Love Romances #61

Atlas Comics' Love Romances #61 (1956) captures the breathless uncertainty of mid-century romance right on its cover, where a smiling young man holds the hands of a hopeful blonde woman in a polka-dot outfit, while two rival young women look on enviously in the background. The cover taglines — "Would I Be… 'The Girl He'll Choose'?" and "I'm Yours!" — set up a delicious triangle of longing and rivalry, all rendered in Vince Colletta's clean, expressive linework. Inside, Ann Brewster brings her own assured pen to the interior art, making this a ten-cent package brimming with heartfelt mid-'50s drama.