High School Confidential Diary #9

Charlton's teen romance anthology returns with this October 1961 issue bearing the tagline "Youth Yearning to Love" — and the cover by Joe Sinnott (pencils) and Vince Colletta (inks) captures that mood perfectly, showing a young woman reclining and reading a note while two attentive young men lean in around her, with a third fellow visible nearby and a small romantic vignette tucked into the lower corner. The teaser caption — "I Thought I Was Too Grown Up to Listen to Advice… I Was a Teen-Age Fool!" — sets up a story by writer Joe Gill and artist Joe Sinnott that promises heartfelt drama drawn straight from the high school experience. At still just a dime in 1961, this is a charming snapshot of Charlton's warmhearted approach to young-adult romance comics.