Heart Throbs #93

Two faces fill the cover in an intimate close-up as a young woman — eyes closed, thinking "He loves me, he loves me, he loves me…" — shares a kiss with a dark-haired man whose own thought betrays a secret: "How can I tell her — I will never see her again—!" The collision of her bliss and his hidden anguish makes this January 1964 DC romance issue quietly devastating before you've even opened the cover, rendered with graceful linework by John Romita. Inside, Tony Abruzzo brings the same emotional attentiveness to "An End to Waiting!" — making Heart Throbs #93 a fine example of DC's romance line at its most genuinely affecting.