Campus Loves #2

This Quality Comics romance title pulls readers straight into the dizzy emotional world of college life, with a wide-eyed blonde co-ed pressing her hands to her temples as a chain of red hearts connects her to four admiring young men — a football player, a soldier, a cap-and-gown graduate, and a fresh-faced suitor — all hovering around her in lovestruck orbit. The cover copy for "They Said I Was Fast" sets a confessional, emotionally charged tone perfectly suited to the "pulsating tales of care-free lives and intimate loves" that Quality's romance line delivered so well in 1950. Bill Ward's crisp, expressive linework gives the heroine a glamorous, larger-than-life presence that makes this issue feel like a snapshot of postwar campus romance at its most dramatically heartfelt.