Tender Love Stories #1
"My Kind of Music!" in Tender Love Stories #1 (1971) delivers a quietly poignant twist on romance and regret, following Joan as she grapples with a last-minute wedding cancellation and sets out on a bittersweet journey of her own design. With evocative art by Everett Kinstler and Ross Andru, and inks by Mike Esposito and Kinstler, the story unfolds with tender precision, capturing a moment of emotional crossroads. The cover by Don Heck and Joe Sinnott perfectly frames the quiet tension of a chance encounter that could change everything.
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On the day of her wedding, Joan receives a telegram telling her that her fiance couldn't go through with it and was leaving for Australia. Later, when Joan takes a vacation, she decides to do to a man what was done to her. She picks Dave as her target and they spend the following days doing everything together. The wedding date is set for the next day at the resort, but Joan leaves on the train that evening. She is having second thoughts about her plan and gets off at the next station. Then she bumps into Dave who had been executing the same plan she had, but had also had second thoughts.
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