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The series originally lasted for 7 issues, published between 1944 and 1946. It was revived under the title Tessie the Typist Comics in 1947. This volume lasted for 16 issues, published between 1947 and 1949.
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* MuseAbuse: A downplayed example in "Herb's White Horse" (#13). Vivian's the model for an illustration in ''Greenbook'' magazine, which is fuelling her ego and vanity. [[spoiler:The artist hasn't been open with her, and she's actually being painted as a malnourished and despondent Viennese schoolgirl]]. Unlike most things in the comic, the story plays it seriously.
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* AllJustADream: Millie the Model's story "The Genial Genie!" (#13) starts with Millie reading ''Aladdin's Lamp'', and later a courier delivers the real Aladdin's lamp to her, bring Gerry-Gerry the genie into her life. After the genie causes chaos, the ending reveals that Millie actually fell asleep while reading the story of Aladdin, and that everything that happened afterwards was a dream.
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* ThriftyScot: The cover to #22 shows Tessie's kilted and red-bearded boss, the stern-looking Mr [=MacTavish=], refusing to let her take a vacation in the country. Instead a sunlamp and suntan oil are delivered to her desk, in the expectation that she'll simply work in beachwear and tan in the office.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Tessie is regularly jealous, demanding and unreasonable towards Skidsy, but hypocritically insists he has no right to be jealous when she meets an attractive man. Many stories end up with someone punching Skidsy in the face due to his girlfriend Tessie's actions. Sometimes [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale it"s Tessie herself who hits him]].
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* HeadTurningBeauty: Tessie's portrayed as a blonde bombshell who gets everyone's attention, something which is regularly played for comedy (as well as [[MsFanService fan service]]) on covers. Men are often completely DistractedByTheSexy, or are chastised for EatingTheEyeCandy by their wives and partners.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's not his day. It's ''never'' his day.]]
''Tessie the Typist'' (later retitled to ''Tessie the Typist Comics'', then ''Tiny Tessie'' and, for the final issue, ''Real Experiences'') is a 1944 comic book series from Timely Comics, the company which later became Creator/MarvelComics.
It's an AnthologyComic humor series, with the titular Tessie (and her long-suffering boyfriend Skidsy) starring in most stories. The rest of each issue features other comedy characters such as Rusty and Powerhouse Pepper, sometimes including characters from other comics such as ''ComicBook/MillieTheModel''.
Tessie's stories don't usually include fantastic elements, but some of the others do (and the comic also uses narrative tricks such as AllJustADream endings to tell less mundane stories).
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!!''Tessie the Typist'' includes examples of the following tropes:
* AlliterativeName: "Powerhouse Pepper" is a bald man with SuperStrength who stars in some back-up stories.
* AllJustADream: Millie the Model's story "The Genial Genie!" (#13) starts with Millie reading ''Aladdin's Lamp'', and later a courier delivers the real Aladdin's lamp to her, bring Gerry-Gerry the genie into her life. After the genie causes chaos, the ending reveals that Millie actually fell asleep while reading the story of Aladdin, and that everything that happened afterwards was a dream.
* AnthologyComic: A typical issue contains several short stories, usually including a text story as well as comics. Not all of them star Tessie. Whereas the rest of the comic is humorous, the text stories tend to be more serious romances.
* BecomingPartOfTheImage: The cover of #4 shows a dazed Skidsy with his head through a fallen painting. Tessie's the one holding the hammer and nail, but it's still Skidsy who gets blamed.
* CardiovascularLove: The cover to #9 shows Tessie and Skidsy fishing. It's Skidsy who's holding the rod, but a whole bunch of smiling fish, surrounded by floating red hearts, are EatingTheEyeCandy and actively jumping into Tessie's net.
* CirclingBirdies: The cover gag on #4 shows a dazed Skidsy with [[BecomingPartOfTheImage his head through a painting]] and multicolored stars circling around him.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Covers usually feature a funny event centered on Tessie, but with no direct connection to the stories inside. They're essentially single-panel jokes.
* DistractedByTheSexy:
** The cover of #1 shows a distracted Skidsy driving past Tessie -- he's focused on her, but his car's about to collide with a moving train.
** The cover of #12 shows the male judges of a "Bathing Beauty" contest ignoring the women onstage and watching Tessie instead.
** The cover of #13 shows a footballer completely ignoring the ball and running towards a blushing Tessie, arms wide. An exasperated teammate is in the background, yelling in despair.
--->'''Footballer:''' Not ''her'', stupid! Get the ''ball!''
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Tessie is frequently portrayed as a controlling {{jerkass}} and sometimes physically abusive to her boyfriend Skidsy, which is generally played for laughs. In "Taxi Trouble" (#13) she insists he takes her to a concert by taxi, but Tessie's unreasonable behavior means they lose their first four taxis and arrive at the concert hall very late, just as everyone's leaving. Tessie then takes it out on Skidsy, leaving him shocked and [[CirclingBirdies dazed]] with a black eye, while [[{{Gaslighting}} claiming it's all his fault, because he insisted on getting a taxi]]. It's presented as a funny ending.
* {{Jerkass}}: Tessie is regularly jealous, demanding and unreasonable towards Skidsy, but hypocritically insists he has no right to be jealous when she meets an attractive man. Many stories end up with someone punching Skidsy in the face due to his girlfriend Tessie's actions.
