I Love You #104

Charlton's long-running romance anthology serves up another emotionally charged issue with a cover by Lucho Olivera that drops readers straight into heartbreak: a tearful blonde woman watches helplessly as her beau turns his attention to another girl, while a glamorous lineup of beauty-pageant contestants — sashes reading "Oregon," "Arizona State," and more — parade in the background. The cover caption says it all: "I had lost… not only the beauty contest but the man I loved… all for… 'My Broken Dream.'" With interior work from the reliable team of writer Joe Gill, artist Charles Nicholas, and inker Vince Alascia, this July 1973 issue promises the kind of earnest, bittersweet storytelling that made I Love You a Charlton staple.