Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars!"

It starts off the way the previous "Love is a Prison" stories did...

...but you'll never see the ending that's coming!

It took a full year after this cover-featured tale by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Art Saff, and inker Vince Colletta appeared in DC's Young Love #119 (1975-76), but there was a resolution to the story, as shown in this ad from Young Love #123 (1977)... 

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Laugh at Love! TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "Job from Hell!" / YOUNG LOVE "Love a la Carte"

Take an old romance comics story...

...and totally-rewrite it...without altering the artwork!

It's actually quite funny!

Author Jeanne Martinet (who did the rewriting) received DC Comics' cooperation with full access to their art archives so the original printing film could be reused to maintain an authentic retro comic book "look" in her "Classic Love Comics Retold!" anthology Truer than True Romance (2001)!
This particular piece was from DC's Young Love #85 (1971), and the original storyline by scripter Jack Oleck was vastly different!

The art was by Art Saff, who started drawing comics featuring beautiful women during the Golden Age, continued in the Silver Age, and kept going into the Bronze Age, as demonstrated HERE!

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THRILLING ROMANCES "Impatient Hearts"

What's the best way to get married?

A big ceremony with months of planning? A quick elopement? Something in-between?

For Ron and Jeannie, as shown by artist Art Saff and an unknown writer in this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Thrilling Romances #25 (1954), a traditional family-sized wedding was the solution!

Your mileage may vary!

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LOVE STORIES "Don't Use Me!"

"Sexual harassment" isn't a recent development...

...as this never-reprinted tale from DC's Love Stories #151 (1973) shows!

Penciled by Art Saff and inked by Vince Colletta, this tale was typical of romance comics of the 1970s, trying to show women both as self-sufficent and susceptible to a strong and handsome man!

Mercifully, the writer is unknown.

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LOVE STORIES "That Special Man"

Romance comics were experiencing a slow death spiral in the early 1970s...

...with DC cancelling books one-by-one until only this generically-titled book remained!

This Art Saff/Vince Colletta-illustrated tale from DC's generically-titled Love Stories #152 (1973) was the penultimate romance story from DC, since it was the next-to-last tale in this final issue of the company's last surviving romance title!
The writer is unknown, but is suspected to be editor Robert Kanigher, who had penned numerous stories before...

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INTIMATE LOVE "Desirable!"

Some of the best romance comics of the 1940s-50s came from small companies...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Intimate Love #28 (1954) proves!

All a simple misunderstanding!

Love the 1950s touches like the idea everyone in Greenwich Village is a poor bohemian/artist (our streets are filled with rich lawyers and hedge fund managers now) and the involvement of Communists!

Penciled by Art Saff and inked by Mike Peppe, the story's author is, sadly, unknown.

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GIRLS' ROMANCES "Made for Each Other"

Sometimes a cover just doesn't go with the story it's supposed to promote...

Art by Don Heck and Vince Colletta

...like this cover which (though nicely-done) doesn't match up with the story!

Heck, they got the girl's hair color wrong and the guy doesn't wear glasses!

Oh, well...on with the story...

Is it just me or is Candy a little passive-aggressive?

Illustrated by the talented Art Saaf, this story from DC's Girl's Romances #159 (1971) makes Candy, sadly, seem like a real doormat.

I'd love to blame the writer, but we don't know who he/she is!

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