Digital Comic Museum - Teen-Age Temptations 008


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Issue: #8
Published: June 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Archer St. John; Marion McDermott
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format:

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Matt Baker \| Inks: Matt Baker?
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Sonya David Fenton Swede Murvy

Comic Story (9 pages)	Fool's Paradise
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Matt Baker \| Inks: Matt Baker ?
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Swede Murvy Sonya Louis Ravoletti Mrs. Ravoletti David Fenton

Comic Story (5 pages)	Tell-Tale Love
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Matt Baker ? \| Letters: John Duffy
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Ann Johnson Mr. Johnson Mrs. Johnson Clark Adams Tom Hancock Phyllis Walters

Comic Story (9 pages)	Masquerade Marriage
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.”
Credits:	Script: Dana Dutch \| Pencils: Matt Baker \| Inks: Matt Baker ? \| Letters: John Duffy
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Pat Cooper Jetta Lenter Bob Harry Mr. Cooper Mr. Lenter Mrs. Cooper

Letters Page (2 pages)
Featuring:	Correspondence Club
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Price of Sinful Dates
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.
Credits:	Script: Dana Dutch \| Pencils: Matt Baker ? \| Letters: John Duffy
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Doris Gloria Mike Ricky Vinton Mabel Catfish

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