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| Hillman has some of the best comics art and some of the worst. This teen-age angst comic features the likes of Dan Barry, Mort Meskin, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The Sci-Fi and adventure comics look like a 12 year old did them.
This comic (My Date) is pretty decent. |
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| Publication | September 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Art credits verified on page 24 of Alter Ego #76. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: House-Date Harry; Sunny Daye; Swifty Chase |
| Notes | Art credits verified on page 24 of Alter Ego #76. |
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| Synopsis | With his binoculars, Bob sees a log fall on a train trestle and he warns the next train of the danger. |
| Featuring | Miller and Company |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Bob |
| Notes | Inside front cover; advertisement for binoculars from Miller and Company. |
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| Comic Story | My Problem Date -- And How It Turned Out! (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | House-Date Harry pretends to be a juvenile delinquent so he can hang out in the comfortable apartment of a pretty researcher. However, the real delinquents in town decide to prove that they are much more worthy of study. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: House-Date Harry; Swifty Chase; Sunny Daye; Miss Anthony Drake; "Bumpy" Rhodes; Snubby Skeemer; Virgil; Leopold Krumm; "Bright Eyes" |
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| Synopsis | Eloise auctions off David to Violet to keep other girls from dating him. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero; Teen | Characters: Ultra Violet [Violet Ray]; Eloise Stimmer; David; Merrill; Lorraine; Henry |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Fran Pickert (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Fran is shy and focuses on art. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Jean Anne Marten; Fran Pickert; Joe; Gary Dean; Mrs. Pickert; Mrs. Butler |
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| Featuring | My Date Letters Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Letters from June Kennedy, Philip Warren, Lucy Darren, Stanley Goldstein, and Myles Peyton. |
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| Synopsis | Ginny tries to keep Aunt Fanny from messing up a business deal her father is working on. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Ginny Tate; Icky Davis; Caboose; Aunt Fanny; Mr. Tate; Mrs. Tate; Big Bertha; Charles; Officer Malone; De Witt Van Twerp |
| Notes | Art credits revised from ? to Mike Suchorsky by Craig Delich 2011-1-2. Suchorsky verified the art in an interview with him by Hames Ware and Jim Vadeboncouer, Jr. in the pages of Alter Ego #27 (August, 2003), which reprinted page 7 of this story. |
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| Comic Story | Dancing Lessons (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Snubby Skeemer learns to dance blindfolded. |
| Featuring | Lindy Hopp |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Lindy Hopp; "Solid" Jackson; Snubby Skeemer |
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| Text Story | The Square Fairy Godmother (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Fairy Godmother who helped Cinderella tries to help out in the modern era. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Fairy Godmother; Bugs Barnes; Betty Hanson; Officer Gilhooley |
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| Synopsis | The Rosebud Sisters want to learn more about a recent crime wave. |
| Featuring | The Rosebud Sisters |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Birdie Rosebud; Tabby Rosebud; Chief Mackintosh; Mike; Zorro |
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| Synopsis | Dippy isn't going to wear his big brother's old pants any longer. |
| Featuring | Dippy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Dippy |
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| Featuring | Viderm |
| Credits | Script: Betty Memphis | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Colors:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Viderm skin care products, obtained by writing to the New York Skin Laboratory. |
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| Synopsis | Secret agent X-28 has been captured by spies, but is saved by his son using his Dick Tracy Tommy Gun. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Dick Tracy; X-28; Junior |
| Notes | Parker Johns.
Back cover. |
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