Digital Comic Museum - Life Story 46


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From a book in the JVJ collection.

Scans by Rangerhouse,
edits by Dave H.

Please note: There is no JVJ card for this issue.

Issue: #46
Published: January 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Roy Ald; Will Lieberson (executive editor); Al Jetter (art editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indexed from scanned copy at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: ? (painted) \| Inks: ? (painted) \| Colours: ? (painted) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (1 page)	Picture Biography of David Wayne
Featuring:	Dream Beau of the Month
Genre:	Non-fiction Biography

Comic Story (11 pages)	Can a Sick Girl Find Love?
Synopsis:	Nora has “petit mal,” a “light form of epilepsy” and says “I’m different from other people! There is no life for me!” She spends the summer in the country with her parents and meets Jeff. They date and fall in love. Nora explains away her occasional fainting spells, fearing Jeff will leave her if he knows the truth. Instead, he leaves her because of her lies. Returning home in the fall, Nora changes her way of living and makes friends and has a social life, her “illness was accepted and shrugged aside as of little consequence.” Jeff shows up and they are reunited.
Credits:	Pencils: Marc Swayze \| Inks: Marc Swayze
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Nora Dr. Clinton Nora's Father Martha Jeff Engles Ellen

Comic Story (10 pages)	Double Heartbreak!
Synopsis:	Katie’s boss Laine asks her to take over the bookkeeping department of his company and keep two sets of books, “one for the tax people and the other for ourselves!” She will be well paid, which will allow her to marry Jim sooner. Laine sets up dummy corporations and pays Katie to be listed as president. Jim urges Katie to quit and she agrees, but decides to keep working a bit longer to achieve her savings goal. Jim finds out and breaks up with her due to her “lies, deceit, dishonesty.” Katie turns herself in to the authorities and is sentenced to probation. Jim returns and they reconcile.
Credits:	Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Katherine "Katie" Moore Jim George Laine

Text Story (2 pages)	Love Pay
Credits:	Script: Ruth Sterling \| Pencils: ? (illustration) \| Inks: ? (illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Romance

Comic Story (9 pages)	Wall of Trees: A Timberland Romance
Synopsis:	Phyllis visits her sister Ellie, who married lumberjack Smitty and moved to a lumber camp with him. Phyllis falls in love with lumberman Steve. Because she feels Ellie married below her family's social status, Phyllis schemes to break up Ellie’s marriage. She later repents and admits what she did when she sees Ellie really loved her husband. Ellie goes back to Smitty and Phyllis will marry Steve.
Genre:	Romance
Characters:	Phyllis Wortham Betty Riggert Ellie Smitty Steve Bolton

Statement Of Ownership (0 pages)	Statement of the Ownership, Management, and Circulation
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (1 page)	Love's Omnipresence
Synopsis:	A poem by 16th century poet Joshua Sylvester.
Credits:	Script: Joshua Sylvester [as Sylvester] (poem)
Genre:	Romance

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)	Have You Ever Bought a Copy of True Confessions?
Featuring:	True Confessions
Credits:	Pencils: ? (photo) \| Inks: ? (photo) \| Letters: typeset

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