My Own Romance #73

This January 1960 entry in Marvel's long-running romance anthology serves up emotional fireworks right on the cover, penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta: a couple locked in a passionate kiss while a woman in a green gown descends the staircase behind them, crying out "Harry!! My darling! How could you??" — the triangle spelled out in a single charged moment. The teaser copy asks "Suppose you were me, and a man had broken your heart — would you have done what I did??" pulling readers straight into the anguish, while a second story, "I Found My Heart's Desire," is promised inside. At just ten cents, My Own Romance #73 delivers the kind of glamorous heartbreak that made mid-century romance comics irresistible.