My Secret Affair #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMy Secret Affair #2 (February 1950) is a representative artifact of the early Golden Age romance boom, published at the precise moment when Fox Feature Syndicate was flooding newsstands with 'My'-titled love comics as a direct response to the Simon & Kirby romance-genre revolution that began in 1947. As part of a very short-lived three-issue run, this issue captures the confession-style storytelling formula — first-person female narration, melodramatic moral consequences, reader advice columns — that defined the genre for a generation of young women readers. It also sits within the larger Fox publishing strategy of 'recycling' titles: the series ended with issue #3, whose numbering was immediately absorbed into the unrelated Martin Kane, Private Eye series, illustrating the chaotic, opportunistic economics of Fox's late Golden Age output.
This issue contains multiple romance stories. In the first story, Helen reveals to her husband that she loves Robert, a man he has befriended, and asks if Robert can move in with them; when Robert awakens, the couple announce their desire to adopt him and raise him as their son, reconciling Helen's past feelings with a family arrangement. A second story follows a woman named Marion who becomes entangled in a deception: she rents an apartment under an assumed name with a man named Hubert, but later learns from her mother that Dick—the man she truly loves—has discovered the affair and ended their engagement, though Marion ultimately reconciles with Dick after the truth about the apartment is revealed. A third story depicts a woman named Karen who falls in love with a man named Dave during an evening of dancing, but after spending time together and considering marriage, Karen decides against it when Dave proves unreliable, choosing instead to marry Ralph.
In "My Past Followed Me!" from *My Secret Affair* #2 (1950), Helen Evans finds her quiet life upended when Joe Seller, the man she once married, reappears after years of silence. Now married to John Farrell and raising a son she believes is John’s, Helen is forced to confront the truth about Robert’s real father—and the painful past she thought she’d left behind.
In "I Loved a Weakling," Jo finds herself caught in a web of family expectations and unexpected alliances when Hubert, pressured by his mother Mrs. Russell, is kept from marrying Marion Price. Instead, Hubert runs off with Madge Davis, while his brother Dick defies their mother’s wishes to marry Marion—setting off a quiet storm of emotions and secrets that linger long after the vows are spoken.
In "I Killed the Man I Loved," Karen’s engagement to Ralph Ednie unravels when her growing feelings for his son David clash with her earlier motives—revealing a past driven by money, not love. As secrets and grief collide, the weight of her choices threatens to destroy everything she thought she wanted.
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My Secret Affair was published under the Hero Books Inc. indicia — one of Victor Fox's several imprint names — and ran on a bimonthly schedule from December 1949 through April 1950, totaling just three issues. Fox Feature Syndicate, founded by entrepreneur Victor S. Fox, was by this period pivoting aggressively away from superheroes toward romance titles, and My Secret Affair was one of more than two dozen love comics the company produced, at least 17 of which shared the 'My' naming convention. The cover art for issue #2 is attributed to artist Chuck Miller per the Grand Comics Database, though interior story credits remain largely unverified in that database.
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- Published February 1950 by Fox Feature Syndicate under its Hero Books Inc. indicia; part of a bimonthly series running December 1949–April 1950.
- The series ran only three issues (#1–#3), after which the title's numbering was folded into an entirely different series — Martin Kane, Private Eye — beginning with issue #4.
- Issue #2 contains three romance stories in the first-person confessional style typical of the genre: 'My Past Followed Me!', 'I Loved a Weakling', and 'I Killed the Man I Loved'.
- The story 'I Loved a Weakling' was reprinted under the retitled name 'My Heartbreaking Romance' in Popular Teen-Agers (Star Publications, 1950 series) #20, and again in Teen Romances (I.W. Publishing/Super Comics, 1964 series) #16 — indicating at least some contemporary commercial appeal.
- Cover art for issue #2 is attributed to Chuck Miller (pencils and inks) per the Grand Comics Database; interior story credits are listed as unknown/unverified.
- The issue also ran in a simultaneous Canadian reprint edition published by Superior Publishers Ltd., catalogued as My Secret Affair (Superior, 1950 series) #2.
- Fox Feature Syndicate published over two dozen love comics with 17 featuring 'My' in the title during this period, of which My Secret Affair was one of the shorter-lived entries.
- The issue's cover price was ten cents, standard for the era, and it ran 36 pages in full color on standard Golden Age saddle-stitched format.
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Reprinted in My Secret Affair #2 (1950), Popular Teen-Agers #20 (1954)
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