Girls' Love Stories #95

A quintessential slice of early-1960s romantic drama from DC, this May 1963 issue of Girls' Love Stories features a cover by John Romita that crackles with social tension — a young usher announces available seats while a confident blonde woman in red turns to her visibly uneasy blonde companion in green, asking to "borrow" a man named Tony for the evening. The featured story, "Borrowed Heart — Borrowed Love!," promises exactly the kind of tangled affections the cover so vividly telegraphs, and the interior brings its own emotional weight with "My Longing Heart!" written and illustrated by Tony Abruzzo. Romance comics fans will find this issue a genuinely satisfying example of the genre at its most dramatically charged.