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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published May 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes All information for this issue from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas list, August 2010.

Cover Details - "Won't Patsy And Buzz Be Surprised!"

Characters Patsy Walker; Buzz Baxter; Hedy Wolfe
Synopsis Hedy cuts a hole in the ice that Patsy and Buzz are skating on.
Genre humor
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee
Notes Cover carries blurb that reads, "5,000,000 Teen-ager's [sic] love the experiences of Patsy Walker!"

6 page Patsy Walker story "Patsy's Pop's a Poet!"

Genre humor
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee
Notes In college, Patsy's father roomed with poet "Elliot Whitman," a combinational allusion to poets T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

7 page Patsy Walker story "Patsy's Perfume Problem!"

Genre humor
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee

6 page Patsy Walker story "A Cute Number!"

Genre humor
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee

2 page text story "Cousin Julia"

Letters typeset

5 page Margie story "Margie Muddles Thru!"

Genre humor
Pencils Morris Weiss [as MSW]
Inks Morris Weiss [as MSW]
Notes Margie and Babs buy a mudpack advertised in Junior Miss.

7 page Georgie story "Father Knows Best!"

Genre humor
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Sekowsky
Letters Mario Aquaviva
Notes Georgie reads Willie Comics, Gay Comics, and in the last panel, Georgie Comics, describing this same story. Bottom of page 4 shown in Secrets Behind the Comics by Stan Lee (Famous Enterprises, New York, 1947), as example of Mario Aquaviva's lettering.

10 page Patsy Walker story "Love Laughs at Patsy!"

Genre humor
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee