We begin with "Memories of Love" a Table of Contents written by Len Wein and drawn by Gray Morrow.
Our first story is "A Scent of Love... A Breath of Hate" drawn by Frank Langford. This is the third of four DC romance stories drawn by the British artist. Cliff meets suicidal Judy, who is clearly running away from a bad relationship, but he is determined to make her fall in love again. Unfortunately for Cliff, he succeeds. I say unfortunately because Judy is a loon, plain and simple. That they end up together in the end, is frightening. Nice artwork though; Langford was pretty good.
Next, we have another one-page Beauty on a Budget by Liz Berube.
We follow that with "Love Would Wait" drawn by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Falling in Love #71 (1964). When sister Lisa and her boyfriend Steve take Judy out on her 16th birthday, she falls for Steve. Every year, Steve, who is on the road most of the year, returns to take Judy out on her birthday, but he is always with her sister Lisa. Finally, one year, as Steve left, he asked Lisa to let him know if she finds another and he will not return the next year. Lisa starts dating Philip and decides to dump Steve. She writes him a letter and gives it to Judy to mail, but she does not, as she wants Steve to return.
Things get serious between Lisa and Philip and they become engaged. As preparation for the wedding begins, Steve returns. Judy lets him know about Lisa and the letter she never mailed and Steve says he would have returned anyway, as the reason he asked Lisa to be sure about him was he was falling in love with Judy.
Next is a one-page article illustrated by John Celardo entitled "The Aquarius Woman."
This issue ends with "No Home for My Heart" drawn by Winslow Mortimer and Jack Abel. Julie is on the train home from Hollywood where she went to make it in movies. A man is staring at her on the train, but she ignores him, trapped in her thoughts of the Hollywood casting couch she has been trying to avoid. Each of her auditions ended with the director hitting on her and her leaving before anything happened, but in her letters home she bragged about how she was getting breaks and making it big.
When she returns to her hometown, her parents tell her how they have been bragging about her to their friends and she is bombarded by a long line of suiters, all of whom make a move on her, having heard of her success in Hollywood and knowing how things work there, they assume she is "easy." Unable to stand it at home, she decides to return to Hollywood.
While waiting for the train, she once again sees the strange man who was staring at her on the ride in, and he confesses that he was witness to her leaving a few of her "auditions" and had fallen for her. The two of them decide to go off together to try and make it in New York.
Edited by Dick Giordano.
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