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The brainchild of writer Aleen Leslie , the A Date With Judy wireless show inspired a media franchise that included a popular DC Comics series .
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The first mark of the eventual medium franchise that would be calledA Date With Judyappeared with an announcement in the June 3 , 1934 edition of thePittsburgh Press : " When a girl of 17 talk of the town to another of 26 , what have they in common what do they require to know from each other ? In the new order of things , does the first facial expression upon the 2d as an old maid ; the second upon the first as a bare child?One - Girl Chorusdelves into a heap of intimate little point of the day , rips the tinsel away and last in for some subtle satire that call for chortle . It ’s a unexampled column to seem solely in The Press , and it get going tomorrow . "
One - Girl ChoruswasAleen Leslie ’s ( néeWetstein ) eclectic caustic remark of the life history of teenage girls , in the figure of a regular pillar in thePittsburgh Press . Leslie ’s course credit would finally include work on 19 major - studio pic releases , two novels , and a number of plays . Said to have bug out writing for thePittsburgh Press at the geezerhood of 17 in 1925 , Leslie sell her first short narrative toCollege Humorin 1928 , and appeared in that magazine ’s syndicate newspaper section as early as 1931 . In 1941 , Leslie andJerome Lawrenceadapted her One - Girl Chorus editorial intoA Date with Judy , a tuner funniness serial publication pore around the saga of the teenaged girl character Judy Foster and her friends and family . The serial publication became a medium franchise , spawning a film starringElizabeth Taylorand a boob tube serial publication , as well as a amusing leger from DC Comics . Leslie briefly service as chairman of the Writers Guild of America in 1956 .
At DC , A Date with Judylaunched in 1947 with the comics industry ’s adolescent humor boom well underway , and also catch the rising undulation of funny book romance . The series lasted for 79 issues 1947 - 1960 , and included body of work byHenry Boltinoff , Graham Place , Bob Oskner , Ira Schnappand a numeral of others . A democratic and historically significant DC Comics serial publication , there’sa number of issuesofA Date with Judyup for vendue in the 2024 October 3 – 5 Good Girl Art and Romance ComicsShowcase Auction # 40269 .
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