Falling in Love #42

A dockside farewell charged with longing anchors this May 1961 entry in DC's Falling in Love series — a woman in a yellow coat clings to a man's embrace, pleading "Please tell me to stay… make me stay!" while the story blurb declares "Good-Bye Is Forever!" in the background, a uniformed sailor and onlookers watch from the ship's deck above, lending the scene real dramatic weight. The cover, penciled by John Romita and Mike Sekowsky and inked by Romita, captures that bittersweet moment of departure with expressive, polished linework that defined the best of early-'60s romance comics. Inside, Tony Abruzzo pencils and Bernard Sachs inks "Once and For All," promising the kind of heartfelt storytelling that made Falling in Love a staple of the National Romance Group.