The liberated woman story in Debbi 2 is the one that veers the furthest from the original, but still, the writer obviously saw the emancipated woman Judy story.
Alvin Schwartz was the first writer on A Date with Judy, and wrote her stories cited here; Graham Place drew the originals. I can track one writer on early Date with Debbi stories without being able to put a name to him or her; it doesn't seem to be any of the ones already known on the strip: Henry Boltinoff, Steve Skeates, Barbara Friedlander, or John Albano. Samm Schwartz was the first artist, but even by issue 2 the powers that be decided that some Schwartz faces had to be reinked. By issue 3 new artists began arriving.
DATE WITH DEBBI Stories with
A DATE WITH JUDY Plot Sources
| "Detention's the Thing" DWD 1 (Jan-Feb/69) |
| Story 1, ADWJ 1 (Oct-Nov/47) |
| "Eeeek—It's a Heap" DWD 1 (Jan-Feb/69) |
| Story 3, ADWJ 1 (Oct-Nov/47) |
| "Who's Blue?" DWD 2 (Mar-Apr/69) |
| Story 4, ADWJ 1 (Oct-Nov/47) |
| "I'll Be Suing You" DWD 2 (Mar-Apr/69) |
| Story 2, ADWJ 1 (Oct-Nov/47) |
| Story 3 (Liberated Woman), DWD 2 (Mar-Apr/69) |
| Story 2, ADWJ 2 (Dec-Jan/48) |
| "The Cave-Man Cometh" DWD 3 (May-Jun/69) |
| Story 2, ADWJ 3 (Feb-Mar/48) |
That's pretty amazing. Especially since they don't seem to be cherry-picking the best Judy stories from the whole run -- they just started from Judy #1 and went forward. I assume their original plan was to just keep on going until they ran out of Judy stories -- I wonder why they quit?
ReplyDeleteAnd it was something you'd expect to see more from Mort Weisinger than from the first Debbi editor, Dick Giordano--which makes me think the idea was imposed on him.
ReplyDeleteMartin: Steve Skeates asserts that Tippy Teen also recycled Judy stories. Can you check it out?
ReplyDeleteI will be looking into that; some of the Tippy stories do feel familiar.
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