Just Married #35

Charlton's Just Married #35 from 1964 delivers the kind of emotionally charged romance drama the series did so well, and this cover — penciled by Dick Giordano and Pat Masulli and inked by Giordano — sets the tension up beautifully. A tearful red-haired young woman in the foreground pleads "Please believe me… I didn't know!" while surrounding faces whisper cruel judgments like "Nothing but a gangster's wife!" and a romantic couple kisses in the background, painting a portrait of a woman caught between love and a past she can't escape. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Sal Gentile (inked by Dick Giordano) bring that same emotional pull to "Girl With a Past," a story that promises heartbreak, scandal, and the complicated cost of love.