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