Just Married #88

Charlton's long-running romance series delivers another emotionally charged installment with this October 1972 issue, featuring a cover by Art Cappello that captures the heartache of newlywed insecurity in vivid style. A tearful blonde bride fills the foreground, her anguished blue eye glistening, while in the background her husband chats on the beach with two other women — a dark-haired girl and a confident redhead in a bikini — as the cover caption reads, "I should be the happiest girl in the world married to Clint, but there are… 'Too Many Girls!'" Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Nicholas Zann (inked by Vince Alascia) bring their practiced touch to "Happily Ever After," a story that clearly doesn't start out that way.