Love Romances #104

This March 1963 Marvel romance gem captures a deliciously dramatic moment: a bright-eyed Diane beams with certainty that her beau loves her and marriage is inevitable, confiding in her red-haired girlfriend — while the man himself lurks in the doorway behind them, his thought balloon hinting at a heartbreak he's steeling himself to deliver. Jack Kirby's cover pencils and Vince Colletta's inks give the scene a polished emotional charge, wringing genuine tension from that gap between Diane's blissful confidence and what the reader can already sense is coming. At 12 cents, Love Romances #104 shows Marvel's romance line at its soap-opera best.