Love Diary #64

Charlton's Love Diary #64 arrives in January 1970 with a cover by Luis Avila that captures the bittersweet tension at the heart of so many romance comics: a glamorous young woman in a floral bikini and dark sunglasses stands apart, admired by onlookers and a suited man watching from a distance, while a diary entry beside her reads, "They all tell me I'm the greatest… but I don't want to be worshipped from afar — I want to be held in a man's arms and loved like any other woman." The featured story title, "Nobody Kisses a Goddess," says it all — beauty can be its own kind of loneliness. A lovely slice of early-'70s romance comics storytelling, with interiors by Charles Nicholas rounding out this heartfelt issue.