Digital Comic Museum - Hollywood Confessions 01 (Kubert) -JVJ


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The St. John Romance Comics Checklist list credits as
Love Came Second Kubert art, written by Kubert according to Kubert
Too Ugly to Love Giunta/Kubert, written by Robert Bernstein according to Kubert

Issue: #1
Published: October 1949, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Archer St. John; Marion McDermott
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Joe Kubert (signed) \| Inks: Joe Kubert (signed)
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (11 pages)	Love Came Second
Synopsis:	Orphan Rita wants to become an actress for “fame and money.” After freezing during an amateur contest, she thinks boyfriend Sam is mocking her. Working as a carhop, Rita pretends to faint and gets a screen test but the producer says he doesn’t believe she really wants to be an actress. Sam finds Rita and says “being a wife is a career in itself!” Sam and Rita will wed.
Credits:	Script: Joe Kubert \| Pencils: Joe Kubert \| Inks: Joe Kubert
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Rita Stewart Sam Bishop N.G. Stellar

Comic Story (7 pages)	Too Ugly to Love!
Synopsis:	Jon has been mocked for his unattractive face since childhood. He becomes an engineer but is “discovered” by a film producer and is hired as a screen villain. Actress Gina is kind to him, and when Jon is badly burned saving others in a studio fire, she visits him in the hospital. Plastic surgery makes him handsome, and Gina is rewarded for her devotion.
Credits:	Script: Robert Bernstein \| Pencils: John Giunta \| Inks: Joe Kubert
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Jon Koslo C.B. Mille Percy Westover Vivian Sue Gina Kenny Dr. Kerr Mr. Flemming

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Synopsis:	Letter from 'The Editors' to readers requesting submission of true stories, with ten dollar prize offered for stories selected for adaptation.
Credits:	Pencils: Joe Kubert \| Inks: Joe Kubert

Text Story (2 pages)	My Heart Was Blind to Love
Credits:	Script: Dana Dutch \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (8 pages)	I Loved and Lost!
Synopsis:	Jed is frustrated because his fiancée Janet insists on becoming a movie star before she’ll marry him. When Janet gets a big role and has to spend time with costar Gene, Jed breaks up with her. Janet finally becomes a star but at her moment of triumph discovers Jed—-whom she still loves—-is going to marry someone else.
Credits:	Script: Robert Bernstein \| Pencils: Hy Rosen; Joe Kubert (signed) [as Hy + Joe] \| Inks: Hy Rosen; Joe Kubert (signed) [as Hy + Joe]
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Jed Burnley Janet Morgan Mr. Gregor Tex Ludwig Maher Mr. Lane Gene Tyrone Lucille Dexter

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