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Issue: Miss America Magazine #1 [31]
Publication Date: May 1947
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Issues: #1 [31] of 82 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Miss America Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: 04/07/1947
Volume: 6
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 26 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, No. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-47, p. 240, Copyright number: B71897.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Inker(s): ? (credited as Trend Studios) (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (credited as Trend Studios) (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
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Pages: 1
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Table of Contents

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.67
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Oh, what a beautiful morning!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Editor Goodman shares an anecdote about her 73rd-floor office's window cleaner, Mickey, whose daughter, Helen, was "a super-special Number One Patsy Walker fan" who had organized her own neighborhood Patsy Walker fan club. Helen, who lived nearby, would "often pop up here to say 'hello' and talk things over with the creator of Patsy Walker."
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Van Johnson (photo); Lucille Ball (photo); Peter Lawford (photo); May Mann (photo); Red Skelton (photo); Trigger (photo); Roy Rogers (photo); Dale Evans (photo)
First Line: Hope we are the first to tell you that wonderful news.
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 8 (1p) and 9 (0.5p).
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (column logo)
Inker(s): ? (column logo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Professor Quiz
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Pages: 0.33
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: First-aid for those ailing teen heart, home and head aches…
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.6
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 12 (1p) and 42 (0.6p).
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Champion the Breakfast

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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.83
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 14 (1p), 56 (0.33p), and 64 (0.5p).
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And Suddenly She Knew...

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Lucy spooned the soft yellow of her poached egg over the crispy toast and reflected bitterly on the obvious injustice of life.
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Pages: 3.55
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 16 (1p), 17 (1p), 43 (0.33p), 64 (0.67p), 65 (0.33p), and 66 (0.22p).
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Poll Your Popularity

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 18 (1p), 19 (1p), and 53 (1p).
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The Mayor, the Pigeon, and the Cop

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3.33
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 20 (1p), 21 (1p), 58 (0.67p), 59 (0.33p), and 60 (0.33p).
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Transformation, Please...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2.49
Disclose Notes: Weight loss advice.

Appears on pages 22 (1p), 23 (1p), and 36 (0.49p).
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Take Your Bow, Winners!...in MA's Design Contest

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A two-page ad featuring the winners of the Soap'n'Water Fabrics company's Miss America clothing design contest.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (signed as Dottie)
Inker(s): ? (signed as Dottie)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Convalescing (in her own inevitable manner)…
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Pages: 1.4
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 27 (1p) and 36 (0.4p).
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Springtime Comes to Centerville and to Patsy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Cy; Algy
First Line: "I wandered, lonely as a cloud- - -!"
Synopsis: Buzz must come up with a poem to ask Patsy to the spring festival.
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Pages: 8
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Look, Bill, the sun is 10 minutes slow!
Synopsis: A boy and a girl are sitting on a beach. They have distressed expressions as the girls looks at her watch and uses a stick to draw a line in the sand.
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Pages: 0.11
Disclose Notes: A captioned 1-panel cartoon.

Appears on page 36 alongside the unrelated "Transformation, Please" text feature.
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Beauty and the Feast...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (signed as Dottie)
Inker(s): ? (signed as Dottie)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Joan Craig sat on the bed, knees hugged up to her chin, watching Helene get ready for another of her exciting dates.
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Pages: 3.34
Disclose Notes: Appears on pages 38 (1p), 39 (1p), 40 (0.67p), and 41 (0.67p).
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Hey, gather around here all you MACmems - and listen!
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Pages: 0.33
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Sorry–Wrong Number

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Miss America Magazine
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Subscription offer.

Appears on page 41.
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"Thanks a Million!"

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Junior Miss
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: A promo featuring "Junior Miss" star Cindy Smith curtseying while holding aloft an issue of that book. The promo text thanks the "nearly a million merry readers" who bought the first issue of Junior Miss.
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Dress Rehearsal for Summer

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A two-page ad for dresses.
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Look Natural Please!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2.25
Disclose Notes: Tips for being photogenic.

Appears on pages 46 (1p), 47 (1p), and 63 (0.25p).
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So You Want to Be in Radio?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2.67
Disclose Notes: Tips for breaking into the field of radio broadcasting.

Appears on pages 48 (1p), 49 (1p), and 62 (0.67p).
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Rain, Rain, Look My Way...

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A two-page ad for raincoats.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Our idea-and-inspiration dept…
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Juanita Johnson, Peggy Ann Rogan, Jerry Nelson, Bernice Beckwith, Mary Margaret Turner, Ida May Sambell, Irene Garvick, Gloria Parke, Bessie McKenzie, Germaine Lartey, and Rosalie Driewer.
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Pin Money Buys...

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Pin Money Buys; Shopping Notes
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Pages: 0.66
Disclose Notes: Recommendations of items to purchase. Split into 2 one-third page sections across pages 54-55.

This feature appears to be the previous Miss America feature "Shopping Notes" renamed.
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Hitting the Nail on the Head

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Tips for quitting nail-biting.

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