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Issue: #1
Published: May-June 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Charles Biro
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint With Glossy Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Dilly Duncan
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Biro (signed) \| Inks: Charles Biro (signed)
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Dilly Duncan Gruesome Jones Mr. Staple

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Big Dance
Featuring:	Dilly Duncan of Dorset High
Synopsis:	Dilly tries to find a way to get $5 so he can take Carol to the dance. Dilly gets the $5 from Hoppy by trying to keep Gruesome Jones from taking Dilly's sister Nancy to the dance. (But Gruesome ends up going with Nancy anyway.) Meanwhile, crooked furnace repairmen damage the Duncans' furnace so they'll have to buy a new one from them.
Credits:	Pencils: Bart Tumey (signed) \| Inks: Bart Tumey (signed)
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Dilly Duncan Gruesome Jones Carol Hoppy Hopkins Marvin Montmorency Nancy Duncan George Duncan Mrs. Duncan

Text Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Dilly Dallies
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (7 pages)	Introducing Betty Campus
Featuring:	Betty Campus
Synopsis:	Betty runs against Bob Lewis for student council president of Suburban High. The campaign ends up a battle of the sexes.
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Betty Campus Bob Lewis Alvin Buz

Text Article (1 page)	Speed Kings
Synopsis:	Short articles about the fastest race cars, fastest baseball pitch, and fastest electronic computer.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (8 pages)	Gruesome Gets the Girl
Featuring:	Dilly Duncan of Dorset High
Synopsis:	Dilly and Marvin help the new neighbors move in. Noticing the move-in is supervised by a pretty girl named Sue, Gruesome also volunteers his services. Thinking his work would land him a date with the girl, Dilly calls at the home and gets a date with their daughter Sue, who turns out to be just a little girl. The girl supervising the moving was the family's daughter-in-law, also named Sue. Dilly tricks Gruesome into taking his date with the pre-teen, but ends up with Carol mad at him.
Credits:	Pencils: Bart Tumey ? \| Inks: Bart Tumey ?
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Dilly Duncan Marvin Montmorency George Duncan Mrs. Duncan Gruesome Jones Carol Sue Carter

Illustration (1 page)	Lockheed F-94A / North American B-45
Featuring:	Lev Gleason Trading Cards
Credits:	Pencils: Al McWilliams ? [as AMcW] (signed) \| Inks: Al McWilliams ? [as AMcW] (signed) \| Letters: typeset

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