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.
If you find this tale too depressing, click HERE for a much happier one we ran a couple of hears ago!

Merry
Christmas!!!

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.

Next Week:

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!

Alex Toth Tales SECRET HEARTS "20 Miles to Heartbreak" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...actually, this cover scene by penciler Dick Giordano and inker Vince Colletta doesn't occur in the story, since it's not Juan at the door!

(In fact, he only appears in a flashback in this chapter!)

So who is it???

Yep, we finally get back to Young Love for the soap opera-esque finale...

TOMORROW!

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

The third chapter (out of four) from DC's Secret Hearts #142 (1970) was written by Barbara Friedlander, penciled and lettered by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.

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Alex Toth Tales SECRET HEARTS "20 Miles to Heartbreak" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

Cover art by penciler Bill Draut and inker Vince Colletta.

...conveniently, writer Barbara Friedlander is going to provide a synopsis of what previously occurred...

Though, Oddly, Part 3 Will Appear in the Next Issue of Secret Hearts, instead of Young Love...

...You Won't Have to Wait a Month to Read It, Since It'll be Here on Friday!
But, You Will Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

This second chapter (out of four) from DC's Secret Hearts #141 (1970) was penciled and lettered by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.

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The Love Poems of Len Wein

The late writer Len Wein was best known as the co-creator of the All-New X-Men...

Secret Hearts #148 (1970) art by Gray Morrow

...including Storm, NightCrawler, Colossus, and particularly, Wolverine!

But before he hit the comics equivalent of the motherlode, Len took writing assignments in a variety of genres, including romance!

And, when DC romance titles needed poems on their intro/contents pages, the then-neophyte scribe was eager to try his hand...

Secret Hearts #146 (1970) Art by Jay Scott Pike

Secret Hearts #147 (1970) Art by Jay Scott Pike

Secret Hearts #150 (1970) Art by Gray Morrow

Young Romance #170 (1971) Artist Unknown

This last one is more an intro than a poem.

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