Hollywood Romances #51

Charlton's Hollywood Romances #51 brings the glittering, complicated world of moviemaking to the romance comics page. Don Sherwood's cover art pulls you right onto a film set, where a blonde actress shares a charged on-screen kiss with a dark-haired leading man while a director and camera crew look on — and a clapperboard dated 9-6-69 grounds everything in that show-business atmosphere. A thought bubble hints that the line between performance and real feeling is dangerously thin, setting a perfectly bittersweet tone for "Empty Kisses and Broken Hearts.