I Love You #82

Charlton's long-running romance anthology delivers another charged installment with issue #82, featuring cover art by Colmeiro that sets the dramatic stakes immediately: a masked couple share a passionate kiss at what appears to be a costume ball, while a stern older woman in green calls out — "Stop it, Emily! You can't possibly love him!" — as a suited man looks on from the background. That tension between forbidden feeling and outside disapproval is pure romance-comic gold, and it pairs beautifully with the featured story "A Gorgeous Hunk of Man," written by Joe Gill with art by Gutemberg Monteiro. At just fifteen cents in 1969, this was an irresistible slice of heartache and hope.