We begin with "Perfect Match: Philip, Louise & Kirk" drawn by Tony DeZuniga. Louise doesn't understand the passionate feelings she has about Kirk, especially when she's already engaged to Philip.
Next, we have "Just Friends" penciled by John Rosenberger. Marni denies her feelings for Tommy because her mother believes that a rich boy could never truly be interested in a poor girl.
The next item is a quiz, "What's Your Dating I.Q.?" drawn by Liz Berube.
That is followed by "Gruesome Twosome" by Jack Oleck, George Tuska, and Vince Colletta. Nancy is a plain girl who agrees to go out with Harold, who's too short, because no one else will date either of them. She's quickly bored by his constant talk about his hobbies, but eventually, he changes her mind when he fights one of the bullies that's been harassing them (one of Harold's hobbies is martial arts).
We end with an untitled one=pager drawn by Lee Elias. Laura invites a persistent suitor to come to her house, but it's only so he can babysit her brother while she goes on a date with her boyfriend.
Edited by Dorothy Woolfolk. Born in 1913, Dorothy takes over the editorship of all seven DC romance books starting this month. Dorothy Woolfolk was one of the first women in the American comic book industry. She served from 1942 to 1944 as an editor at All-American Publications, one of the three companies that would merge to form the present-day DC, then spent the next two years at Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor to Marvel Comics, and in 1948 was an editor at EC Comics.
Woolfolk said she had found Superman's invulnerability dull and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet. This gave rise to the famous fictional metal kryptonite, which made its first appearance in the comics in the story "Superman Returns To Krypton!", credited to writer Bill Finger, in Superman #61 (1949).
She wrote an unknown number of Wonder Woman stories in the 1940s, making her the first woman to write the character. She also wrote for the science fiction magazine Orbit during the 1950s, and in the 1970s and early 1980s was the author of the 10-book Scholastic Press young-adult novel series about teen detective Donna Rockford.
Her second husband was 1930s comic-strip cartoonist and 1940s comic-book writer Walter Galli. She met her third husband, novelist William Woolfolk, during her stint at DC when she rejected a script he had submitted for a Superman comic book. Woolfolk was nominated every year from 2001 to 2004 for induction into the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame and in 2018 Woolfolk won the Bill Finger Award. Dorothy Woolfolk died in November 2000.
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