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Title: WARTIME ROMANCES No. 18
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Publisher:St. John [Indicia: St. John Publishing Co.]
Date Published: November, 1953
Description:

Good+ (2.5). Spine stress, 1/4" split at top spine, 1" split with tiny chip to bottom spine, top staple pulled with cover barely hanging on, inside cover reinforced with tape at top staple, no bottom staple as issued (there are no bottom staple holes to cover or pages), center crease to covers and pages, edge nicks and a few small chips to covers, bottom right corner of front cover creased. Off-white pages. Cover: Matt Baker. Art: Matt Baker (7 pages), Arthur Peddy, Edd Ashe, Bill Molno. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded sale is a 4.0 that sold for $420 in August 2020.

In Matt Baker's "My Secret Guilt," a newly-married Army wife secretly wishes she weren't expecting a baby due to her family's precarious finances and her desire to maintain her tidy figure. Soon, she starts dating a guy during her hubby's deployment, and one day she gets into a car accident while speeding with her drunk-driving lover. She miscarries, and crippling guilt transforms her into a model '50s housewife. As the story ends, she gets pregnant again, hoping that "motherhood will help me to erase the dark memory of my sin."

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