Tessie the Typist Comics #17

The cover of this August 1948 Marvel humor comic says it all: Tessie, in a bright red dress and heels, is still dancing cheek-to-cheek with her grinning partner — even though, as she cheerfully informs him, the music stopped three hours ago, the phonograph record having long since wound down on the turntable beside them. It's a perfectly timed gag that captures the lighthearted, romantic comedy spirit that made Tessie the Typist such a fun fixture of late-1940s comics, with Morris Weiss handling every creative duty — writing, art, inking, coloring, and lettering — to deliver a polished, genuinely charming package.