Girls' Love Stories #37

Few comics capture mid-1950s romantic longing quite like this October 1955 issue of Girls' Love Stories. The cover pulls you in immediately: a dark-haired young woman in a floral dress gazes upward with unmistakable yearning, her hand reaching toward a man in a white uniform while a naval vessel looms in the harbor behind them — the cover caption pleading, "Love, Don't Leave Me!" Promising "all new, true to life" stories including "Letter from an Unknown Love," this is heartfelt romance comics storytelling at its most earnest and affecting.