Girls' Romances #39

A tender rural moment anchors this 1956 DC romance title, with a young woman in a red dress leaning in to steal a kiss from a dreaming young man resting against a tree — her whispered caption, "I'll never have another chance to kiss you, my darling…!" lending the scene a bittersweet urgency. Tony Abruzzo's pencils and Bernard Sachs's inks bring a soft, heartfelt warmth to the countryside setting, complete with a farmhouse and picnic basket in the background. Promising "love stories that could happen to you," this issue also features the story "A Kiss for a Dreamer," making Girls' Romances #39 a fine example of mid-1950s romance comics at their most genuinely affecting.