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Issue: Pictorial Romances #16
Publication Date: November 1952
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Issues: #16 of 21 Issues
Title:
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: 7 (6 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): Karen Svoboda; Jan Svoboda; Paula; Carl Ferguson; Art Bratten; Carol; Mr. Bailer
First Line: What's the matter, Karen?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The large illustration refers to the story "Coal Town Girl." The top drawing on the left represents "Affair with a Farm Boy" and the lower drawing on the left refers to "Too Impatient for Love!"
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Love Me... Love My Boss

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): Barry Hill; Lucille Barringer; Clay Morgan
Synopsis: Lucille and her department store co-worker Barry will be married as soon as he gets a promotion. Store manager Clay is attracted to Lucille and Barry urges her to be “nice” to Morgan and put in a good word for him. Clay gives Barry a promotion in a store elsewhere and Barry agrees to let Lucille date Clay while he’s gone. Lucille and Clay fall in love; they go to visit Barry and find him with another woman. Lucille can now love Clay freely.
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In Content Item: FlagTeen-Age Romances #45 published December 1955
as Love Me... Love My Boss [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Affair with a Farm Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Peter; Paula; Aunt Isobel; Carl Ferguson; Lola Tapperton; Henry Tapperton
Synopsis: Paula runs “around with a pretty wild crowd” then contracts pneumonia. Her parents send her to live with her aunt in the country to recuperate. Paula is bored until she and farmer Carl fall in love. Paula says she doesn’t want to live in the country and Carl refuses to leave his farm, so they break up. Paula returns to the city; Carl follows and agrees to get a job there for Paula’s sake. However, when Paula snubs his friends, Carl goes home. Paula realises Carl “is worth more than the rest of you put together!” and she heads for the farm.
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In Content Item: FlagTeen-Age Romances #45 published December 1955
as Farm Boy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title in reprint: "Farm Boy"
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Too Impatient for Love!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Matt Baker
Inker(s): Tal?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Art Bratten; Carol; Helen; Frank; Mary Flint
Synopsis: Carol and Art are in love, but he wants to finish college before marrying her. Carol’s friend Helen says Art may find someone else while he’s away and advises Carol to “trap” Art into marriage. While they’re in the countryside, Carol slashes the car’s tires and she and Art have to spend the night together, waiting. Carol says they have to get engaged to prevent gossip. Art agrees. Carol later confesses the truth and he says he knew it all the time, but doesn’t care.
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Pages: 5
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Quips and Queries

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joke page with 3 spot illustrations
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Fun Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joke page with 4 spot illustrations
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Coal Town Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dana Dutch
Penciller(s): Matt Baker
Inker(s): Matt Baker ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Karen Svoboda; Jan Svoboda; Jeff Young
Synopsis: Karen and her father live in Coalville and she hates it. She takes the bus to the nearby city and meets Jeff, concealing her origins from him. They plan to marry, and Karen decides to confess everything to Jeff and introduce him to her father. When they arrive, they learn there has been a cave-in at the mine and Karen’s father is trapped. He and the other men are rescued. Jeff says he doesn’t care about Karen’s background: “I’ll be glad to have a coal town girl for a wife.”
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In Content Item: FlagTeen-Age Romances #45 published December 1955
as Coal Town Girl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRomance Without Tears #[nn] published November 2003
as Coal Town Girl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5

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