Brides in Love #29

This April 1962 Charlton romance issue pulls you right into a moment of heartbreak, with a bride in a billowing white gown and veil rushing away from a church doorway while a young man in a blue tuxedo reaches out pleading, "Wait! Ellen, come back!" — her thought bubble revealing the anguished question, "How can I tell him I'm unworthy?" The cover pencils by Joe Sinnott and inks by Vince Colletta give the scene a polished emotional charge that was Charlton's romance line at its most compelling. Inside, Joe Gill's writing pairs with the art of Charles Nicholas and inker Vince Alascia for "One Last Good-Bye," a story that clearly matches the cover's promise of love caught in a moment of impossible choice.