Girls' Love Stories #139

DC's long-running romance anthology reaches issue #139 with a cover by Nick Cardy that captures the era's bittersweet mood perfectly — a red-haired young woman in a polka-dot bikini sits alone on a floral beach blanket, tears on her cheeks, while silhouetted couples stroll together against a bold orange sun in the background. The cover's plaintive tagline, "She's young… Beautiful… But Alone… WHY?", sets up the emotional stakes with the kind of directness that made 1968 romance comics so compelling. Inside, Ric Estrada brings his artwork to "The Only Man for Me!," promising the heartfelt storytelling that kept Girls' Love Stories a staple of DC's romance line.