* FictionalDocument: Text story "Herb's White Horse" (#13) centers around Vivian Blackwell, a girl who's modelling for an illustration that will appear in ''Greenbook'' magazine.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Tessie's portrayed as a blonde bombshell who gets everyone's attention, something which is regularly played for comedy (as well as [[MsFanService fan service]]) on covers. Men are often completely DistractedByTheSexy, or are chastised for EatingTheEyeCandy by their wives and partners.
* NewSeasonNewTitle:
** The series was officially renamed to ''Tessie the Typist Comics'' with issue #8. The "Comics" part was already on the cover prior to this, but in small text and far less prominent than the rest of the title.
** ''Tessie the Typist Comics'' became ''Tiny Tessie'' for issue #24.
** ''Tiny Tessie'' became ''Real Experiences'' for the final issue, #25.
* ThriftyScot: The cover to #22 shows Tessie's kilted and red-bearded boss, the stern-looking Mr [=MacTavish=], refusing to let her take a vacation in the country. Instead she gets a sunlamp and suntan oil delivered to her desk, so that she can work in her beachwear and tan in the office.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's not his day. It's ''never'' his day.]]
''Tessie the Typist'' (later retitled to ''Tessie the Typist Comics'', then ''Tiny Tessie'' and, for the final issue, ''Real Experiences'') is a 1944 comic book series from Timely Comics, the company which later became Creator/MarvelComics.
It's an AnthologyComic humor series, with the titular Tessie (and her long-suffering boyfriend Skidsy) starring in most stories. The rest of each issue features other comedy characters such as Rusty and Powerhouse Pepper, sometimes including characters from other comics such as ''ComicBook/MillieTheModel''.
Tessie's stories don't usually include fantastic elements, but some of the others do (and the comic also uses narrative tricks such as AllJustADream endings to tell less mundane stories).
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!!''Tessie the Typist'' includes examples of the following tropes:
* AlliterativeName: "Powerhouse Pepper" is a bald man with SuperStrength who stars in some back-up stories.
* AllJustADream: Millie the Model's story "The Genial Genie!" (#13) starts with Millie reading ''Aladdin's Lamp'', and later a courier delivers the real Aladdin's lamp to her, bring Gerry-Gerry the genie into her life. After the genie causes chaos, the ending reveals that Millie actually fell asleep while reading the story of Aladdin, and that everything that happened afterwards was a dream.
* AnthologyComic: A typical issue contains several short stories, usually including a text story as well as comics. Not all of them star Tessie. Whereas the rest of the comic is humorous, the text stories tend to be more serious romances.
* BecomingPartOfTheImage: The cover of #4 shows a dazed Skidsy with his head through a fallen painting. Tessie's the one holding the hammer and nail, but it's still Skidsy who gets blamed.
* CardiovascularLove: The cover to #9 shows Tessie and Skidsy fishing. It's Skidsy who's holding the rod, but a whole bunch of smiling fish, surrounded by floating red hearts, are EatingTheEyeCandy and actively jumping into Tessie's net.
* CirclingBirdies: The cover gag on #4 shows a dazed Skidsy with [[BecomingPartOfTheImage his head through a painting]] and multicolored stars circling around him.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Covers usually feature a funny event centered on Tessie, but with no direct connection to the stories inside. They're essentially single-panel jokes.
* DistractedByTheSexy:
** The cover of #1 shows a distracted Skidsy driving past Tessie -- he's focused on her, but his car's about to collide with a moving train.
** The cover of #12 shows the male judges of a "Bathing Beauty" contest ignoring the women onstage and watching Tessie instead.
** The cover of #13 shows a footballer completely ignoring the ball and running towards a blushing Tessie, arms wide. An exasperated teammate is in the background, yelling in despair.
--->'''Footballer:''' Not ''her'', stupid! Get the ''ball!''
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Tessie is frequently portrayed as a controlling {{jerkass}} and sometimes physically abusive to her boyfriend Skidsy, which is generally played for laughs. In "Taxi Trouble" (#13) she insists he takes her to a concert by taxi, but Tessie's unreasonable behavior means they lose their first four taxis and arrive at the concert hall very late, just as everyone's leaving. Tessie then takes it out on Skidsy, leaving him shocked and [[CirclingBirdies dazed]] with a black eye, while [[{{Gaslighting}} claiming it's all his fault, because he insisted on getting a taxi]]. It's presented as a funny ending.
* {{Jerkass}}: Tessie is regularly jealous, demanding and unreasonable towards Skidsy, but hypocritically insists he has no right to be jealous when she meets an attractive man. Many stories end up with someone punching Skidsy in the face due to his girlfriend Tessie's actions.
* FictionalDocument: Text story "Herb's White Horse" (#13) centers around Vivian Blackwell, a girl who's modelling for an illustration that will appear in ''Greenbook'' magazine.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Tessie's portrayed as a blonde bombshell who gets everyone's attention, something which is regularly played for comedy (as well as [[MsFanService fan service]]) on covers. Men are often completely DistractedByTheSexy, or are chastised for EatingTheEyeCandy by their wives and partners.
* NewSeasonNewTitle:
** The series was officially renamed to ''Tessie the Typist Comics'' with issue #8. The "Comics" part was already on the cover prior to this, but in small text and far less prominent than the rest of the title.
** ''Tessie the Typist Comics'' became ''Tiny Tessie'' for issue #24.
** ''Tiny Tessie'' became ''Real Experiences'' for the final issue, #25.
* ThriftyScot: The cover to #22 shows Tessie's kilted and red-bearded boss, the stern-looking Mr [=MacTavish=], refusing to let her take a vacation in the country. Instead she gets a sunlamp and suntan oil delivered to her desk, so that she can work in her beachwear and tan in the office.
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