(September 1948)
Fox,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Feature Syndicate Inc.
- Editing
- Victor Fox
[no title indexed]
My Life True Stories in Pictures / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This marriage is all washed up...
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Wife; Husband
- 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.
- Reprints
in 
I Was a Stepmother at Twenty
My Life True Stories in Pictures / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- 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.
I Was a Spoiled Brat
My Life True Stories in Pictures / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- crime; romance
- Characters
- 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.
The Key to His Heart
My Life True Stories in Pictures / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- 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.
Selfish!!
My Life True Stories in Pictures / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- crime; romance
- Characters
- 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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Table of Contents
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0.
["This marriage is all washed up..."]
My Life True Stories in Pictures -
1.
I Was a Stepmother at Twenty
My Life True Stories in Pictures -
2.
I Was a Spoiled Brat
My Life True Stories in Pictures -
3.
The Key to His Heart
My Life True Stories in Pictures -
4.
Selfish!!
My Life True Stories in Pictures -
5.
["Be careful..."]
"Lucky" Day -
6.
[Typewriter Offer]
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7.
[Juke Box Bank Offer]
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8.
["It pulls on over the head like a diver's helmet"]
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9.
[Billfold and Chain Offer]
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