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Issue: My Life True Stories in Pictures #4
Publication Date: September 1948
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Issues: #4 of 12 Issues
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Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Genres: romantic
Feature(s): My Life True Stories in Pictures
Character(s): Wife; Husband
First Line: This marriage is all washed up...
Synopsis: A man smashes a vase and tells his wife their marriage is "all washed up" while she preens half-clad at her vanity table and tells him she's bored.
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I Was a Stepmother at Twenty

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Genres: romantic
Feature(s): My Life True Stories in Pictures
Character(s): Marshall Evans; Jane Thompson Evans; Susie Evans; Tony Bower
Synopsis: Twenty-year-old Jane Thompson marries Marshall Evans, an older man with a seventeen-year-old daughter, Susie, who is a defiant young woman and has little love for her stepmom. While Marshall is working nights, Susie club-hops with Tony Bower, a notorious lush. Jane feels she is failing her husband in not putting an end to his daughter's wild ways, and is roughed-up by Tony when she attempts to do so. Susie is impressed with Jane's sense of maternal duty and begins to see her stepmom differently. When Marshall is apprised of the situation, Tony is sent packing with a sucker punch to the jaw.
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I Was a Spoiled Brat

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Genres: crime, romantic
Feature(s): My Life True Stories in Pictures
Character(s): Faith Jordan; Kate; Larry Van Rhine; Tommy Knight
Synopsis: At a Grenville High football game, Faith Jordan ignores her date Larry, and flirts with football hero, Tommy Knight. Schoolmate Kate seethes with jealousy. Following the game, Faith and Larry drink heavily at the Idle Moments Lounge. The police raid the joint, and Faith and Larry flee. As they speed away in Larry's car, a pedestrian is hit and killed. Kate tips-off the police and Faith is arrested. Eventually, she is released with a warning but Larry is sent to a reformatory. Faith's father has died during the turmoil in her life so she leaves school and gets a factory job to support her mother. In doing so, she regains some of her self respect. Football hero Tommy re-enters her life, declares his love, and they marry.
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The Key to His Heart

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Genres: romantic
Feature(s): My Life True Stories in Pictures
Character(s): Rita Creigh; Jeff Allen
Synopsis: Rita finds and returns Jeff's apartment key. Jeff admits he lost the key on purpose, hoping she would find it, because he has long loved her.
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Selfish!!

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Genres: crime, romantic
Feature(s): My Life True Stories in Pictures
Character(s): Tom Halton; Betty Halton; Dominick (gangster)
Synopsis: Tom is a bank clerk whose wife wants to live to the hilt on his slim paycheck. He gambles to buy her the material things she wants, but his luck runs out and he falls into debt. He gets mixed up with gangsters and steals from the bank. When the thefts are discovered, he tries to skip town but is arrested and sentenced to five years. His wife blames her selfishness for the terrible turn of events in their lives.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): "Lucky" Day
Character(s): "Lucky" Day; Junie
First Line: Be careful...
Synopsis: Junie is furious when Lucky ruins her new hat and hopes never to see him again.
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Typewriter Offer

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Synopsis: Half-page, horizontally-oriented ad for the "famous Simplex Portable Typewriter" ($2.95) from American Merchandising Company of Montgomery, Alabama. Small colored spot illustration of a boy calling "Hey, kids!"
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Juke Box Bank Offer

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Synopsis: Half-page, horizontally-oriented ad for a miniature plastic juke box bank with flashing lights ($1.98) from American Merchandising Company of Montgomery, Alabama.
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First Line: It pulls on over the head like a diver's helmet
Synopsis: Full-page, inside back cover ad for masquerade party rubber masks from Rubber-For-Molds, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. Models available are Monkey, Satan, Old Man, Old Woman, Beggar, Clown, and Idiot at $2.95 and Santa Claus at $4.95. Illustration depicts a party-goer in a Monkey mask frightening a woman while others look on and laugh.
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Billfold and Chain Offer

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Synopsis: Full-page, back cover ad for "4 Color Painted Zipper Billfold with Gilt Safety Chain" ($1.98) from Illinois Merchandise Mart of Chicago, Illinois. Scenes available are "Hula Girl", "U.S. Map", "Texas Ranger", and "Sporting Scene".
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