We wind up Black History Month with one of the few Black romance tales by DC...
...which also has a rather unique history behind it!
In our entry about Fawcett's 1950s title Negro Romance (HERE), we mentioned that the actual stories were rather generic, with the characters being illustrated as Black rather than White being the only difference.
This John Rosenberger tale from DC's Girls Love Stories #170 (1972) proves that point, since it's a visually-modified version of this story...
...from Young Romance #151 (1967-68)!
In fact, the original tale was the cover feature!
While the fashions, hairstyles, and the leads' facial features were modified, except for a couple of captions, the script stayed exactly the same!
Even the characters' names (Terry and Rich) were unchanged!
(Credit where credit is due: the amazing comics historian Jaque Nodell pointed out the link between these two stories several years ago HERE!)
But the saga doesn't end there!
The story was re-presented one more time, in Young Love #111 (1974)...
This time with the usual updating of hairstyles and fashions...but very little modification of the original script and Terry and Rich stayed Caucasian!
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