Young Romance #166

Young Romance #166 (On Sale: April 7, 1970) has a cover by persons unknown.

We begin with "Please, Please, Someone, Love Me" drawn by John Rosenberger. Next is "A Price on My Love" and then "Just No Good." We end with "Love Pass Me By" drawn by Ric Estrada and Vinny Colletta.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Girls' Love Stories #151

Girls' Love Stories #151 (On Sale: March 24, 1970) has a cover attributed by GCD to John Rosenberger, but is obviously the work of the great Nick Cardy.

This issue begins with our cover-story, "The Wrong Kind of Love" drawn by John Rosenberger and Vince Colletta. Next is "Love Thief" drawn by Joe Giella. We end with "Confessions, Episode 5" drawn by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Falling In Love #115

Falling In Love #115 (On Sale: March 17, 1970) has a cover attributed to Jay Scott Pike, but I personally don't see it but the inks by Vince Colletta could be why.

This issue begins with "First Love of My Life" drawn by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "Hold on to Your Dreams" inked by Vinny Colletta. We end with "Love is Where You Find It" penciled by Artie Saaf.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

Girls' Romances #148

Girls' Romances #148 (On Sale: February 24, 1970) has an absolutely beautiful cover by the great Nick Cardy.

This issue begins with "I Won't Fall in Love" drawn by Ric Estrada and Vince Colletta. Next is "My Nightmare Love Affair" drawn by John Rosenberger. We end with the transgendered romance (just kidding) "I Wish I Wasn't Born a Girl" inked by Vince Colletta.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

Girls' Love Stories #150

Girls' Love Stories #150 (On Sale: February 12, 1970) has a cover by. well, I don't know, but I know it is not by Nick Cardy as the GCD says.

This issue begins with "Confessions, Episode #4" drawn by John Rosenberger. Next is our cover-story, "Her Secret Shame" penciled by Tony Abruzzo. We end with "Wallflower" with the unusual art team of Wally Wood and Murphy Anderson. I don't know if I believe this credit, as I never heard of these two working together and Wood inked most of his own work. If anyone has this book, I would sure like to see some of these pages.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Girls' Love Stories #149

Girls' Love Stories #149 (On Sale: December 23, 1969) has a cover penciled by Ric Estrada. Some have this credited to Nick Cardy, but those people are on serious drugs.

This issue begins with our cover-story, "Forbidden Love," penciled by Ric Estrada. Next is "For Better or Worse" penciled by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "...But Only in My Dreams" penciled by Ric Estrada. We end with Confessions : "Episode 3" penciled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Girls' Romances #146

Girls' Romances #146 (On Sale: November 26, 1969) has a cover by Jay Scott Pike and Vinny Colletta.

We begin with "I'll Never Love Again" penciled by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "Beggar for Love" penciled by Jay Scott Pike. We end with our cover-story, "Girl with a Reputation," which was also penciled by Jay Scott Pike.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

Date With Debbi #7

Date With Debbi #7 (On Sale: November 25, 1969) has a cover by Henry Scarpelli.

We begin with Debbi in "The Pinch-Hitter" with pencils by John Rosenberger. Next is Debbi in "Double Trouble." The third Debbi story, "Dress Dilemma," is by Barbara Friedlander, Doug Crane and Henry Scarpelli. We end with an untitled Flowers story.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Girls' Love Stories #148

Girls' Love Stories #148 (On Sale: November 13, 1969) has a nice cover by Nick Cardy.

We begin with "My Double Love" inked by Vinny Colletta. Next is the cover-story, "Doormat for Love" penciled by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "The Stranger Next Door" penciled by Ric Estrada. We end with Confessions "Episode 2" also penciled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Young Romance #163

Young Romance #163 (On Sale: October 9, 1969) has a cover by Nick Cardy. This is pretty much the last decent cover this book will have as starting next issue Vince Colletta begins a long streak of butchering cover inks.

We begin with "Next Door to Love" drawn by Alex Toth and Ric Dano. I don't know anything about this Ric Dano guy, except that he would only ink three stories for DC and this is the first of them and that even without looking at the work I would bet this is a pen name for Dick Giordano. Next is "Blind Love" penciled by John Rosenberger. We end with "My Father, My Love" drawn by Ric Estrada and Vince Colletta. I didn't know DC was doing incest stories back then.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Secret Hearts #140

Secret Hearts #140 (On Sale: October 7, 1969) has a nicely done cover inked by Dick Giordano and penciled by, my guess is, Ric Estrada.

We begin with "Half a Heart" and "I Stole His Love Away" both by persons unknown. We end with "Lost in the Shadow of Love" which is penciled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Girls' Love Stories #147

Girls' Love Stories #147 (On Sale: September 25, 1969) has a poorly drawn and poorly colored cover by persons unknown.

