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Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	August 1949
Frequency	bimonthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Notes	Cover title is "Teen-Age Diary Secrets". Indicia title is "Diary Secrets (Blue Ribbon Comics)". Credits from John Benson in http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf

Cover Details

Pencils	? (photograph)
Inks	? (photograph)
Colors	? (photograph)

8 page story "I Tried to Make Love Pay Dividends"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Matt Baker
Reprinted	in Teen-Age Romances (St. John, 1949 series) #17

7 page story "I Was a Broadway Casualty"

Genre	romance
Pencils	Matt Baker
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #6; in True Love Pictorial (St. John, 1952 series) #11

7 page story "I Fell in Love with My Boss"

Genre	romance
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #7 [title changed to "Office Romances Are Bad Business"]; in Teen-Age Temptations (St. John, 1952 series) #9 [also as "Office Romances Are Bad Business"]; in Torrid Affairs (Malibu, 1988 series) #2 [also as "Office Romances Are Bad Business"]

1 page text story "Two Loves Too Many"

Genre	Romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #30

4 page story "They Called Me Boy-Crazy"

Genre	romance
Script	Dana Dutch
Pencils	Warren King (signed)
Inks	Warren King (signed)
Reprinted	in Pictorial Romances (St. John, 1950 series) #6; in True Love Pictorial (St. John, 1952 series) #11; in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics Books, 2003 series) #[nn]

1 page letters page "True Diary Secrets"

Genre	Romance
Letters	typeset
Notes	'Confession' letters from readers, signed with initials only.
Reprinted	in Diary Secrets (St. John, 1952 series) #30