Love Romances #98

This March 1962 issue of Love Romances wears its heartbreak proudly on a cover penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta — a dark-haired young woman clutches her head in anguish as a man in a blue suit walks out the door, while three inset panels of a red-haired friend deliver a chorus of pointed "I told you so" warnings. The featured story, "I'm Lost Without You!", is teased with the aching question "Has your heart ever cried out in the night?" — and the cover makes clear that the answer here is a very loud yes. Romance comics were hitting their emotional stride in 1962, and this issue delivers that bittersweet drama with Kirby's confident, expressive linework doing full justice to the genre.