I Love You #76

Charlton's long-running romance anthology returns with issue #76, its cover by Sal Gentile pulling readers straight into the emotional push-and-pull of mid-1960s love comics. Two figures share an intimate, nearly breathless moment — her vivid red lips parting, his face pressed close — while her thought bubble betrays the inner conflict: "I love him, but I've got to make him leave here!" That tension between heart and circumstance, teased by the cover story title "Love Grows in Strange Places," sets a bittersweet tone perfectly at home in Charlton's 12-cent December 1968 lineup.