Yuletide Tidings SECRET HEARTS "So Little Time!" / FALLING IN LOVE "Perfect Gift"

Here's a bittersweet Yuletide tale about potential love that was published twice...

...first, half a century ago, in DC's Secret Hearts #87 (1963)...

...then, with the usual "updating" of fashions, hairstyles, and automobiles (and a title change) in DC's Falling in Love #128 (1972)!

Not every Christmas romance story ends like a Hallmark Channel Holiday Movie, even in the 1960s-70s!

Illustrated by veteran artist John Rosenberger, the name of the scripter of this melancholy tale is lost to the snows of time.

Merry Christmas!!!

Yuletide Tidings TEEN-AGERS INGENUE "Susie's Theory of Relativity...or How to Live with Relatives at Christmas"

It's strangely-difficult to find Christmas-themed romance comics...

...but teen magazines like this Dell's Teen-Agers Ingenue from the early 1960s help fill the void!

Susan Perl also contributed to Harvey Kurtman's HELP!, as well as hundreds of children's books (and some adult stuff too!)!

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DARK SHADOWS "Touchy Situation" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

It's almost Christmas at Collinswood and with most of the Collins family away, Victoria Winters visits Barnabas Collins at his home in the original mansion tucked away at the edge of the property.

But there are others around Collinswood...others who don't belong!

One is an itinerant wanderer who, desperate for food, enters thru an unlocked window.

And, the empty mansion proves to be a tempting target for two recently-released convicts who plan to take everything they can carry.

Victoria encounters the criminals, who chase her to the edge of the cliff, where she now hangs precariously...

That's a story for another time...

This was #1 of the second four-issue miniseries based on the 1991 revival.

There was one more mini-series in the works, but it ended after only one issue was printed as the publisher abruptly went out of business.

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DARK SHADOWS "Touchy Situation" Part 1

Remember the gothic tv soap opera Dark Shadows?

This is it...but it's not it!

Confused?

Read on, and all will be explained...

 This is why we call these chapter endings "cliffhangers".
Story by Maggie Thompson, art by Jose Pimentel.

This never-reprinted comic series from 1993 presented new stories based on the prime-time revival that ran for half a season in 1991.
(Despite excellent ratings for the first couple of episodes, later eps were constantly pre-empted by news coverage of the first Gulf War, and the show never regained the audience.)

The tv series revival adapted the original soap opera's storyline from the point where Barnabas Collins was freed from his coffin in the present to the first time-travel story featuring newly-arrived nanny Victoria Winters witnessing how Barnabas became a vampire in 1795 Collinsport.

The comic presented sequel stories that went in a different direction than later tales in the original tv series, creating a new continuity, much like the 2009 Star Trek movie did.

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Aerial Ardor BONNIE TAYLOR: AIRLINE STEWARDESS "Flight 101--to Heartbreak!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...when Bonnie Taylor: Airline Stewardess, filling in for a sick friend, encounters a former beau (with his current fiancee)...who slips her a note asking for a secret rendezvous...she's thrown into emotional turmoil!

This story from DC's Young Romance #126 (1963), written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by John Romita Sr,  seems innoccuous enough,
But, within a couple of issues, Bonnie's throwing herself at literally every guy (and even a ghost or two) she runs into, ready to marry some of them before the second part of her two-part tales!
(I'm sure it it wasn't for the extremely-strict Comics Code Authority, we'd see some of the between-the-sheets action even all-ages comics of today occasionally indulge in!)

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