Just Married #40

This 1965 Charlton romance title captures the bittersweet ache of love with a cover by Dick Giordano showing two distinct emotional moments: a couple sharing a passionate kiss above, while below, a red-haired young woman lies on a bed lost in wistful thought, a framed photo nearby and a speech bubble hinting at emotional distance between her and a man named Dick Carter. The featured story, "Once Too Often," is teased with cover text describing someone who holds back from love — a tension that pulses through the whole composition. Writer Joe Gill and artist Hal Grauer (inked by Vince Colletta) bring the interior story "Born Jealous," making this a double dose of the romantic drama that made Just Married a staple of mid-sixties romance comics.