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Issue: Teen-Age Temptations #8
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #8 of 9 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
Brand: St. JohnView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Archer St. John; Marion McDermott
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Matt Baker
Inker(s): Matt Baker?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Sonya; David Fenton; Swede Murvy
First Line: Fool's Paradise
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Pages: 1
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Fool's Paradise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Matt Baker
Inker(s): Matt Baker ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Swede Murvy; Sonya; Louis Ravoletti; Mrs. Ravoletti; David Fenton
Synopsis: Sonya’s parents, before they die, arrange to have Swede smuggle their daughter into the USA. Swede intends to use Sonya as bait for a blackmail scheme. He takes compromising photos of Sonya and David. Because she’s fallen in love with David, Sonya steals the photos and turns herself in. David takes Sonya to Canada and marries her. Someday she’ll be able to return to the USA legally as his wife.
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Pages: 9
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Tell-Tale Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Matt Baker ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Duffy
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Ann Johnson; Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Clark Adams; Tom Hancock; Phyllis Walters
Synopsis: Ann loves Clark although he’s 15 years older than her. When Clark announces his engagement to Phyllis, Ann schemes to break it up by spreading rumors. Clark finds out and Ann apologizes. She knows she has “a lot of growing up to do before I was worthy of a love like” Phyllis and Clark’s.
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Masquerade Marriage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dana Dutch
Penciller(s): Matt Baker
Inker(s): Matt Baker ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Duffy
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Pat Cooper; Jetta Lenter; Bob; Harry; Mr. Cooper; Mr. Lenter; Mrs. Cooper
Synopsis: 16-year-old Pat and Jetta hang out near waterfront taverns and pick up two factory worker boyfriends, Bob and Harry. Pat won’t go all the way with Bob unless he marries her, so he suggests they elope. Both couples get married and spend the night in a motel. Pat: “It wasn’t anything like wedding nights I’ve read about...Bob...was rough...almost brutal!” The girls discover the marriages were fake. They’re picked up by the police. Bob and Harry get 10 months in jail. Pat and Jetta have to live with their reputations: “None of the nice fellows ever ask us for a date now.”
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In Content Item: FlagRomance Without Tears #[nn] published November 2003
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Dana Dutch credited by John Benson in Romance Without Tears (Fantagraphics Books, 2003 series) #[nn]
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Correspondence Club
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Pages: 2
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The Price of Sinful Dates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dana Dutch
Penciller(s): Matt Baker ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Duffy
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Doris; Gloria; Mike; Ricky Vinton; Mabel; Catfish
Synopsis: Doris takes up with bandleader Ricky, leaving her decent boyfriend Mike behind. When Ricky has to flee due to criminal charges against him, he takes Doris with him across state lines. Doris escapes but is arrested. Her sister Gloria and Mike testify that Doris was an innocent dupe, and the charges are dropped. Mike isn’t happy, but he eventually takes Doris back.
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Disclose Notes: Dana Dutch credited by John Benson in Confessions, Romances, Secrets, and Temptations (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[nn]

On the second page of this story, there is an oblique reference to Ricky and a friend smoking marijuana. His friend says "Give me a couple of drags on that," but Ricky warns him they have "an audience" (Doris).

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