Date with Debbi #12

DC's teen romance series delivers a perfectly relatable moment of comic embarrassment in this December 1970 issue. Henry Scarpelli's cover captures Debbi — hair in curlers, wrapped in a fuzzy green robe and oversized slippers — reacting in alarm as a younger girl peeks around the door to announce a boy's arrival, while said boy in a red jacket stands in the doorway cheerfully saying "Hi!" without a clue that he's caught Debbi completely unprepared. It's a charming snapshot of the series' breezy, good-humored take on teenage life, and the story inside is titled "The Bloodhound!