Alex Toth Tales YOUNG LOVE "20 Miles to Heartbreak" Part 4

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

Cover art penciled and inked by Dick Giordano with retouches by Nick Cardy

...we'll let scripter Barbara Friedlander explain where we left off...

This final story in a four-issue arc appeared in DC's Young Love #79 (1970), penciled by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.

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We Begin Our Month-Long Series of Christmas-Themed Posts, including a very HTF version of O Henry's classic "Gift of the Magi" by P Craig Russell!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

Halloween HeartBreak WITCHING HOUR! "I Married a Ghost"

Does True Love transcend the barriers between life and death?

Cover art by Nick Cardy

Or is it merely a delusion brought on by grief?
Judge for yourself...

Writer Murray Boltinoff (using a pen-name because he was the book's editor, and company policy dictated that editors didn't edit their own work) and artist Art Saff leave this story from DC's Witching Hour! #15 (1971) open-ended as to whether Jen's ghost actually exists or not.

What do you think?

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Another Surreal Story of...

HAUNTED HEARTBREAK

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Weird Halloween Romances LOST WORLDS "Worlds Apart"

"Submitted for your approval, a romantic triangle with unequal sides..."

"...because one point of this scalene triangle is firmly entrenched...in the Twilight Zone!"

(It works if you read it in a Rod Serling-esque voice.)

Cue Twilight Zone theme music...

While the writer for this story from Standard's sci-fi anthology title Lost Worlds #5 (1952) is unknown, the art is by Nick Cardy, who began his career in the Golden Age and kept working up until his passing in 2013!

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Our Final Tale of ♥True Love♥...with a Horrifying Halloween Twist!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS "Episode 27" Part 2

When Last We Left the Karen/Greg/Rita Love Triangle...

Karen returns to Danville Corners and Greg's arms.
Suddenly, Greg's fiance, Rita, awakens from her coma!
As friends and relatives gather to celebrate in Rita's room, a paramour from her past, Ray, appears...

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The Third Most Unexpected Plot Twist of All!
(If you never watched soap operas, that is...) 

This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #136 (1969) was written by Jack Miller, penciled by Jay Scott Pike, and inked by George Roussos (except for the cover/splash page which Nick Cardy penciled and editor Dick Giordano inked).

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS "Episode 27"

When Last We Left the Karen/Greg/Rita Love Triangle...

...wait!
Is Karen a man-stealer?
Is Rita about to have her heart broken?
Read on...

Why does Rita want Ray Silva, not her fiance, Greg, to take her home?

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The Second Most Unexpected Plot Twist of All!
(If you never watched soap operas, that is...) 

This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #136 (1969) was written by Jack Miller, penciled by Jay Scott Pike, and inked by George Roussos (except for the splash page which Nick Cardy penciled and editor Dick Giordano inked).

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DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Four: Hidden Room

When Last We Left Coburn Manor...

...the home's owner, in the process of selling the centuries-old structure to a hotel chain, may be the latest victim of the ghostly Grey Lady...

Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love died with this issue, but was reborn as Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, a horror anthology that managed another eleven issues before, ahem, giving up the ghost!

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