Brides in Love #38

Charlton's Brides in Love #38 delivers a charged romantic triangle right on its cover, where a determined older man grips a blonde woman's shoulders on a park bench, pressing his case ("Don't be a fool, Rita! You must marry me…"), while she pulls away pleading that she loves someone named Hal — and that very someone, a younger man in a suit, looks on anxiously from the background. Dick Giordano's cover pencils and inks give the scene a polished, emotionally alive quality that perfectly sets up the featured story, "The Wrong Dream." Romance comics fans with a taste for heartfelt dilemmas will find this 1963 Charlton gem a satisfying read.