New Romances #20
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains two stories. "Smart Talk" follows Golly, a woman whose friend Kathy advises her that losing weight through dieting will make her more attractive to men; Golly takes the advice seriously and successfully loses excess weight over several weeks, eventually catching the attention of a man named Sandy who had previously ignored her. In the second story, a woman named Arlene receives news that her ex-boyfriend David is coming to the city and will be visiting with friends; when David arrives with his fiancée, Arlene's jealousy and stubbornness create conflict, but after a tense confrontation, David's fiancée reveals she knows about Arlene and suggests they can all be friends, leading to a reconciliation.
A woman scorned by a faithless lover transforms herself into a heartbreaker, systematically using her charm and beauty to lure men into proposals she has no intention of accepting—until she meets Bern Gordon, a sophisticated magazine editor whose thoughtful nature and mysterious past threaten to crack the armor of vengeance she's so carefully built. As Lee Shawn discovers that Bern might be different from all the others, she faces an unexpected collision between her desire for revenge and the possibility of genuine connection.
Arlene thinks she always knows best, but when David's parents visit the city for the weekend, her relentless need to be right about everything—from directions to statues to where to buy flowers—begins to drive a wedge between them and threatens the relationship she's taken for granted. As the weekend spirals and David's mother grows increasingly cold toward her, Arlene discovers that being "Miss Right" about the facts might mean being all wrong when it comes to love.
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Reprinted in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] (2011)
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