Young Love #86
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Two Faces of Liza!" from Young Love #86 (1971), a heartfelt tale unfolds as Linda's childhood crush on Nicky, the older boy next door, evolves into a complicated web of unspoken feelings and misunderstandings. With art by John Romita and Werner Roth, and inks by Romita, the story captures the quiet tension of first love and the painful distance between longing and connection. The cover by Don Heck and Tony DeZuniga perfectly frames the emotional stakes of a girl torn between memory and a future she’s not sure she deserves.
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As a little girl, Linda falls in love with Nicky, the older boy next door. Linda's sister, Rita, ridicules Linda and has her own designs on Nicky. As Linda grows up, Nicky tries to discourage her attentions, saying she isn't a little girl anymore. Eventually, he leaves town and Linda receives a letter from Nicky, telling her she should forget him. But Nicky is actually in love with Linda and just afraid he is stealing her chance of happiness with someone her own age. He comes back and proposes to Linda.
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