Heart Throbs #70

A triangle of longing plays out beautifully on John Romita's cover for this 1961 entry in DC's long-running romance anthology: a dark-haired woman leans close to a brooding man in a red jacket, her expression torn, while in the background a blonde woman in a wheelchair looks on — the caption promising a story where "there was no cure for love." The cover's teaser line, "He no longer pities her — he loves her… and not me!", sets up exactly the kind of emotionally charged romantic tension that made Heart Throbs a staple of the National Romance Group's lineup. At a still-just-a-dime cover price, issue #70 delivers the heartache and hope that kept readers coming back month after month.