Just Married #61

Charlton's Just Married #61 delivers a sun-soaked poolside drama right on its cover, where a blonde woman in a polka-dot bikini shares a close embrace with a man in a Hawaiian shirt while, just behind them, a dark-haired young man watches with visible tension and a red-haired woman in a blue bikini looks on — speech bubbles already hinting at jealousy and marital stakes. The teaser tagline "I'll Be a Modern Wife!" sets up the kind of emotionally charged romance that made this series a staple of 1968 Charlton romance comics. With interior work by Joe Gill, Bill Fraccio, and Tony Tallarico, and a cover rendered by Luis Avila, this issue is a vivid snapshot of the era's romantic anxieties dressed in bright summer colors.