Love Diary #85

Charlton's Love Diary #85 arrives in 1973 with a cover by Art Cappello that captures pure emotional turmoil — a tearful young woman with flowing auburn hair clutches her face as a young man in the background urges her to leave, while she insists through her tears that Edward is alive and she can hear his voice. The tension between grief and desperate hope is written all over her face, making this one of those romance covers that genuinely pulls you in before you've read a single interior page. Inside, artist Charles Nicholas and inker Vince Alascia bring the drama to life in "Take a Letter, Darling," all for just twenty cents.