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Cover: Dick Giordano & Pat Masulli
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Romantic Story #75

Jan 1965 · Charlton · 0.12 USD
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The cover story "Beautiful, but Bored" follows a woman who was loved and admired as the queen of the ball and by a handsome man named Ray, yet remained unhappy despite her popularity and romantic attention. After Ray leaves and she encounters him again in uniform, she realizes she is no longer bored when he kisses her, and her heart is no longer empty. A separate story features young Dr. Landon and a man named Burke involved in a conflict over a woman, with one character attempting to retrieve a blue suitcase while another warns about "double-talk," though the full narrative context is not entirely clear from the visible pages. A third story titled "Slam" involves a baseball player named Johnny Cobb, a high school legend who becomes famous after signing a big-league contract, and interactions with a woman in a yellow dress and various other characters discussing his success and relationships.

Contains 3 stories
Beautiful But Bored
8 pp · Romance

A beautiful young woman bored by the endless parade of admirers finds herself genuinely captivated when she meets Ray at a military academy weekend — a connection so real it transforms everything she thought she wanted. But when Ray's letters stop coming after the weekend ends, she's forced to confront the heartache she's so carelessly caused others, until an unexpected reunion offers her a second chance at the love that finally makes her feel alive.

Doctor No More
10 pp · Medical, Romance

Dr. Landon struggles with mounting self-doubt after a series of medical setbacks—an unnecessary splenectomy, a patient's death he blames on his divided attention during an emergency plastic surgery on a young accident victim. When his colleague Dr. Burke confronts him about his crisis of confidence, Landon makes the irrevocable decision to resign from Metro General and abandon medicine altogether, leaving those closest to him reeling. Watch as the doctor who once saved lives must now decide whether walking away is truly the only answer to his guilt and shame.

The Lovely Lie
7 pp · Romance

Stuck in a dying coal town and caring for her ailing parents, a young woman has quietly harbored feelings for Johnny, a local boy who escaped to become a star ballplayer—but their childhood connection was lost to his fame and the crowds that surrounded him whenever he returned home. When Johnny unexpectedly seeks her out during a visit, their rekindled connection feels like a dream come true, though the townspeople refuse to believe her story, dismissing it as fantasy born from loneliness. Now caught between the life she's known and the possibility of something more, she must navigate the cruel doubt of her community while holding onto what might be slipping away.

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Full credits

writer Joe Gill
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano
cover pencils Pat Masulli

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