Love Romances #85

A wonderfully charged cover from Jack Kirby and inker Vince Colletta sets the emotional stakes for this 1960 entry in Marvel's Love Romances series — issue #85 of the "Girls in Love" anthology. The scene crackles with romantic tension: a determined young man in a striped suit pleads his case, a blonde woman in red pulls away with a broken heart, and a sharp-dressed onlooker in a leopard-print coat watches the drama unfold from a distance, each figure's speech balloon adding to the delicious soap-opera atmosphere. Inside, Stan Goldberg's colors, lettering by Artie Simek, and artwork from Matt Baker and Vince Colletta bring the featured story "The Man I Love!" and the promised tale of Diana Cummings — spotlighted on the cover as "I Learned About Love from Larry!" — to vivid, emotionally resonant life.