A Date with Millie #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA Date with Millie #2 is the second installment of Millie Collins' first solo spin-off series, a milestone that demonstrated Atlas Comics' confidence in its longest-running humor property beyond the flagship Millie the Model Comics title. Published in December 1956 under the Atlas imprint — the transitional house that bridged Timely Comics and what would become Marvel — the issue is part of a short-lived but historically resonant seven-issue run that proved a female-led, fashion-and-romance anthology could sustain its own dedicated title in the mid-1950s market. The series as a whole was significant enough that Atlas revived the A Date with Millie title twice more, and Millie herself eventually crossed over into the superhero Marvel Universe via Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965), cementing her as what Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert called 'Marvel's most famous character outside its superhero universe.'
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The issue was written by Stan Lee and drawn by Dan DeCarlo, the same core team responsible for the flagship Millie the Model Comics during this period. DeCarlo, then midway through his celebrated ten-year run on the character (issues #18–93 of the main series, June 1949–November 1959), supplied both the cover art and interior pencils and inks, cementing the clean, expressive house style he had built for the character — a visual approach that would later define his landmark work at Archie Comics, where he created Josie and the Pussycats. The issue arrived at a turbulent moment for Atlas: publisher Martin Goodman had just shut down his own self-owned Atlas News Company distributor and shifted to American News Company, which itself would soon collapse under antitrust pressure, nearly taking Atlas's output with it.
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- Publisher and era: Published by Atlas Comics (the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics) with a cover date of December 1956; released on newsstands August 14, 1956.
- Creative team: Written by Stan Lee, with cover art and interior pencils/inks by Dan DeCarlo; Stan Goldberg is also credited in the issue's production.
- Series context: This is issue #2 of a seven-issue volume (October 1956–August 1957), the first dedicated spin-off series starring Millie Collins, who had headlined the parent title Millie the Model Comics since Winter 1945.
- Interior format: A 32-page, full-color anthology structured around short gag strips and feature pages, including multiple untitled DeCarlo-drawn stories, 'My Girl Pearl' (featuring supporting character Pearl Dimly), 'Millie's Coloring Page,' 'Millie's Fashion Page,' and 'Chili's Fashion Page' half-pagers.
- Story content: Confirmed story vignettes include Millie and Clicker going fishing, Iggy's dancing causing a scene on the dance floor, Millie and Chili both maneuvering over a coveted modeling assignment, and a gag strip about the origins of Millie's wardrobe.
- Character roster: The issue features the series' core cast — model Millie Collins, her photographer boyfriend Clicker Holbrook, rival model Chili Storm, and Pearl Dimly — all recurring players in the broader Millie the Model universe.
- Series legacy: The A Date with Millie title was revived twice — as a second volume (October 1959–October 1960), which continued numbering into Life with Millie (#8–20), and then into Modeling with Millie (#21–54) — demonstrating the long franchise pull of these early issues.
- Broader cultural footprint: The Millie the Model franchise, of which this spin-off is a direct part, won the 1968 Alley Award for Best Romance Comic and inspired a 1986 Off-Broadway musical, Dial 'M' For Model, staged at LaMaMa E.T.C.
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Reprinted in Dan DeCarlo #[nn] (1992)
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