Number 1678: A good girl in bad company

Sally Gant is a decent gal who made a bad mistake. She tried to cover for her brother who shot a cop. Tsk tsk. Sally should know that shooting a cop is a bad rap and she would end up in the joint. Apparently Sally has a kindly jail matron who warns her of “tough” females. That doesn’t stop Sally from going to her bunk bare (okay, so her arms and shoulders are bare. I am letting my imagination run away with me). Anyway, after getting out of jail and being shunned by her slovenly father, Sally gets with Irma, one of those tough girls she was warned about by the matron (who, by the way, thinks Sally is a “sweet girl.” I am always reading things into these types of situations, I know, and it is true I have seen a lot of women in prison movies). Irma also kicks Sally out but just in time! The place is about to be raided, and Roger, The Guy Who Really Loves Sally comes to her rescue.

As far as I can tell, Sally was doing just what Irma was doing to be busted: violating her parole by consorting with known felons. Tsk tsk, again. She’s fortunate to be “in” with the parole officer.

The story is from Our Secret #4 (1949). You will notice at the top of each page it says My Secret, but that is because for the first three issues that was the name of the comic and the Jerry Iger Studio, who wrote and drew the contents of this comic, already had the job in to the publisher when the change was made. The publisher is Superior, a Canadian publisher who is more infamous for its line of horror comics, also drawn by the Iger gang. This is probably the most decently printed of any Superior comic I have ever seen, since in my opinion Superior had an inferior printer.

So is this a love story or a crime story? What makes it a love story is Sally ends up in an embrace and not the electric chair, a sure sign of a crime comic.