Candy #17

Quality Comics' teen humor title delivers a perfectly sunny summer gag in this August 1950 issue, with Candy front and center on the beach in her red swimsuit, very pointedly not going in the water — as the speech bubble explains, she doesn't want to spoil her new hair-do, Ted! Behind her, a bewildered blond boy juggles an ice cream cone, while off to the right another beachgoer has turned up in full deep-sea diving gear, making the whole scene delightfully absurd. Harry Sahle's cover art captures that breezy, comedic spirit that made these teenage slice-of-life comics such a cheerful fixture of early 1950s newsstands.