Popular Teen-Agers #6

This anthology issue contains multiple stories including "Costume Ball," in which judges award a grand prize to a person in a gorilla suit at a costume party who turns out to be an escaped ape from the zoo. "The Showoff Showdown" features a character named Rookie confronting a woman who is showing off and boasting about a reserved bench. "Midge Martin Mixes Men in a Masquerade Melee" follows Midge Martin, a high school reporter from Glenview High, as she prepares to cover a masquerade party, and involves plot elements with a bus and concerns about what to wear to the event. A fourth story titled "Borrowing" depicts a woman named Eve and her aunt Adeline caught in a nighttime canal adventure involving a bed drifter and attempts to escape through windows and doors.