Date With Debbi #3 (On Sale: March 18, 1969) cover where Debbi has the same dark eyes as last two issues, so I am going to guess that this is also the work of
Samm Schwartz.
Inside
Debbie stars in
"The Brain Game" and
"The Cave-Man Cometh" by persons unknown.
Flowers stars in an untitled story drawn by
Phil Mendez and we end with another
Debbie story,
"The Minor Becomes a Drum Major" drawn by
Henry Boltinoff.
This is the first of only three stories
Phil Mendez would draw for DC comics, one in this and the next issue of
Date With Debbi and one in
Kissyfur #1 in 1989.
Phil Mendez started a comic strip in the
Mercury Shopper’s Guide at the age of sixteen and was hired by
Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample at the age of eighteen as an assistant art director on the General Mills account. Phil freelanced on comic books at Charlton in 1966 and DC in 1969. He worked as a storyboard artist, head designer and layout director for
Totem Productions' Voyager (NASA).
In 1970 he worked at
Disney Studios on the feature film
Robin Hood. He then worked for
Fred Calvert Productions and
Ron Campbell Films on projects including
Nanny and The Professor, Sesame Street and the IBM specials
The Great Blue Marble.”
Mendez designed presentations and layout work for
Hanna-Barbara Productions on
The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, The Yogi Bear Show, Hong Kong Phooey, The Buford Files, The Partridge Family, The Banana Split Show and more. He was hired by
Mark Davis in 1975 as his assistant to design attractions for Disneyland where he worked on Fantasyland rides, Epcot Center and concept work for future Disney Projects.

He started his own company,
Phil Mendez Productions, in 1982 where he designed the original presentation and characters for
An American Tail and
“Rose Petal Place. He created the children’s shows
Kissyfur and
Foofur, and he wrote
The Black Snowman which won the Martin Luther King “Living the Dream Award” in 1991 (to date the book has sold over 1.7 million copies.) You can see much of Phil's work on his
website. You never know who you are going to find in these old DC Comics.
Edited by
Dick Giordano