Girls' Romances #34

A wonderfully evocative slice of 1955 romance anxiety, Girls' Romances #34 presents a cover rich with emotional tension: a blonde young woman reclines on a curb, gazing up wistfully as a smiling young man strolls past with a dark-haired woman in a lavender dress on his arm. The cover caption — "Dick and I had been sweethearts since childhood… yet, through all the years, the fear haunted me that somehow… somewhere… I'd lose him!" — perfectly sets the bittersweet mood of the featured story, "My Love Is Not Mine!" Tony Abruzzo's artwork (with inks by Bernard Sachs) captures those yearning glances and stylish mid-decade fashions with the kind of gentle warmth that made DC's romance line so appealing to readers of the era.