Love Diary #17

This Charlton romance gem from August 1961 sets a tender mood right from its cover, where a young woman in a yellow dress melts into an embrace with a young man beneath a warm umbrella of light, while an open diary in the foreground teases the story with the handwritten confession "Don't Speak of Love." A pen, a hand mirror, and a badminton racket scattered across the tabletop give the scene a charmingly personal, everyday intimacy — a peek into someone's private world of unexpected romance. Cover art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia, with interior work from the talented team of Joe Gill, Joe Sinnott, Vince Colletta, and Jon D'Agostino, makes this a delightful snapshot of early-'60s romance comics at their most heartfelt — and at a still-just-10-cents cover price, no less.