Girls' Romances #52

A moody twilight cityscape sets the stage on this 1958 DC romance gem, where a red-haired young woman in the foreground watches with evident heartache as a couple shares a tender moment in a horse-drawn carriage behind her. The cover tagline — "I discovered that you can't leave your heart behind — even on a 'Flight from Love!'" — perfectly captures the bittersweet emotional tug that made Girls' Romances a staple of mid-century romance comics. With cover art penciled by Sy Barry and inked by Vince Colletta, this issue promises the kind of relatable heartstring-pulling stories the series delivered under its banner of "Love Stories That Could Happen to YOU!