Heart Throbs #124

Few comics capture the bittersweet ache of 1970 quite like this issue of Heart Throbs, where the cover — penciled by Ric Estrada and inked by Vince Colletta — tells its story in a single, quietly devastating glance. A stylish blonde girl clutches a Jimi Hendrix Experience record to her chest, watching helplessly as the boy she loves roars away on a red motorcycle with a red-haired girl clinging to his back, her speech bubble admitting "I'm losing him because I couldn't be his kind of girl." DC's promise of a complete romance novel, "Love Stop! — Where Love and Heartbreak Meet," along with the additional story teaser "He Kissed Me… But Only in My Dreams!" makes this issue a generous, genuinely moving package for fans of romance comics at their most emotionally honest.