Brides in Love #34

A wedding scene takes center stage on this February 1963 Charlton romance issue, with a bride and groom leaning in for a kiss before a church altar while a groomsman looks on — and in the corner, a tearful young blonde woman clutches a heart-shaped locket, her distress a sharp contrast to the ceremony's joy. The cover copy promises a story of lifelong dreams upended: "All my life I had dreamed of the wedding I would have one day… but the locket shattered my dream!" Penciled by Joe Sinnott and inked by Vince Colletta, this installment of Brides in Love delivers the tender heartache that made Charlton's romance line so compelling in the early sixties.