American Update: A Date With Patsy: All Teen Comics #20 – First (and Only) Issue from 1947
*Teen Humour/Funny Girls: With #20, January 1947, All-Winners Comics inexplicably ‘morphed’ for only one issue into All Teen Comics, with humour features Georgie, Willie, Mitzi and – of course – Patsy Walker stood in for the usual Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch and other superheroes. This oddity was a ‘stealth pilot’ pilot for Teen Comics, a title which debuted later that same year, but this is the only issue to appear under the ‘All Teen’ banner, as with issue #21 it became the superheroic All-Winners again for one final issue. This is a lovely copy of a one-off wonder, clean and bright with vivid colour and tight staples, flexible interior cream-coloured pages with no brittleness, and only two small cover markings, a pencilled ‘1946’ (dated Jan. ’47, it would have appeared in late ’46) in the upper left corner, and a faintly stamped ‘Nov 20 pm’ in the upper cover centre. FN at £145 – buy it, and you’ve collected the set!