Just Married #51

Charlton's Just Married #51 delivers a quintessential 1967 romance-comics moment: a young couple locked in an embrace at center stage, while a blonde woman to the left wonders if he can't see she's not the right girl, and a suited young man to the right silently aches watching them together. The cover story title "Soon to Sorrow!" sets the bittersweet tone perfectly, and Dick Giordano's clean, expressive linework — both pencils and inks — captures that tangle of love, longing, and quiet heartbreak with real emotional pull. With Joe Gill writing and Art Cappello and Vince Colletta on interior art, this 12-cent gem is a warm time capsule of the era's romantic storytelling.