Teen-Age Romances
Young Romance | |
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Teen-Age Romances #1 (Jan. 1949) Cover art by penciler Matt Baker | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | St. John Publications |
Schedule | Quarterly |
Publication date | 1949 - 1955 |
Number of issues | 45 (#1-#45) |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | various, including Dana Dutch |
Penciller(s) | various, including Matt Baker, Lily Renée |
Teen-Age Romances was an American romance comic series produced by St. John Publications. Each issue was a series of one-shot stories involving a wide cast of characters. The first three issues began with a standard format of five stories each, and then it branched out to various larger numbers.
Publication history
Teen-Age Romances, one of a late-1940s spate of romance comics,[1] ran 45 issues, cover-dated January 1949 to December 1955.[2] Released by St. John Publications, with at least two issues published under that publisher's Approved Comics imprint,[2] it included among its artists Lily Renée and Matt Baker. Many stories were written by Dana Dutch.
Issues #4-8 (Aug. 1949 - Feb. 1950) carried photographic covers, and issues #26-30 (Nov. 1952 - March 1953) used painted covers, rather than standard penciled-and-inked drawn covers.[2]
Stories
The titles of the various stories include:
1949
- January (Too Young for Love?)
- They Called Me a Wayward Girl
- Too Many Dates Were My Downfall
- Was I Too Young for Love?
- I Played Hide and Seek with Love
- I Spelled Ki$$e$ the Wrong Way
- April (no title)
- I Dared to Kiss and Tell
- We Couldn't Be Kept Apart
- They Made Me a Cinderella
- How Could I Fight Temptation?
- I Took the Wrong Road to Romance
- July (I Was Afraid to Fall in Love)
- I Didn't Want a Stepfather
- I Was Afraid to Fall in Love
- Did I Give My Love Too Freely?
- Stand-In for Scandal
- Spitework Was My Folly
- August (I couldn't give up my SECRET LOVE)
- Moonlight Escapade
- Never Gamble on a Lie
- You're What the Boys Like
- Does Necking Increase a Girl's Popularity?
- Hollywood Pin-Ups - Peter Lawford
- They Called Me a Love Thief
- Pleasure Boat
- Mopsy ["Beside the regular sales tax, there's an amusement tax on that model!"]
- Phony Love Affair
- I Couldn't Give Up My Secret Love
- I'll Not Date in August
- Short Cuts to Glamour
- Platter Chatter
- Step Out, Please!
- Movie Previews
- September (I was a HOLLYWOOD CINDERELLA)
- Come-On Girl
- I Was a Hollywood Cinderella
- My One Little Mistake
- Love Is Born
- Rival in Love
- Platter Chatter
- Brushes to Beauty
- October (I was Caught Stealing Kisses)
- Flame of Youth
- It Doesn't Pay to Steal Kisses
- Rx for a Broken Heart
- Was I a Fool to Go On Loving Him?
- I Lived a Lie
- Was I Really a Bad Girl?
- November (I RAN AWAY FROM HOME)
- I Ran Away from Home
- Reputation at Stake
- Suspicion Nearly Killed My Love
- The Love Bargain I Couldn't Keep
References
- ↑ Goulart, Ron (2001). Great American Comic Books. Publications International, Ltd. pp. 161,169–172. ISBN 0-7853-5590-1.
- 1 2 3 Teen-Age Romances at the Grand Comics Database