Pictorial Confessions #4
Young's Merchandising Company
Australia.
- Published
- July 1952
- Page count
- 32
- Cover price
- 1/- [0-1-0 AUP]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size (195mm x 275mm)
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
-
None
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/922993
Credits
- Art
- Jayar Studios, artist [credited]
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
Cover, 1 page
"Could this be the man? The knight in shining armour who would carry her off into the night…"
Featuring
- Genre
- Romance
Credits
- Art
- , painter
- Text
- , letterer
1Credits
- Art
- , photographer
- Text
- , typeset
Reprint history
- Compare
- Fernando Lamas (1942–1981) (1952)
- Fernando Lamas (1942-1981) [Pictorial Confessions #4] (1952?)
Notes
This image is suggested at stock photo supplier alamy.com as a publicity portrait from 1952.
2Featuring
- Genre
- Romance
- Characters
- Dr. Lee Byrd; Laura Haines; Mr. Lemming; William; Mr. Byrd; Mrs. Byrd; Polly Byrd; Ben Craig; Jupe Leslie; Jess Leslie; Mrs. Leslie
Credits
Reprint history
- First print
-
Romantic Confessions (Hillman, 1949 series) v1#5 (February 1950) — They'll Never Destroy Our Love
Synopsis
Laura becomes a nurse and returns to her small Kentucky town as the assistant to Dr. Lee. They are in love but Laura comes from a poor family and Lee's family is wealthy and snobbish, especially his sister Polly. Polly makes it appear Laura was unfaithful and says Lee doesn't want to see her anymore. Laura dates Ben, Polly's boyfriend, in revenge. However, Lee turns up and says he knew nothing of Polly's plot. Lee and Laura wed.
3Featuring
- Characters
- Steve Danton; Tom Shaw; Ellen Lindsey; Pam Cotter; Mrs. Lindsey
Credits
Reprint history
- First print
-
Romantic Confessions (Hillman, 1949 series) v1#5 (February 1950) — They All Felt Sorry for Me
Synopsis
Steve and Ellen are engaged, but his small gas station doesn't earn enough to support them. He has a criminal record and can't find another job. Ellen wants Steve to ask her ex-boyfriend Tom for a job but Steve refuses and they break up. Tom's fiancee Pam accuses Ellen of trying to steal Tom back. Ellen and Steve meet Pam and Tom on the street and Steve punches Tom. Tom admits he and the other townspeople didn't give Steve a fair shake because of his past, but he now offers Steve a good job at his factory. Steve accepts and now he and Ellen can wed.
4Featuring
- Genre
- Romance
- Characters
- Grandfather Slater; John Evers; Caroline Slater; Rita Johnson; Aaron Raymond
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
When her grandfather dies and leaves everything to the handsome son of his chauffer, Caroline understands his message.
5Featuring
- Genre
- Romance
- Characters
- Walter "Walt" Carlton; Katherine "Kathy" Shaw; Paula; Mr. Franke
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Text
- Ben Oda, letterer
- , typeset
- Editing
- Ed Cronin, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Romantic Confessions (Hillman, 1949 series) v1#7 (April 1950) — Day of My Awakening
- Also printed
-
Intimate Confessions (Barmor, 1955? series) #5 ([March 1955?]) — Day of My Awakening
Synopsis
Kathy and Walt are engaged but he quits his job at a brokerage firm because he wants to be an artist. Kathy goes along with his plan even though it means their marriage has to be postponed. Walt is a failure as an artist and Kathy catches him in an embrace with her best friend Paula. Paula tells Kathy she just wanted to prove that Walt was a loser who is ruining Kathy’s life; they walk out, leaving Walt alone.
Notes
Two-thirds of page seven and one-third of page eight have been edited from this story to reduce the page count from ten pages.
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Notes
Stories in this issue have some grey shading added to the stories in place of colour.
Indicia
Drawn in Australia by Jayar Studios and printed by Herald Gravure Pty. Ltd., Mentmore Avenue, Rosebery, for the Publishers, Young's Merchandising Company, 8 Sprint St., Sydney. Contents copyright. All rights reserved. Distributed throughout Australia by Gordon & Gotch (A/sia) Ltd. All names used throughout are fictitious and do not refer to any living person.