Young Romance
#155
(August-September 1968)
DC,
1963 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-06-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Love Is What It's All About! Part 2
comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You've been working too hard... Tonight I'm going to show you how the other half lives!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lynn Olin; Vince Sadek; Phil Riley
- Synopsis
- Lynn is engaged to a policeman, but on their wedding day he is killed saving a storekeeper during a hold-up.
- Reprints
-
in Romantic (Arédit-Artima, 1960 series) #39 (septembre 1969) [modified to fit digest size] -
in Super DC Giant (DC, 1970 series) #S-21 (January-February 1971)
-
- Keywords
- bowling; wedding dress
Indexer Notes
Story continues from the previous issue and concludes in the following issue.
His Ring Around My Finger!
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I just wanted to introduce myself, Johnny -- and congratulate you on your secret!
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Johnny; Nina; Bill; Joyce; Ben
- Synopsis
- Nina lies to Johnny about being engaged to Bill to get his attention. Then she lies to her roommate about being engaged to Johnny to keep from losing him to her attractive roommate like she had lost her previous boyfriend.
- Reprints
- from Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #52 (August 1962)
-
- Keywords
- swimming pool
He'll Break Your Heart!
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Sergio Aragonés (plot, breakdowns); ? (dialogue)
- Pencils
- Ric Estrada
- Inks
- Ric Estrada ?; Dick Giordano ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Which kiss will be our last? Which one will break my heart?
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Lillian Bolton; Jackie; Juan
- Synopsis
- On a two-month scholarship to Mexico, Lillian is warned that Juan is not the marrying kind, but she can't resist him.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Aztec pyramid; mariachi band; Mexico; Teotihuacan
Indexer Notes
Sergio Aragones wrote two romance stories on the same day. This was one of those, his first non-humor and first for DC comics, as revealed in Comic Book Artist #5 (Summer 1999).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[His Ring Around My Finger!]
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1.
Love Is What It's All About! Part 2
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2.
His Ring Around My Finger!
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3.
[no title indexed]
Laura Penn... Your Romance Reporter -
4.
He'll Break Your Heart!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Steve Belknap
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Edgar Loftin
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Mark Waid
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