Heart Throbs #53

From DC's National Romance Group comes this quietly heartbreaking 1958 entry in the long-running Heart Throbs series, with a cover penciled by John Romita and inked by Bernard Sachs. In the foreground, a tearful young woman with auburn hair and a lilac headscarf watches helplessly as, beneath a canopy of autumn leaves, a dark-haired man and another woman embrace — the tagline "I Didn't Know I Loved Him!" capturing the bittersweet ache of the moment perfectly. At just a dime, this is vintage romance comics storytelling at its most emotionally direct.