A Date with Judy #15
A Date with Judy #15 sits at an intriguing crossroads of Golden Age pop culture: it arrives on newsstands in March 1950, the exact same cover month that DC launched The Adventures of Bob Hope #1, making this issue a rare early node in DC's expanding roster of licensed real-person celebrity comics. The series itself was one of the publisher's deliberate answers to the post-superhero market, bringing a well-loved multi-platform teen franchise—radio, film, and soon television—into the funnybook format at a moment when most competitors were pivoting hard toward crime and horror. As a mid-run chapter of a 79-issue series, issue #15 represents the stable, confident stride of DC's longest-running media tie-in teen-humor book, carrying the recurring cast of Judy Foster and Oogie Pringle through the format that would outlast every other version of the franchise.
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The underlying property originated when writer Aleen Leslie and co-creator Jerome Lawrence adapted Leslie's 'One Girl Chorus' column from the Pittsburgh Press into a radio comedy series in 1941—a show that itself launched as a summer stand-in for Bob Hope's NBC program. DC (then National Comics Publications) debuted the comic adaptation in October–November 1947, catching both the teen-humor wave and the early stirrings of romance comics, and staffed it with house regulars including Henry Boltinoff, Graham Place, Bob Oksner, and letterer Ira Schnapp. By the time issue #15 reached stands in early 1950, the radio series was in its final season, meaning the comic book was beginning to sustain the franchise on its own—a role it would hold until 1960, long after the radio and TV versions had ended.
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- Published by National Comics Publications (DC) with a March 1950 cover date, per the DC Database's March 1950 release catalog.
- The series ran for 79 issues from October–November 1947 to October–November 1960, making it the longest-running media adaptation in the A Date with Judy franchise.
- Recurring cast features Judy Foster and her boyfriend Oogie Pringle, characters originating in Aleen Leslie and Jerome Lawrence's radio comedy series (1941–1950), which was itself based on Leslie's 'One Girl Chorus' newspaper column.
- Issue #15 is catalogued as featuring Bob Hope as a character—notable because The Adventures of Bob Hope #1, DC's dedicated Hope title, shares the same February–March 1950 cover month, placing both books in DC's earliest wave of licensed celebrity comics.
- The A Date with Judy radio series that inspired the comic originally launched as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's NBC show sponsored by Pepsodent in 1941, giving the Hope/Judy connection a deep franchise history.
- The DC comic series was part of National Periodical Publications' deliberate mainstream strategy at a time when many rival publishers had abandoned teen humor for crime and horror genres.
- The broader A Date with Judy franchise encompassed the radio series (1941–1950), an MGM film (1948) starring Jane Powell and Elizabeth Taylor, and an ABC television series (1951–1953), all of which fed audience recognition for the comic.
- Credited contributors to the comic series across its run include artists and writers Henry Boltinoff, Graham Place, Bob Oksner, and Ira Schnapp; issue-specific creative credits for #15 were not recoverable from available sources.
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Oogie tries to convince his father to let him borrow the car so he can take Judy to Winter Prom.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).