Crime Reporter #1 is a classic late-1940s crime comic featuring a villain named Dr. Morphine and an exclusive spot called Zombie Club.
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Cinderella Love #26 contains the inspiration for both that issue's Matt Baker cover as well as his iconic issue #25 cover.
St. John's Abbott and Costello Comics featured artwork by the legendary Lily Renée and well-written stories by John Graham.
St. John published its own Reform School Girl just a year after the notorious Avon version, launching its Teen-Age Temptations romance title.
St. John launched men's magazine Nugget shortly after publisher Archer St. John's death in 1955. The debut issue included Matt Baker artwork.
The cover of Cinderella Love #25 is one Matt Baker's most famous covers, and its inspiration in a 1947 Liberty Magazine has a story to tell.
St. John Publications' Authentic Police Cases helped give Matt Baker his start at that publisher, but then it disappeared... for awhile.
St. John's True Love Pictorial #11 from 1954 is the last issue of the series, but it features an absolutely scorching Matt Baker romance cover.
Authentic Police Cases #3 features a stand-out cover by Matt Baker, and a tale of bootlegging gone wrong called "Mountain Dew Murder."
Matt Baker's cover for Cinderella Love #29 ends that romance series on a high note, and his part of his stand-out cover run on the title.
Matt Baker covers always have a story to tell, but the cover of Giant Comics Editions #15 contains a complete romance story arc.
The strange case of St. John's Blue Ribbon Comics, and what it has to do with Matt Baker. With special guest star, Nike's Phil Knight.
Was comic publisher Archer St. John's approach to Authentic Police Cases influenced by his 1925 abduction by notorious gangster Al Capone?
The St. John title Crime Reporter, best known for its Matt Baker covers, was a reboot of sorts of the Jane Arden, Crime Reporter series.
Comic Strip character Jane Arden may have influenced Lois Lane and more, but the St. John title arguably changed the course of that publisher's history.
Frank Thorne, best known for his work on the comic book character Red Sonja, began his comics career pencilling romance comics.
The St. John titles Nightmare and Amazing Ghost Stories feature rare examples of Matt Baker comic book horror covers.
Secrets of True Love is the very last Romance comic book released by St. John Publications, and is part of an interesting Matt Baker mystery.
In 1949, Fawcett launched a lawsuit that ultimately forced St. John to rename its titles Hollywood Confessions and Pictorial Confessions.
What's the secret behind Matt Baker's cover for Secrets of True Love 1 from St. John Publications? The death of Archer St. John set it motion
St. John's All-Picture All-True Love Story #2 with Matt Baker artwork is so elusive that nobody knew about it for 30 years.
The history suggests that Matt Baker was brought in to cover St. John's Amazing Ghost Stories to provide it with a very different look.
When you think of comic book romance, you think of this. Giant Comics Editions #12 Diary Secrets is one of comics history's most iconic covers