Love Diary #28

This 1963 Charlton romance title captures the electric tension of a couple caught in a charged doorway moment — a young man in a dark jacket pulling a dark-haired woman in a white turtleneck close, their exchange captured in speech bubbles while a handwritten diary entry and the words "NOT FREE" loom over the scene, and a mysterious figure lingers in the shadowy background. The cover pencils by Sal Gentile and inks by Dick Giordano give the image a sleek, emotionally loaded quality that typifies Charlton's romance line at its most compelling. Inside, Joe Gill's writing and Joe Sinnott's art bring you "Arrogant, Conceited and Absolutely Divine" — a title that promises exactly the kind of complicated, heart-tugging drama this cover so effectively teases.