lucille date Clay while he’s gone. Lucille and Clay fall in love; they go to visit Barry and find him with another woman. Lucille can now love Clay freely.
- Reprints
-
in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #45 (December 1955) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1883 - A Matt Baker Romance Treasury: Volume 3 ([April] 2018)
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Affair with a Farm Boy
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Peter; Paula; Aunt Isobel; Carl Ferguson; Lola Tapperton; Henry Tapperton
- Synopsis
- Paula runs “around with a pretty wild crowd” then contracts pneumonia. Her parents send her to live with her aunt in the country to recuperate. Paula is bored until she and farmer Carl fall in love. Paula says she doesn’t want to live in the country and Carl refuses to leave his farm, so they break up. Paula returns to the city; Carl follows and agrees to get a job there for Paula’s sake. However, when Paula snubs his friends, Carl goes home. Paula realizes Carl “is worth more than the rest of you put together!” and she heads for the farm.
- Reprints
- in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #45 (December 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Title in reprint: "Farm Boy"
Too Impatient for Love!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Art Bratten; Carol; Helen; Frank; Mary Flint
- Synopsis
- Carol and Art are in love, but he wants to finish college before marrying her. Carol’s friend Helen says Art may find someone else while he’s away and advises Carol to “trap” Art into marriage. While they’re in the countryside, Carol slashes the car’s tires and she and Art have to spend the night together, waiting. Carol says they have to get engaged to prevent gossip. Art agrees. Carol later confesses the truth and he says he knew it all the time, but doesn’t care.
- Reprints
Coal Town Girl
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Karen Svoboda; Jan Svoboda; Jeff Young
- Synopsis
- Karen and her father live in Coalville and she hates it. She takes the bus to the nearby city and meets Jeff, concealing her origins from him. They plan to marry, and Karen decides to confess everything to Jeff and introduce him to her father. When they arrive, they learn there has been a cave-in at the mine and Karen’s father is trapped. He and the other men are rescued. Jeff says he doesn’t care about Karen’s background: “I’ll be glad to have a coal town girl for a wife.”
- Reprints
- in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #45 (December 1955)
- in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (November 2003)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1883 - A Matt Baker Romance Treasury: Volume 3 ([April] 2018)
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- Keywords
- coal mine
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["What's the matter, Karen?"]
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1.
Love Me... Love My Boss
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2.
Affair with a Farm Boy
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3.
Too Impatient for Love!
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4.
Quips and Queries
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5.
Fun Time
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6.
Coal Town Girl
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Dan Kurdilla
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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