Love Diary #26

A young dark-haired woman in a green jacket and striped top stands at a seaside railing, the open water stretching behind her — her expression caught somewhere between longing and quiet hope. To her left, a lighthouse beam cuts through a moody, dramatic sky above the silhouettes of a couple, with the cover copy setting the emotional stakes plainly: "Loneliness… a desperate yearning to touch the hand of romance… please give me someone." Cover pencils by Sal Gentile and inks by Vince Colletta give the image a polished, emotionally resonant quality that made Charlton's romance line so appealing in 1963, and the interior story "A Pretty Face" promises the kind of heartfelt drama this series delivered month after month.