Girls' Love Stories #35

A coastal farewell sets the emotional stage for this June 1955 entry in DC's beloved romance anthology — a blonde woman and dark-haired man share an anguished near-kiss on the shoreline, her thought bubble whispering "Oh, my darling… I love you so much… but I'll never see you again…" while a lone figure rows away in a pink boat beneath a distant lighthouse. The bittersweet tension of the scene, rendered with cover inks by Bernard Sachs, perfectly captures the heartache that made Girls' Love Stories a staple of mid-1950s romance comics. With the featured story "This Time It's Goodbye!" promising plenty of longing, this issue delivers the kind of emotionally charged drama the series wore proudly on its tagline: True to Life!