A Date with Judy #25

A Date with Judy #25 serves up a perfectly timed Halloween mood, with a red-dressed Judy clinging to her date's arm and pleading, "Oo-oogie — did we HAVE to walk home past the old haunted house?" — all while bats circle overhead and a crumbling mansion looms in the background. The cover captures that sweet spot between teenage romance and lighthearted spookiness that made the radio favorite such a natural fit for comics in 1951. At 52 big pages for a dime, this DC charmer packs plenty of Judy's good-natured misadventures into one autumn issue.