Issue: #13
Published: March 1950, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Victor S. Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Indicia reads: "MY LIFE, True Stories in Pictures."
Indexed from a scan from http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/.
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| Comic Story (10 pages) |
I Wanted Good Times |
| Synopsis: |
Helen’s late father was a theatrical newspaper editor, and she grows up in the Broadway world of good times and show biz celebrities. Helen dates Marvin, who owns a small radio shop. They fall in love and marry, but he’s a widower with two young sons and Jane finds it difficult to adjust to being a housewife and stepmother. Jane goes out with some old friends and one of Marvin’s sons falls ill. Jane realizes she has to take her responsibilities seriously and Marvin understands his wife needs a break from time to time. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Helen Mager Marvin Donnelly Bill Jane John Doris Tom Johnny Donnelly Billy Donnelly Bert Pierson Dr. Coopersmith Grandma Donnelly |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
I Was a Brazen Cheat |
| Synopsis: |
Secretary Ruth’s husband Tom often works at night. She’s bored and worries he takes her for granted. Ruth meets Bill, who’s dating her friend Lena, and they both “feel a powerful bond between” them. They begin an affair and Ruth asks Tom for a divorce. Afterwards, she continues to see Bill but he never asks her to marry him. Ruth learns from Lena that Bill is already married. Ruth goes back to Tom but he says “my love for you died” when he learned she’d been unfaithful. He and Lena are now engaged. Ruth knows “I had to pay for my folly with a broken heart.” |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Bill Chadwick Tom Forrest Ruth Forrest Lena Mills |
| Letters Page (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
What Am I to Do? |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Mona Ashton] | Letters: typeset |
| Text Article (1 page) |
For Pretty Hands |
| Featuring: |
Gloom Chasers |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Mona Ashton] | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
My Two-Timing Heart |
| Synopsis: |
Secretary Rosalie falls in love with Dick, a “counselor in a school for wayward children.” They become engaged but Dick often works late and a bored Rosalie secretly dates her boss Peter. Dick catches Rosalie and Peter kissing and breaks up with her. Rosalie decides to change her life for the better and studies to become a counselor. She is assigned to Dick’s school and they resume their romance. |
| Genre: |
Romance |
| Characters: |
Rosalie Dawson Dick Hendricks Peter Tibbet Mr. Dawson Mrs. Dawson |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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