Girls' Love Stories #78

From DC's National Romance Group comes this quietly devastating May 1961 installment of Girls' Love Stories, featuring a cover penciled and inked by John Romita. The image pulls you right in: a dark-haired young woman clutches a telephone receiver, tears on her cheeks, delivering the painful words "It's over between us, Tom… I don't want to see you again — ever!" while a blonde woman looks on from just behind her, her expression cool and unreadable. The featured story, "Surrender to Heartbreak," promises exactly the kind of emotionally charged romance that made this series a staple of early 1960s comics — all for a dime.