Girls' Love Stories #82

This November 1961 installment of DC's Girls' Love Stories delivers the kind of heartache the series does so well — a young woman in a yellow dress presses her hands to her face in visible distress, while just beyond a tree she can see a couple sharing a tender embrace, the cover caption asking pointedly, "How could he bring her to our special place?" John Romita's cover pencils and inks give the scene real emotional weight, capturing that particular sting of romantic betrayal with delicate, expressive linework. Inside, the featured story "Wait for Me!" promises more of the bittersweet drama that made this ten-cent anthology a staple of early '60s romance comics.