American Update: Girls (and occasional Boys) Wanna Have Fun! 1940s to 1960s ‘Indies’
*Teen Humour/Funny Girls: Previously in this series of Teen Humour/Funny Girls updates, we’ve focused on the merry maidens of Timely/Atlas Marvel, but following the smash success of Archie and his pals in the 1940s, every publisher wanted to get in on the act, and here’s a batch of what would, these days, be termed the ‘indie’ contingent from three decades: Candy (Quality), Cookie (ACG), Freckles & His Friends (Argo), Freddy (Charlton), Georgie (Timely – okay, that one slipped the net), Junior Hopp (Stanmor), Lucy the Real Gone Gal (St. John), Mazie (Harvey), Mopsy (St. John), My Little Margie (Charlton), and Thirteen (Dell). With artwork ranging from the gorgeous to the grotesque (no clues which!), these paint a picture of the evolution of the ‘teen-ager’ in popular culture.