Girls' Romances #27

A rainy train platform sets the stage for heartache in this 1954 DC romance title, as a stylishly dressed young woman in a green plaid coat and matching hat clutches her umbrella while witnessing something clearly painful — in the background, a woman in red embraces a man in a yellow coat, with a shadowy onlooker nearby. The cover's teaser, "No Ticket for Romance," promises the kind of emotionally charged love triangle that made Girls' Romances a staple of mid-century comics. With stories billed as "love stories that could happen to you," issue #27 delivers that relatable romantic tension right from its very first glance.