The scenario? A young (and damn cute) scientist declaring that “A Kiss Is Just a Biological Phenomenon.” in Career Girl Romances from early 1969.
If by the end of the story she doesn’t discover that love and kissing are more than mere biochemical reactions, my jaw will drop.
In some ways the life cycle of Career Girl Romances offers more surprises: it started as High School Confidential Diary, switched to Confidential Diary, became Three Nurses for a half-dozen issues —
— and then settled into choosing stories from a broader range of careers. Apparently a smart move as it ran under that name until 1973.
#SFWApro. Top cover by Sal Gentile (according to this listing), bottom by (I believe) Dick Giordano.
The best feature in Career Girl Romances was Tiffany Sinn, a female spy. She appeared in, I think, three adventures, nicely drawn, with fun little plots and some romance.
It’s less that the comic changed names as much as Charlton, would launch a new feature, continuing the numbering of a cancelled series, to avoid registering it with the Postal Service as a new title, for mailing. Second Class mailing privileges required registration of the titles, for a fee, but did allow for renaming the series. So, publishers used to rename a series and continue the numbering from the old series. Charlton was the biggest example of that, carrying that numbering all over the place, to the point of driving collectors nuts trying to find old issues for a series that begins with issue #45.