Heart Throbs #95

DC's long-running romance anthology delivers another emotionally charged installment with Heart Throbs #95, cover-dated May 1965. Win Mortimer's cover pulls you right into a movie or TV studio setting, where a tearful blonde woman in a yellow blouse wipes her eye as a young man in a green shirt looks on and an angry man in a red sweater strides toward her, snapping, "When I hired you to keep girls away from me, that included — yourself!" — while she confesses she never meant to fall in love. It's a perfectly distilled moment of tangled feelings and workplace romance gone complicated, setting the stage for Werner Roth and Bill Draut's interior story, "Destination — Heartbreak!