Love Romances #28

A cozy fireside embrace takes an awkward turn on Al Hartley's cover for this 1953 Atlas romance anthology — a blonde woman in red and her beau share a tender kiss by a crackling hearth, completely unaware that a young man in green has just walked in through the door behind them. Promising "Love Memoirs Taken from True Life," the issue spotlights the story "It Started with a Kiss from Martha," teased right on the cover alongside the interior tale "When a Heart Breaks!" Ten cents bought readers a warm, emotionally charged slice of mid-century romance drama.