Girls' Romances #47

Few covers in DC's romance line capture heartache quite so vividly as this one: a red-haired young woman leans anxiously over a rural mailbox while a brooding young man in a work jacket stands nearby, a speech bubble cutting straight to the bone — "He'll never write, Susan! He's forgotten you!" — with a US Mail truck winding away down a country road in the background. Tony Abruzzo's pencils and Bernard Sachs's inks give the scene a warm, naturalistic tenderness that feels genuinely felt rather than staged. For a dime in 1957, Girls' Romances #47 promised "love stories that could happen to you," and with the featured story "Love Doesn't Answer" on the cover, that promise hits close to home.