Girls' Romances #145

DC's long-running romance anthology returns with issue #145, and the cover — penciled by Mike Sekowsky and inked by Dick Giordano — perfectly captures the bittersweet ache at the heart of the series. A tearful young woman dominates the foreground, her thoughts drifting bitterly toward the excited fans crowding a stage door behind her, with the thought bubbles reading "Go ahead, you foolish groupies, fall in love with him… and let him hurt you like he did me!" It's a richly emotional snapshot of heartbreak set against the unmistakable backdrop of 1969's pop-star frenzy, promising the kind of dramatic storytelling that made Girls' Romances a staple of the era.