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Issue: Miss America Magazine #2
Publication Date: November 1944
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Issues: #2 of 82 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Miss America Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/25/1944
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 28 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: MISS AMERICA MAGAZINE is published monthly by MISS AMERICA PUBLISHING CORPORATION at 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Price 10c per copy, $1.00 per year. Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1944 issue. Copyright 1944 by Miss America Publishing Corporation, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, and all manuscripts should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Application for second-class entry pending. Chicago Advertising office: William R. Stewart, 9 South Clinton Street, Chicago 6, Illinois; New York Advertising office: Allen F. Quigley, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. Printed in the U. S. A.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 4, p423.

21 pages of comic content in this issue. The outer 8 wraps, which contain the comics, are printed in color (14 pages of Miss America in the front, 7 pages of Patsy Walker near the back, with the other pages of text on those wraps featuring small color illustrations unlike the black and white / grayscale printing throughout the rest of the magazine.
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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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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Model portraying Miss America is Dolores Conlon, age 15. Hair style by Michel of Helena Rubenstein.
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Miss America Contents

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Dear Girls:

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Hello Girls
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Jean Goodman's column introducing the magazine format.

Appears alongside the Table of Contents on the inside front cover.
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The Mystery of the Shocker!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Shocker (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Madeline Joyce witnesses a bank robbery by a bizarre man with electrical powers and gives chase as Miss America.
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Pages: 14
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Miss America's Own Fashions

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Genres: informational
First Line: Pattern your wardrobe after Miss America fashions...
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Disclose Notes: Paper doll of Madeline Joyce with fashion outfits to cut out.

Title comes from the Table of Contents.
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Don't Be a Pin-up Girl...

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Genres: teen
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Pages: 1
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$1,000 Miss America Prize Contest Announcement

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First Line: To all teen-age Miss America's: Win $1000 in cash prizes!
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Hear the Bluebells Ring...

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Meg Warner; Dierdre Sheriton; Jock Warner; Mary Warner
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 20, 21, 62 (half page), 63 and 64 (half page). Altson is credited with the two illustrations (though her name is misspelled "Alston"). Two small color illustrations on pages 62 and 63 are most likely by another artist.
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Are You Having Date Problems?

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic, teen
Character(s): Jane Withers (photo); Jimmy Lydon (photo)
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Pages: 3
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Janie's Awakening...

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Genres: romantic, teen
Character(s): Janie; Delia; David; Rusty
First Line: "You will come, too!" Janie planted her fists on the gathers of her candy-striped dirndl, flung back her fair hair, and stamped her saddle shoe so hard her knee jerked.
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Pages: 3.63
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 24, 25, 48 and 49.
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A Wallflower Blooms...

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic, teen
First Line: Maybe you have had those moments of fierce anxiety when it seems nobody is going to ask you for a dance.
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Pages: 3.17
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 26 (1p), 27 (1p), 49 (0.17p), and 50 (1p).
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An Almost Girl...

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Genres: biography
Character(s): Margaret Preston [Maggie Preston] (photo of Jeanne Crain)
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Pages: 2.65
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 28, 29, 45 and 46. Photos from the movie "In the Meantime, Darling."
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Are You Lonesome?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: opinion, teen
Feature(s): Body and Soul
Character(s): Cora
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Article appears on page 30 with a photo and continues on pages 61 and 62 with a small color illustration.
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Big Sister

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: military, teen
Character(s): Pat
First Line: Come in, Pat. Certainly we're going to have that long talk we promised each other—beginning this very minute.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 31, 46 and 48.
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Genres: non-fiction, teen
First Line: Hello, girls! Here is a new friend for you…
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Pages: 2.25
Disclose Notes: Article appears on pages 32 and 33 with a photo of Nina Wilcox Putnam and continues on page 66 with a small color illustration. Page 32 also contains a lengthy editor's note giving Nina's biography.
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Genres: teen
First Line: Since you went away…
Synopsis: Vickie writes a letter to her friend Betty Ann with tales of Hollywood celebrities.
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Pages: 3.1
Disclose Notes: Story appears on pages 34 and 35 with a border consisting of movie star caricatures and continues on pages 64 and 65 with a small color illustration.
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Your Voice and You

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Tricky Tests for Teens...

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Feature(s): Tricky Tests for Teens
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Tops for Teens...

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Genres: informational
Character(s): Joyce Reynolds (Warner Bros. actress)
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Disclose Notes: Five fashion photos of actress Joyce Reynolds on pages 38 and 39.
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Happy Sitting

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Genres: humorous, teen
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Disclose Notes: Babysitting tips.

Six cartoon illustrations by Mary Gibson on pages 40 and 41.
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Charm Rou-Teens...

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Genres: informational
Synopsis: Grooming and make up tips.
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Beauty Isn't Everything

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Genres: informational, teen
Character(s): Helen
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Pages: 1.8
Disclose Notes: Article appears on page 43 with photos and continues on pages 60 and 61 with a small color illustration.
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It's Fun to Act

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Genres: non-fiction, teen
Character(s): Gloria de Haven (photo); Diana Lynn (photo); Shirley Temple (photo); Ann Blyth (photo); Guy Madison
First Line: Sun-suits, slacks, and playclothes…
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Disclose Notes: Feature on teenage movie stars with photos of Gloria de Haven, Diana Lynn and Shirley Temple. Article appears on page 47 with photos and continues on page 66 with a small color illustration.
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[untitled]

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Genres: drama, humorous, romantic, teen
First Line: Meet adorable Patsy Walker... she's not the figment of an author's imagination. Patsy is real, a typical teen-ager; she's wholesome, mischievous, she's – why, Patsy and her family might be your next-door neighbor...
Synopsis: Patsy discovers that Hedy is taking her radio idol Swoon Strong to the prom as her date.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Starts on page 52.

Hedy's last name is spelled "Wolf" in this issue but is "Wolfe" by next issue.

Additionally, Wikipedia credits Ruth Atkinson as creating Patsy Walker and drawing the early stories. Jerry Bails' Who's Who lists Atkinson as working on the feature starting in 1945, but given other evidence of reliable art spotting, this seems likely to be an error (and only off by two months).
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Patsy Walker Dream Fashions

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Genres: informational
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Disclose Notes: Paper doll of Patsy Walker with fashion outfits to cut out.
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First Line: Imagine! These lovely flowers glow in the dark!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Charms & Cain, Chicago, Illinois on the inside back cover. Ad agency editor.
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First Line: You, too, can be more beautiful, charming and popular!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover advertisement for Herald Publishing Co., New York, New York. Ad agency editor.

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