Teen-Age Brides

(Home, 1953-1954)
™ and ©1954 Home Comics
Series continues as True Bride’s Experience #8

Truly a product of its time, Teen-Age Brides was one of the more “mature” 1950s efforts from Harvey Comics, normally noted for kiddie comics like Richie Rich and Casper. As the title suggests, this comic relays a series of cautionary tales about women who marry young. In the stories, the girls enjoy ecstatic (but tastefully off-panel) honeymoons, only to spend the next several pages nagging their husbands about money and the lack of a social life. An argument ensues; one of them leaves. Then, the young bride (never the young husband) realizes how good she has it and races back, begging for forgiveness. They make up and live, we hope, happily ever after. As period kitsch, the title is a hoot and it features some dandy artwork by Lee Elias (who would move to DC and do some early Silver Age work on the Green Arrow backup stories in Adventure Comics and World’s Finest). But even the most temperate feminist might find it hard to generate the grain-of-salt attitude needed to make it through an issue.

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