Confidential Diary #12

A tense romantic triangle plays out right on this Charlton cover, penciled by Dick Giordano and inked by Vince Colletta: a dark-haired young woman pleads "Ray… Ray, please let me go!" as a confident, leather-jacketed man corners her against a brick wall, while a second figure lingers watchfully in the background among the hedges. The teaser copy — "He was strong… oh, so strong… and this was… a lonely place!" — sets the stage perfectly for the drama inside, where Joe Gill's script and Giordano's art promise the kind of heartfelt, emotionally charged storytelling that made 1962 romance comics so compelling.