The company that published the short-lived SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCES was one of many whose properties were bought up by DC Comics following its demise. In 1963, the editor of DC's romance line was looking for a new series to cover feature in GIRLS' LOVE STORIES. He remembered the 1949 story with the gender-reversed time travellers - something quite daring for its day - and decided to use that tale as the starting point for his new series. Aptil O'Day went on to be the cover feature on eight issues and an inside feature in several more before her series was eventually dropped.
Over the next couple of years, the silver-haired beauty made occasional appearances in most of DC's other romance titles. The FALLING IN LOVE issue whose cover is reproduced below features an important O'Day story in which she finally confronts her ex-wife, now a man, whose presence among the time fugitives we had learned of in the very first April O'Day story.
The final cover reproduced below was for the first of a new series of April O'Day stories in YOUNG LOVE which, as with most late-60s retoolings of their characters by DC, introduced sweeping changes (see BLACKHAWKS, METAL MEN, WONDER WOMAN, etc). In this first story we learn that April has tracked down and neutralized the last of the time fugitives in Hollywood, but that others have spread much further afield. At the same time, she is contacted by Carl O'Day, a wealthy Boston financier and we learn that the identity created for April when the time projector inserted her into the 1960s includes a family, one which because of the 'tweaking' of reality involved in the process believes she has always been a member of it. Which in a way she has since these are ancestors of Colonel Adam O'Day, her future self. Carl had apparently not approved of his daughter's desire to make it as a Hollywood actress and was now contacting her for the first time in months, and urging her to return home to Boston. With her job done in Hollywood, April readily agrees and soon finds herself living a jet-set life as a beautiful young heiress, both in east coast high society and at various glamorous locations around the world. At first, she finds fugitives from the Time Agency operating in most of these places, but as the series went on this aspect was played down, the romance aspect played up, and any mention she was TG quietly dropped. With her widowed father and newly-acquired kid sister as supporting characters, the series became a fairly conventional romance one until it faded away as the 1970s began.
The fifth story
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The sixth story
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A dilemma for April
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A new series
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