Falling in Love #39

A romantic mix-up takes center stage on John Romita's cover for this December 1960 entry in DC's Falling in Love series, where a smiling young man in a purple jacket leans around a tree to take the hand of a brunette woman — while a blonde woman in the foreground, wearing a red rose, glances back with a complicated expression. The cover's speech bubble — "I knew it was you… even if you ARE wearing violets instead of the rose you said you'd wear!" — hints at the delicious tangle of mistaken identity and second-guessing that runs through romance comics of this era. Inside, artist Mike Sekowsky and inker Bernard Sachs bring you "Model for Heartbreak," making this a well-crafted package of mid-century romantic drama from National Romance Group.