Romeo #28 December 1963

When the girls return from the Police Dance, they find their hidden Christmas presents gone—leaving Bett, Karen, Sherry, and Johnny puzzled, and Bill Winton just a little too calm.

Ann, tired of always being the one left behind while Betty enjoys her dates, ducks into a café on a rainy night seeking dry shelter. There, she meets Steve, a young man with a similar arrangement with his roommate, and the two find unexpected connection in the quiet hum of the downpour.

On Christmas Eve, a stranded artist takes shelter in a remote house, only to find a girl named Diana Haycroft downstairs—allegedly dead for a year—refusing to join the party above without Jimmy. When the guests confirm her demise, the mystery deepens as the storm rages and the line between memory and presence blurs.

Juliette Simpson finds herself stranded in the desert after being abandoned by jealous members of Sheik Abdul’s harem, while Hector races to find her—only to be pulled into a mysterious nuclear testing station where a distress signal points to a girl on a camel in the blast zone.