My Secret Life #45

A windswept blonde walks alone along a rocky shoreline beneath a brooding sky, a distant lighthouse piercing the coastal fog — while inset above, a tender, close embrace between her and a dark-haired man suggests the "strange and wonderful thing" teased in the cover's own caption. Charlton's My Secret Life #45 captures that bittersweet ache of romantic uncertainty with real atmosphere, courtesy of cover pencils by John Tartaglione and inks by Dick Giordano. The featured story "Out of the Fog" promises exactly the kind of emotionally charged drama that made this 1962 romance title such a reliable heart-tugger at 12 cents.