Girls' Romances #117

This June 1966 entry in DC's long-running romance anthology wears its emotional stakes right on the cover, where a downcast blonde woman sits in the foreground while a man in a blue suit delivers a sharp reality check — "You think love guarantees happiness!… Well, honey, you've got a lot to learn!" — as a second young man in an orange plaid shirt looks on with quiet concern. John Rosenberger's cover art captures that particular mid-'60s tension between romantic idealism and harder truths with clean, expressive linework. Inside, Gene Colan brings his assured draftsmanship to "Girl in Trouble!," a story the cover promises explores what happens when loneliness gives way to desperation — the kind of emotionally honest storytelling that made Girls' Romances a staple of the era.