Issue Details

Issue	#69
Published	August-September 1968
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Jack Miller
Notes	This issue is the only squarebound 68-page DC romance comic. Artwork in some stories has been re-inked to change hairstyles and other details.

Cover Details

Genre	romance
Pencils	Dick Giordano
Inks	Dick Giordano ?
Letters	Gaspar Saladino

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

Synopsis	listing of stories in this issue
Letters	Gaspar Saladino ?

8 page story "Tears for a Dream!"

Synopsis	Ginger fears that her sister Jean is going to steal her boyfriend Roger as she has others in the past.
Genre	romance
Pencils	John Romita
Inks	Bernard Sachs ?
Editing	Larry Nadle (original story)
Reprinted	from Heart Throbs (DC, 1957 series) #85 (August-September 1963)

2 page Mad Mod Modes for Moderns illustration "Now is the time to take a good long critical look..."

Synopsis	hairstyle page
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Reprinted	from ?

8 page story "Heartbreak in Paradise!"

Synopsis	Ginny has read lots of books about how to attract a man, and she follows all the rules when she meets Les Harper. But though they share many interests and spend all their free time together, Les ends up resenting her for monopolizing him. Ginny takes some advice from his mother and backs off until he comes back to her.
Genre	romance
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Editing	Larry Nadle (original story)
Reprinted	from Secret Hearts (DC, 1949 series) #91 (October 1963)

8 page story "A Shoe for Cinderella!"

Synopsis	When rich Rory Maxwell pursues Mary Lou she can only remember the way he treated her when they were children and she thinks he's laughing at her all over again. He stops her from leaving town at the last minute by proposing marriage.
Genre	romance
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Editing	Phyllis Reed (original story)
Reprinted	from Secret Hearts (DC, 1949 series) #88 (June 1963)

2 page Mad Mod Modes for Moderns illustration "A thing of beauty is a joy forever!"

Synopsis	fashion pages
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Reprinted	from ?

7 page story "Moment of Truth!"

Synopsis	When Mary falls in love with Curtis, she doesn't know he was previously engaged to her late sister.
Genre	romance
Editing	Phyllis Reed (original story)
Reprinted	from Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #54 (November 1962)

8 page story "To Hide From Love!"

Synopsis	Paul and Leslie have an argument and separate but he never stops hoping she will return.
Genre	romance
Reprinted	from ?

2 page Mad Mod Modes for Moderns illustration "Entertaining at home?"

Synopsis	fashion pages
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Reprinted	from ?

8 page story "Forgive Me, Forget Me!"

Synopsis	Though she tries mightily to resist, Nola falls in love with Jack, but she has not told him that she is dying.
Genre	romance
Editing	Phyllis Reed (original story)
Reprinted	from Girls' Love Stories (DC, 1949 series) #74 (November 1960)

2 page Mad Mod Modes for Moderns illustration The Do's and Dont's of the fashion world..."

Synopsis	fashion pages
Pencils	Jay Scott Pike
Inks	Jay Scott Pike ?
Reprinted	from ?

7 page story "Curtain for a Heart!"

Synopsis	Producer Victor tells Brenda that she's all wrong for a role in the play he's casting because she has never been in love. She meets a younger man and finally begins to understand what love is, but learns that he has only been trying to get her to introduce him to her producer friend. Luckily, it turns out that Victor has been in love with her the whole time.
Genre	romance
Pencils	Bernard Sachs
Inks	Bernard Sachs
Editing	Phyllis Reed (original story)
Reprinted	from Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #54 (November 1962)