Here's a totally-surreal tale from the editor who created the romance genre in comics...
...which appeared in the next-to-last issue of this series!
In 1947, Joe Simon (with Jack Kirby) created Young Romance, the first romance comic, for Prize Comics...which sold the title to DC when the publisher went out of business in 1963.
In 1973, DC returned Simon to the editorship of Young Romance as of #196.
Joe attempted to "update" the title by dropping all the traditional "romance artists" from new material, assigning edgier, experimental types like the ones who illustrated this short from #207 (1975), Jerry Grandenetti and Craig Flessel.
It didn't work, and, with sales dropping, the book (which had gone bi-monthly) ended with the next issue, #208.
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