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

When Last We Left Our Innocent Protagonist...

...actually, this scene is about to happen...sort of!

Stephanie freaks out as she's about to meet her incarcerated boyfriend Vic as he is released from prison!
Returning home, she hastily packs, leaves a note for her parents, and boards a bus for New York City!
En route, she chats with her seatmate, a friendly old man who warns her of the perils of the Big City.
When Steph arrives at Manhattan's Port Authority bus terminal, she's shocked to discover the geezer had pickpocketed her, leaving her without money, credit cards, or ID!
When a pimp, seeing the distraught young woman, attempts to pick her up, he driven away by an elderly couple who claim they're from the "Travelers' Protection Agency" who bring her to their building, a hotel/halfway house for wayward girls...

Boy, when the Comics Code Authority loosened up the guidelines in 1971...they really loosened them!

A pimp, a cathouse/bordello with its' mistress (with her aide), and a hot-to-trot "john"!
Not exactly a typical day in a DC comic, eh?
So, in a somewhat-truncated ending, Vic's totally-innocent (and his conviction expunged), and Steph's released without even being booked (thus no arrest record)?

Don't ya just love a happy ending?

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Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars! II" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

Watch now, as previous creatives writer Robert Kanigher and inker Vince Colletta, along with new penciler Ric Estrada continue the story a year later in DC's Young Love #124 (1977)...

Does this adorable elderly couple truly know "what's best" for her?

So how does she end up here?

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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)... 

You, Dear Reader, Won't Have to Wait a Year...or Even a Month to Find Out What Happens!

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FALLING IN LOVE "I Was a Prisoner of Love!"

It's a new month...and a new topic for the month!

Read the story and see if you can guess what type of tale we'll be presenting for the rest of the month!

(Hint: It ain't what you'll think!)

Did you guess the genre for the month from this never-reprinted, cover-featured story from DC's Falling in Love #71 (1964), illustrated by penciler Mike Sekowsky and inkers Joe Giella and Frank Giacoia?

It ain't show business romance!

(Although that's a whole category perfect for another month!)

It ain't men who use women and then dump them!

It ain't women who let themselves be treated like doormats!

Actually, the answer is purely in the (admittedly-metaphorical) title!

We're doing "Love is a Prison" in September...which will feature one (or both) of the protagonists incarcerated!

Yes, this story is a bit of a cheat, but the tale is so delightfully-overwrought and the cover was sooo kool, that we wanted to find some reason to post it!
And you did enjoy it, didn't you?

Forgive us?

Next Week...

One (or Both) of Our Lovers is Imprisoned!

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Laugh at Love! TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "I Hate My Hair!" / FALLING IN LOVE "Stolen Dreams!"

Over the past two weeks, we presented stories created in the early 1970s...the end of romance comics!

For the remaining two entries, we're running stories created during the 1950s-60s, the Silver Age of Comics!

Ironically, writer Jeanne Martinet would be considered "politically-incorrect" today for her characterization of androgenous appearance and the resulting gender confusion!

Hardly the sort of thing penciler Tony Abruzzo, inker Bernard Sachs, and an unknown writer had in mind when they created the story for DC's Falling In Love #4 (1956).

Interestingly, when this story was reprinted over a decade later in DC's Falling in Love #99 (1968), only the women's hairstyles were "updated", with the protaganist's hair modified to the then-trendy "page boy" style!

Neither the mens' hair nor anybody's fashions were updated!

(They usually gave the men sideburns and/or longer hair to make them look "mod"!)

But they felt they had to change her hair!

Go figure...

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