Love Romances #40

The cover of Love Romances #40 sets the scene with unmistakable mid-1950s drama: a glamorous blonde in a striking dark dress reclines coolly at a restaurant table while a dapper man in a suit leans attentively toward her — and a visibly stunned woman looks on in disbelief from behind. Vince Colletta's cover art captures every charged glance and raised eyebrow of that central question posed right on the cover: "What happens when a man falls under the spell of a Sophisticated Lady?" Atlas's promise of "Love Memoirs Taken From True Life" gives this 1954 ten-cent gem an irresistible air of romantic intrigue drawn straight from real heartbreak.