Heart Throbs #82

DC's long-running romance anthology delivers a charged moment on this March 1963 cover penciled and inked by John Romita — a determined young man grabs a dark-haired woman named June by the shoulders, pleading "Look at me, June… and tell me that I'm just another guest on your engagement party list!" while a worried blonde woman looks on from the background. An elegant party invitation addressed to Miss June Latham and Mr. Bradford Taylor lies in the foreground, and a corner blurb promises the featured story "Empty Dreams." With "I Dreamed Alone!" also on the docket, Heart Throbs #82 offers the kind of tangled romantic tension that made DC's romance line such a compelling corner of 1963 comics.