Falling in Love #18

DC's Falling in Love #18 from April 1958 captures that particular ache of romantic regret with striking immediacy. The cover draws us close to a dark-haired young woman in profile — elegant in a yellow-scarved black top — her expression taut as she watches a young man and a red-haired woman sharing an intimate moment at a café table just beyond a window. A caption near the bottom drives the heartbreak home: "I knew it was a mistake to leave them alone…a mistake I'd pay for in tears and heartache at 'The End of a Love Affair!'" At a dime a copy, this issue delivers the emotional honesty that made DC's romance line a genuine comfort to readers navigating the complications of the heart in 1958.