Love Diary #10

Three interlocking vignettes of romance and heartache bloom across this 1960 Charlton gem, each framed by a wreath of roses: a red-haired woman and a police officer share a charged glance in "The Law Against Love," a dark-haired woman turns from a man lingering in a doorway, and a couple draw close together in "The Right to Love." Cover art by Sal Gentile, Joe Sinnott, and Charles Nicholas, inked by Vince Colletta and Dick Giordano, gives the whole composition a lush, dreamy warmth that perfectly captures mid-century romance comics at their most heartfelt.