Candy #51

Candy and Ted visit a country fair where they decide to get their fortunes told by Madame Zaga, only to receive a dire prediction that threatens to tear them apart. When the mysterious fortune teller warns them that staying together will doom them to misery, Candy and Ted must decide whether to believe in fate—or risk everything by ignoring a glimpse into their future.

Gabby Hyatt's jalopy is about to be seized by a bill collector, so she hatches a scheme to win cash on the game show "Take the Loot" by using mental telepathy to feed answers to her friend Algy Duckworth—but when his prizes arrive, one carton contains something far different from what she bargained for. This 1954 humor tale from *Candy* #51 is a wild ride of misplaced confidence and backfiring plans that leaves Gabby's dreams of salvation in pieces.

When Candy O'Connor learns her beat-up beret is letting down her date Ted Dawson, she decides to earn money for a fancy new hat by taking a job at Mademoiselle Fifi's exclusive hat shop—only to discover that high-end millinery comes with some hilariously high prices and equally prickly customers. Her refreshingly honest sales approach may have cost her the job, but it lands her an unexpected opportunity that finally gets her the hat of her dreams.

Candy O'Connor gets elected president of the Hartwick Girls Good Deed Club and sets out to prove that doing favors for strangers—and even rivals—really does pay off in gratitude and goodwill. When her first attempts to help random people backfire spectacularly, she decides to put her theory to the ultimate test by offering to do a favor for her worst enemy, Cornelia Clyde. But as Candy soon discovers, good deeds don't always lead where you'd expect them to.

When Candy spots a friendship ring at Hartwick Jewelry that matches her skirt perfectly, she convinces a reluctant Ted Dawson to look—and before he knows it, he's eight dollars poorer and stuck with a new accessory to his allowance. What starts as a shopping trip quickly spirals into a comedy of errors as the ring becomes the center of chaos, with Ted finding himself in increasingly ridiculous situations trying to keep up with Candy's whims.

When Ted Dawson can't scrape together enough cash for a movie date with Candy O'Connor, he's forced into an increasingly ridiculous scramble to find the money—one that leaves him pantless, dodging his nosy neighbor Mrs. Snitch, and making increasingly desperate deals around town. With help from his reluctant pal Orville, Ted chases one harebrained scheme after another, only to discover that fortune and timing have their own ideas about how the day will play out.