A Date with Judy #52

DC's beloved teen comedy series serves up a perfectly timed slice of 1956 romantic frustration in this issue, spotlighted as "Television and Radio's Coast to Coast Favorite." The four-panel cover tells a delightful mini-story all on its own: Judy admires her new striped dress in the mirror, fumes that her beau Oogie never compliments her clothes — and then promptly slams the door in his face the moment he actually does, declaring "Flattery will get you nowhere!" It's the kind of cheerful, relatable contradiction that made A Date with Judy a staple of mid-fifties comics racks, all for a dime.