Just Married #72

Charlton's Just Married #72 delivers a sun-drenched summer drama right on its cover, where a young woman named Roberta — in a yellow bikini and beaded necklace — firmly holds her ground against a man's accusation that she's a prude, firing back that she simply won't kiss anyone but her husband. Behind them, a blonde woman in a green bikini leans over a man relaxing in a lounge chair, neatly underlining the social tension at the heart of the scene. Cover artist Gustavo Trigo frames the whole standoff with breezy 1970 resort atmosphere, and the interior story "A Ruined Life" promises the kind of heartfelt romantic conflict that made Charlton's romance line a genuine guilty pleasure of the era.