Romantic Secrets #44

A moonlit roadside sets the scene on this Charlton romance gem from 1963, with cover art by Hal Grauer and Vince Colletta bringing the drama to life in cool blues and warm headlight glow. Two young women — Laura and her friend — stand beside their car debating whether a lone male driver passing in his own automobile will stop, his aloof expression suggesting he very much will not. The cover's teaser copy calls him "a cold, aloof man" caught up in an "Impossible Love," promising the kind of heartfelt, emotionally charged storytelling that made Charlton's romance line a genuine pleasure in the early 1960s.