They begin a new romance serial this issue with "Episode 1" of "Confessions" drawn by John Rosenberger. This is followed by "The Ugliest Girl in the World" penciled by Ric Estrada. We end with "Will the Real Prince Charming Please Stand Up?" also penciled by Ric Estrada.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Secret Hearts #139

Secret Hearts #139 (On Sale: August 19, 1969) has a cover at least inked by Dick Giordano and another great example of a through-the-legs shot, which I gotta say, I find sexy.

We began with "Not That Kind of Girl" inked by Vince Colletta. That is followed by "How Can I Tell Him the Truth?" penciled by Winslow Mortimer. We end with "Hide from Love" penciled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Girls' Love Stories #146

Girls' Love Stories #146 (On Sale: August 12, 1969) has a cover by George Tuska and Vinny Colletta.

We began with "Abandoned" penciled by Tony Abruzzo. That is followed by "Secret Love" inked by Bernard Sachs. We finish with "Which Love is Mine?" pencilled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Date With Debbi #5

Date With Debbi #5 (On Sale: July 17, 1969) has a cover by Samm Schwartz.

We begin with an untitled Debbi story drawn by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "Debbi Meets the Hawk" by Henry Boltinoff, John Rosenberger and Henry Scarpelli, which was reprinted in Best of DC #53. We next have Debbi in "Who's Flirting?" and we end with an untitled Flowers story drawn by L. Stuchkus and Frank McLaughlin.

This is the first DC work by L. Stuchkus who would do done more story in the next issue. In the early 1980s Stuchkus would work on a daily newspaper strip entitled Chip's Place. What other work Stuchkus did I do not know.

This is also the first DC work for Frank McLaughlin who would go on to ink more than 365 stories for DC in the next 26 years. McLaughlin is another of the Dick Giordano imports from Charlton, where McLaughlin got his start in comics.

He became Charlton's art director working under Giordano and worked on such books as Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Sun of Vulcan, The Fightin' Five and Sarge Steel, it is his co-creation of Judo Master with Joe Gill for which McLaughlin's stint at Charlton is remembered.
McLaughlin remained the art director at Charlton through 1972, despite also working for DC during this period.

Despite his skills as a penciler, Frank McLaughlin was only utilized as an inker at DC and besides his work on Date With Debbie and Debbi's Dates, he is mainly remembered for long stints on Action Comics Weekly, Flash, Batman, Detective Comics, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, the Justice League of America, Wonder Woman and World's Finest Comics. His last work at DC was on Batman: Shadow of the Bat #39 in 1995.

At Marvel McLaughlin inked Captain America, Captain Marvel and The Defenders. He also did articles and pencils and inks for Marvel's black and white The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.

Frank McLaughlin has also had a long career in newspaper strips. He was an assistant on The Heart of Juliet Jones. He also worked on Brenda Starr, Nancy and The World's Greatest Superheroes.

As an author he was written How to Draw Those Bodacious Bad Babes of Comics and How to Draw Monsters for Comics both with Mike Gold.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Girls' Romances #143

Girls' Romances #143 (On Sale: July 10, 1969) has a cover by John Rosenberger and Vinny Colletta.

We begin with "A Lock on My Heart" drawn by John Rosenberger and Vinny Colletta. That is followed by "The Matchmaker by Mail" penciled by Jay Scott Pike. Rounding out the issue is "Summer Heartbreak" from Heart Throbs #55 drawn by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

Secret Hearts #138

Secret Hearts #138 (On Sale: July 3, 1969) has a cover at least inked (and most likely penciled) by editor Dick Giordano.

We begin with "How to Lose the Man You Love" penciled by John Rosenberger. That is followed by a reprint from Secret Hearts #41 "Lonely Lovesong" inked by Bernard Sachs. We end with "Reach for Happiness, Episode 29".

Edited by Dick Giordano

Falling In Love #109

Falling In Love #109 (On Sale: June 17, 1969) has a cover inked by Vinny Colletta.

We begin with "Diary of a Love Thief" penciled by John Rosenberger. Next is "The Last Bridge to Romance" inked by Vinny Colletta. That is followed by "Only in My Dreams?" inked by Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Secret Hearts #36. We end with "I'll Never Forget That Day" by persons unknown.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

Debbi's Dates #3

Debbi's Dates #3 (On Sale: June 17, 1969) has a cover penciled by Samm Schwartz.

We begin with "Buddy Gets the Cake" drawn by John Rosenberger. That is followed by two more Debbi's Dates stories, "That's the Way the Rock Crumbles" and "When All the Votes Are Out" of which I have no information.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Young Romance #161

Young Romance #161 (On Sale: June 12, 1969) has a cover penciled by Arthur Peddy.

We begin with "Dance with Me, Darling" a reprint from Secret Hearts #38 inked by Bernard Sachs. Next is "Heartbreak" inked by Vinny Colletta. That is followed by "Teen-Age Queen of the Year" penciled by John Rosenberger. We end with "My First Love Was My Last Love" also penciled by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Joe Orlando.