Just Married #45

Charlton's Just Married #45 (January 1966) captures all the breathless drama of romance comics at their most charged — a bride in white veil and bouquet walks the church aisle on the arm of a red-haired groom in a blue suit, while her thought balloon makes clear she's spotted someone named Tony among the wedding guests and is anything but at peace. The cover teases the story "Second Best," framing a triangle of old feelings and new commitments with the kind of elegant linework Dick Giordano brings to the pencils and inks. For just 12 cents, this Charlton gem — written by Joe Gill with inks by Jon D'Agostino on the interior — offers a wonderfully earnest snapshot of mid-'60s romance storytelling.