Girls' Romances #64

This November 1959 entry in DC's Girls' Romances series delivers heartache with real elegance, thanks to cover art penciled by Tony Abruzzo and inked by Bernard Sachs. The cover draws your eye immediately to a tearful blonde woman in pearls and a floral lace dress, her gloved hand raised to her cheek as she looks away — while in the background, a young man pleads earnestly with another woman, his words captured in the bubble: "But, Jen — I've GOT to go through with it now!" The featured story, "Flowers for Farewell!," promises exactly the kind of bittersweet emotional drama that made romance comics an essential part of 1959 reading.