Jeanie Comics #27

Marvel's teen comedy series delivers a delightfully chaotic scene in this October 1949 issue, as Jeanie finds herself surrounded by three eager young men in a Clock Department — one dangling a pocket watch, one kneeling with a mantel clock, and another watching with a knowing smile, while the flustered culprit insists via speech bubble, "Honest, I only came in to set my watch!" The cover's warm, breezy humor captures exactly the kind of lighthearted romantic comedy that made "Queen of the Teens" such a charming corner of late-1940s comics. At a dime a copy, this was wholesome, laugh-out-loud fun for the postwar teen crowd.