Girls' Romances #18

Few covers capture heartbreak quite like this January 1952 issue of Girls' Romances. A young woman in a blue dress sits at a desk, hand pressed to her cheek in stunned distress, while through a frosted glass door marked "Roy Mason" the shadowy silhouette of a couple embracing tells the whole painful story — punctuated by a speech bubble demanding Roy confess the truth before tonight's wedding. Featuring the story "Death of a Heart!," this DC romance title delivers the kind of emotional gut-punch that made the genre so compelling in 1952.