Best Place to Sell Young Romance #170

Publisher: DC, 1971

About Young Romance #170

Dick Giordano cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Dick Giordano

Inks: Dick Giordano

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

STORY DETAILS

(10 Stories)

Title: Love Is a Swinger!

Characters: Michelle Moore; Dick Dayton; Sue; Lily Martin

Synopsis: Michelle is engaged to a wonderful guy, but feels his ring is an anchor dragging her down as she envisions their future. She takes off his ring and plans to give it back to him when he takes her to a discotheque one evening. Before she can tell him how she feels, she is stunned to see him get up and dance with the attractive singer playing there. She later catches him kissing Lily and realizes that she does love him now that she has lost him. But Dick had just been using Lily to try to forget Michelle when he had noticed she had taken his ring off.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Werner Roth

Inks: Vince Colletta

Notes: First appearance, The Swinger. Previous indexer thought the penciler was Ric Estrada.

Title: The Test of Time

Characters: Bob; Jim; Joan; Sue

Synopsis: Sue gets engaged and invites her brother to come for the weekend to reveal her big surprise. When Jim arrives, he has his own surprise as he is also engaged and arrives with his fiancee. They plan to have a two week celebration before their wedding, but before the two weeks are up Sue and Jim catch their partners kissing each other.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Tony Abruzzo

Inks: Bill Draut

Title: Will I See Him?

Characters: Lew Walker [Lew Colton]; Anne; Joan; Marla

Synopsis: After breaking up with Lew, Anne goes to Joan's party wondering if she will see him there.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Joe Gill

Pencils: John Celardo (signed)

Inks: Vince Colletta (signed)

Notes: Lew is referred to as Lew Walker in one panel and Lew Colton in another.

Title: Appointment with Heartbreak

Characters: Clay; Alice Ware; Anne; Howard Quentin

Synopsis: Clay has asked Anne to meet him in the park. She assumes he is going to tell her he doesn't love her anymore because she has learned that he has been seeing another girl almost every evening while she has been out of town on an extended business trip. As she approaches Clay's bench, she decides she is not ready to face him. She finds an outdoor restaurant where she tells her story to a sympathetic stranger.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Arthur Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: My Life for Yours!

Characters: Tad; Ellen

Synopsis: Tad meets Ellen in her greenhouse after being in South America for two years. They had been in love once, but his jealousy had driven them apart and ultimately resulted in her being seriously injured when she ran away from him one evening and into an approaching car. Now she walks with a slight limp and the scar on her face is practically invisible. Tad learns that she is happy with her plant business and, most of all, loves her little girl and husband.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Gene Colan

Inks: Gene Colan ?

Title: Love Me a Little

Characters: Andrew; Nina; Marge Jayson; Mr. Madison; Don

Synopsis: Marge easily makes conquests of men, but then loses interest in them. Instead of going to Miami again on vacation, she thinks about staying home this year but her friend convinces her to go, thinking that one of the men who swarm Marge will settle for her instead. At the Beachcomber Hotel, Marge is attracted to a man who seems impervious to her charms.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Notes: Some faces and hairstyles updated by Vince Colletta. Previous indexer credited Werner Roth with pencils.

Title: Rise, Love, Rise!

Characters: Lily Martin; Tommy; Marty

Synopsis: Hitchhiking after the events in "Love Is a Swinger!", Lily panics when she sees a broken bridge and forces the driver to stop. The bridge brings back memories of how Tommy died. They had dated for a long time, but Lily had changed while Tommy had not. After telling Tommy her feelings, he had raced off in his car and smashed through a detour barrier where was drowned in the river. Feeling guilty for Tommy's death, Lily had set off to find herself. She helps a singer overcome his fears to perform at a rock festival, then moves on.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Werner Roth

Inks: Vince Colletta

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