Love Diary #33

Love Diary #33 delivers the kind of romantic tension that made Charlton's romance line so compelling in 1964 — the cover, penciled by Pat Masulli and inked by Dick Giordano, lays it all out in two charged panels: a blonde woman clutching a bowling ball while a young man leans close, unaware she's being watched by a dark-haired woman in red, and on the right, that same dark-haired woman now in the company of two attentive men. The cover text frames the drama perfectly — a story of jealousy as a "Two-Edged Sword," where a fiancée discovers that the green-eyed monster cuts both ways. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Sal Gentile bring their own story, "The Riches of Love," to this winning package of mid-60s heartache and hope.