Showing posts with label Teen-Age Romances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teen-Age Romances. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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!

Next Week:
We Don't Yet Know What Story We'll Present, But We Guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A Month of Matt Baker TEEN-AGE ROMANCES "They Called Me a Wayward Girl"

Sometimes a "Bad Girl" is Just a Mis-directed "Good Girl"...

...who just needs a chance!







Scripted by Dana Dutch and illustrated by Matt Baker, fresh off his tenure at Fox Comics where he illustrated scantly-clad heroines like Phantom Lady and Rulah, the two teamed-up in this premiere issue of St John's Teen-Age Romances (1949), beginning a run that matched Simon & Kirby's genre ground-breaking romance books for Prize Comics in storytelling and sales!

Next Week:
We Don't Yet Know Which Matt Baker Story We'll Present, But We Guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor!
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Visit Amazon and Order...