Candy #48

Quality Comics' teen humor series keeps the laughs coming in this May 1954 issue, as a flustered young man in a blue suit finds himself caught between a laughing blonde and a very unamused dark-haired girl in a green skirt — his stammered excuse ("But, Candy, you told me to pick something up on the way over!") setting the scene perfectly. The party backdrop, complete with dancing couples and a birthday cake, makes the social awkwardness all the more delightful. "A Scheme for the Team" promises the kind of breezy, relatable comedy that made Candy — "America's Favorite Teen-Age Girl" — such a charming fixture of 1950s comics.