Swinging '70s Stories YOUNG ROMANCE "The Swinger in 'Rise, Love, Rise!"

Yesterday, We Met...

..an advocate of the "free love" movement, who an engaged woman thought was trying to steal her fiancee!

(She wasn't!)

At the end of that story, Lily was seen riding off in someone's car...

Sadly, there was no "next chapter"!

After this two-story premiere in DC's Young Romance #170 (1971), Lily Martin never graced the pages of another comic book...not even in reprint!

Since editor Dick Giordano left the book after this issue, replaced by Dorothy Woolfolk, I suspect she was responsible for not continuing a series that didn't fit her editorial vision.
Usually, DC's editors would find a way to reuse already-purchased material, but a cursory examination of Woolfolk's run doesn't show any stories that could've been reworked versions of already-written/illustrated tales!

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Swinging '70s Stories YOUNG ROMANCE "Michelle: Love is a Swinger!"

This Month's Final Example of 1970s Romance Comics...

...is actually both a finale to a multi-part series we ran last year and the premiere of a new series!

As you might have guessed, this never-reprinted story from DC's Young Romance #170 (1971) just introduced DC's new example of "free love", Lily Martin...

...whose first solo adventure followed (after a couple of reprinted stories) in this very same oversized (64-page) issue!

And, that (also never-reprinted) tale will follow...tomorrow!

Swinging '70s Stories TENDER LOVE STORIES "My Kind of Music!"

Motorcycle, guitar, long hair, fringed jacket...

...yep, this Don Heck/Joe Sinnott cover superbly-portrays a 1970's version of a "bad boy"!

Long-time pros Jack Katz, Werner Roth, and John Tartaglone illustrated this never-reprinted tale from Skywald's Tender Love Stories #1 (1971).

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Lost Love FALLING IN LOVE "I Found My Love at the WoodStock Festival!"

When We Ran Last Week's Never-Reprinted Lost Love Story Set at Woodstock...

...we had no idea there was a second, also never-reprinted tale...from DC, of all places!

(And this story came out months before the Marvel one!)

Penciled by Werner Roth, inked by Murphy Anderson, and scripted by...well, we don't know who wrote this rather saccharine story...it's nowhere near as "gritty" or realistic (if you can call any comic book tale "realistic") as the My Love piece we ran last week.
To offer a comparison...
The My Love creatives, Gary Friedrich and Gray Morrow were 28 and 38, respectively.
The Falling in Love creatives, Werner Roth and Murphy Anderson, were 50 and 46 at the time.
So we're looking at a differing generational point of view of those events between the two tales...and it really shows!

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Alex Toth Tales YOUNG ROMANCE "Searing Conclusion to Next Door to Love"

We Have Already Seen...

Coverart by Werner Roth (pencils), Vince Colletta (inks)

...actually, I'm going to let the writer do the synopsis!

BTW, if the story from DC's Young Romance #164 (1970) looks somewhat familiar to you, that's because we ran the re-edited, re-worked, re-titled reprint in DC's Young Love #114 (1975)

HERE!

Besides the usual "updating" modifications to hairstyles and fashions, two pages were cut from the story!

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