Love Romances #36

From Atlas Comics' Love Romances #36 (February 1954), this cover by John Tartaglione captures a swooning romantic moment — a dark-haired woman and a broad-shouldered man leaning into a kiss, her hands cradling his face as a lush bed of colorful flowers surrounds them. The cover caption sets the emotional stakes beautifully: "My heart is filled with song because I know at last that I'm… 'The Woman He Wants!'" Promising "love memoirs taken from true life," this is a warm slice of mid-century romance comics at their most heartfelt.