Romantic Secrets #16

Charlton's Romantic Secrets #16 from June 1958 sets the mood immediately with a cover by Vince Colletta — a dark-haired young man in a red sweater drawing a golden-haired woman close beneath a glowing full moon and the trailing branches of a willow tree. The two are on the verge of a kiss, her hand raised gently between them, the soft blue sky lending the whole scene a dreamy, moonlit intimacy. With "Dream Girl!" among the stories waiting inside, this ten-cent package of thrilling love stories captures exactly the tender, heart-flutter feeling that made mid-century romance comics so irresistible.