Romantic Secrets #27

This June 1960 Charlton romance issue sets a tender mood right on its cover, where a dark-haired young man leans in to kiss a smiling blonde woman wearing a pearl necklace, autumn leaves drifting in the background behind them. The cover teases two stories inside, including "Not Made for Romance" and "One to Remember" — titles that promise the kind of bittersweet emotional drama that made the romance comics genre so compelling at the dawn of the sixties. At a dime a copy, Romantic Secrets #27 delivered heartfelt storytelling with writing by Joe Gill and art by Vince Colletta.