Candy #39

Quality Comics' teen humor series delivers a perfectly timed domestic comedy in this June 1953 issue, as Candy cheerfully reassures her beau Ted — "Don't mind Dad, Ted — he always wanted to know what makes you tick!" — while her heavyset, mustachioed father enthusiastically presses a stethoscope to the poor boy's chest on the living room couch. Ted's wide-eyed alarm and Candy's amused grin say everything about the delightful awkwardness of meeting the parents. It's the kind of warm, relatable humor that made "America's Favorite Teen-Age Girl" such a fun read in 1953.