Lovers #86

Atlas Comics' Lovers #86 brings the heartfelt drama of 1957 romance fiction to vivid life on a cover penciled and inked by Vince Colletta and Carl Burgos, showing a dark-haired young woman kneeling on the grass and pleading — "I love you! Can't you see... I love you!" — to a cool, letterman-jacketed young man who sits apart, unmoved. The featured story, "I Love an Ex-G.I.!", teases whether stubborn pride will stand between two people and the marriage they could have, while a second tale asks what a teenage girl should do about a high-school crush. Stan Lee writes and Jay Scott Pike illustrates the interior, making this a warmly emotional package that captures mid-fifties romance comics at their most earnest.