My Love #26

This November 1973 Marvel romance entry delivers the heartache and longing the series does so well, with a cover by Sal Buscema that pulls you right into the drama. A tearful blonde woman in red dominates the foreground, her thought bubble reading "He's leaving! I've lost him forever!" while in the background a man walks away as another dark-haired woman waves after him — and a smaller inset panel echoes the anguish with yet another distressed figure. Promising "Tales of Love That Could Be Yours," My Love #26 frames its lead story, "How Do I Love Thee?", with the kind of raw emotional stakes that made Marvel's romance line genuinely compelling reading in the early '70s.