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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published August 1949
Frequency bimonthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Marion McDermott
Notes This is an oversize issue measuring 7.5" by 11". It combines comic book and magazine features.

Cover Details

Pencils Shostal (photograph)
Inks Shostal (photograph)
Colors Shostal (photograph)

3 page text story "Moonlight Escapade"

Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated with full-page black and white photograph and a small spot illo.

4 page text story "Never Gamble on a Lie"

Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated with a full-page black and white photograph.

2 page filler "You're What the Boys Like"

Letters typeset
Notes Fashion page illustrated with black and white photographs and a background drawing.

2 page text article "Does Necking Increase a Girl's Popularity?"

Pencils Warren Kremer
Letters typeset; Warren Kremer
Notes One full-page black and white illustration. The feature logo and the two faces are by Warren Kremer.

2 page text article "Hollywood Pin-Ups - Peter Lawford"

Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes 4 black and white photographs.

7 page story "They Called Me a Love Thief"

Genre romance

4 page text story "Pleasure Boat"

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Notes 3 color illustrations

1 page Mopsy filler "Beside the regular sales tax, there's an amusement tax on that model!"

Genre humor
Script Gladys Parker?
Pencils Gladys Parker?
Inks Gladys Parker?
Notes 3 single-panel gag cartoons

4 page text story "Phony Love Affair"

Pencils Matt Baker
Inks Matt Baker?
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Notes Montage of 4 illustrations on double-page title spread, plus one more illo on third page.

10 page story "I Couldn't Give Up My Secret Love"

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)

1 page text story "I'll Not Date in August"

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Notes Black and white illo.

1 page filler "Short Cuts to Glamour"

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Notes Fashion advice, with 5 black and white spot illos.

Half page filler "Platter Chatter"

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Notes Brief record reviews, with black and white header illo.

Half page text story "Step Out, Please"

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Notes One black and white spot illo.

Half page filler "Movie Previews"

Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Letters typeset
Notes 2 black and white photographs.