Love Diary #41

This 1965 Charlton romance issue pulls you right into the drama with a cover by Pat Masulli and Dick Giordano (inks by Giordano as well) that perfectly frames the tension of the featured story, "My Sister, My Enemy." A red-haired young woman in a pink blouse whispers to herself through a doorway while her dark-haired sister sits on a bed looking distressed — the speech bubbles hinting at romantic rivalry over a fellow named Jack. With Joe Gill writing and Bill Fraccio and Rocke Mastroserio handling the interior art, this 12-cent gem captures everything that made Charlton's romance line so compulsively readable in the mid-1960s.