A Month of Matt Baker TEEN-AGE ROMANCES "How Could I Fight Temptation?" / DIARY SECRETS "Temptation Was My Weakness"

Our Final Entry in A Month of Matt Baker...

...is an almost-stereotypical comic book love story, but told with finesse and style..with one weird aspect!

Can you tell what it is?

 

Published in St John's Teen-Age Romances #2 (1949), this story, written by Dana Dutch, penciled by Matt Baker and inked either by himself or by Ray Osrin hits all the classic elements of the genre.

The weird part is that the students are all drawn like college-age kids, but it's clearly set in high school!
When it was reprinted in St John's Diary Secrets #19 (1953), the title was changed...

...but nothing else in text or art was altered!

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DIARY SECRETS "Breaking All the Rules"

Last week, we visited the socially-relevant '70s...

We now travel even further back, to the frantic '50s, for this tale of a small-town girl with big city desires...

Don't you just love a happy ending?
The art is by legendary glamour / good girl artist Matt Baker who did a lot of romance and super-heroine work.

BTW, the original title was "Rx for a Broken Heart", but I think this one works better.

I used the reprint because the original version wasn't the cover feature in the issue it was printed in.

My policy is to show stories that were cover-featured so I have a preview image for the "next week" blurb (and the title was the only thing that was altered).

Speaking of which...

Next week, we bounce forward a decade to the psychedelic '60s with the titillating tale "She's the Hippest Girl in the World"...

You'll cry your eyes out if you miss it!

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