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Issue Details

Issue #309
Published January 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "BETTY BETZ DOLLFACE and her GANG, No. 309." Code number is B.BETZ O.S. #309-511. Copyright 1950 by Betty Betz. Betty Betz was a noted authority on teenage behavior in the late 1940s, whose articles and drawings were published in the pages of Seventeen, Woman's Home Companion, Pictorial Review, and other magazines. She also had a local TV program in New York City.

Cover Details

Characters Betty Betz (photo); Dollface
Genre teen
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

1 page filler "Photos"

Characters Betty Betz (photo); Candy Jones (photo)
Synopsis Photos of Betty Betz-organized teen parties in New York, Hawaii, and Battle Creek, Mich.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters Betty Betz
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos with hand-written captions.

1 page Dollface and her Gang foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Intro"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Pinhead; Queenie; Loveboat; Dopey; Gumshoe
Synopsis Introduction of characters.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz
Letters Betty Betz

12 page Dollface and her Gang story "Manhunt"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Gogo; Bootsie
Synopsis Dollface's father finds Bunbrain a date for the prom, an employee from his office named Roger Vandermorgan III. He turns out to be a handsome young man and when Dollface's date turns up sick on the night of the prom, ends up escorting both girls to the event.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Movie Tonight"

Characters Dollface; Dopey; Sis
Synopsis Dollface takes her little sister on her date at the movies with Dopey. Sis makes it interesting by telling Dopey all about Dollface's date with Loveboat the previous evening.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Picnic Time"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Dopey; Loveboat
Synopsis Dollface and Bunbrain invite Dopey and Loveboat on picnic. However other girls invite the boys for other activities on the same day and all the girls end up at picnic, too.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Having a Whirl"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain
Synopsis Dollface and Bunbrain take a class in ballroom dancing, only to find their partners are young boys.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page text article "Question - Answer"

Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz
Letters Betty Betz; typeset
Notes Illustrated advice column with two letters (both from Toledo, Ohio) and Betty Betz's answers.

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "TV Tonight"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Queenie; Gumshoe; Dopey; Loveboat; Pinhead
Synopsis After Dollface's father buys a television set, the girls invite the boys over to watch, thinking they'll get to do some dancing when the boys are tired of watching the TV.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "In the Swim"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Dopey; Gumshoe; Loveboat
Synopsis Dollface learns to swim to try to impress Dopey.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Love's Labor Lost"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain
Synopsis Dollface joins a Lonely Hearts Club; but the only letter she gets is one from Dopey.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

8 page Dollface and her Gang story "How to Trap a Monster"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Dopey; Orville; Janie
Synopsis Dollface and Dopey have a fight and split up. Each takes a different date to the big dance, but they end up swapping dates and ending up together again.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Matinee"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain
Synopsis Dollface and Bunbrain go to the theater to see singer Frankie Samone. Samone's press agent wants to use them as "typical bobby soxers" in a publicity photo after the show.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz
Notes Frankie Samone is a take-off on Frank Sinatra.

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "The Big Sweep"

Characters Dollface; Dopey
Synopsis Dollface cheerfully helps her mother with spring cleaning after Dopey tells her he likes the domestic type.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page text article "A Yak Sesh with Betty"

Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz (signed)
Inks Betty Betz (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated advice column with short questions and long answers. "Sesh" in the title is slang for "session."

2 page text article "Party Page"

Synopsis Ideas for planning theme parties.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz (signed)
Inks Betty Betz (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Text with two illustrations.

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Dollface finds a Bargain"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain; Gumshoe; Dopey; Queenie
Synopsis Dollface finds some half-price fabric to make a dress for a party, but at the party she finds the color and pattern is the same as the hosts' couch and curtains.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

2 page Dollface and her Gang story "Christmas Planning"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain
Synopsis Dollface starts knitting a pair of socks in the summer to give at Christmas; but the intended recipient keeps changing.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

1 page Dollface and her Gang story "Beast and the Beauty"

Characters Dollface; Bunbrain
Synopsis Bunbrain gives Dollface an ultra-short "modern 1950" hairstyle.
Genre teen
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Betty Betz
Inks Betty Betz

1 page filler "Photos"

Characters Betty Betz (photos); Jimmy Stewart (photo); Tamara Thomas (photo); Bud Smith (photo); Bruce Mosely (photo)
Synopsis Photos from teen activities at Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Kellogg Youth Week at Battle Creek, Michigan.
Script Betty Betz
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters Betty Betz
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Five photos with hand-written captions.

1 page filler "Hawaii - U.S.A."

Characters Betty Betz (photo); June Allyson (photo)
Synopsis Photos from a teen party in Honolulu.
Script Betty Betz
Pencils Honolulu Star-Bulletin (photos)
Inks Honolulu Star-Bulletin (photos)
Letters Betty Betz
Notes Back cover. Six black and white photos with hand-written caption. One photo is credited to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper, the others may or may not be from the newspaper.