CAPTION: “Our love was dying! Jim had stopped showering me with gifts! In fact…I think he stopped showering at all! He was always too busy...rushing off to work…staying late…and coming home later. I knew he was having an affair! Oh, how had we come to this? In the beginning, everything had been so perfect! He’d buy me wonderful gifts! Flowers! Chocolate! Key issues of Silver Age comic books! And now…nothing! Surely, our love was doomed! Or so I thought, until…”

SCENE PANEL #1: Man's hand holding an engagement ring out to a crying young woman.

MAN: Surprise! I’ve been working extra hours to buy you...this!

WOMAN: An engagement ring? But I thought…

SCENE PANEL #2: Man puts engagement ring on the wedding ring finger of the woman.

MAN: Oh, honey! don't be silly! You don't have to think ever again! You're marrying me!

WOMAN: OH...Of course, darling! But still...I can’t help wondering…

“If we return this ring…can you image how many great comics we can buy?”

1958 Pencils: Dick Giordano Inks: Giordano or Vince Colletta Gift Exchange: John Lustig
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