Romantic Secrets #9

Charlton's Romantic Secrets #9 serves up the kind of tangled emotional drama that made 1956 romance comics irresistible — right there on Dick Giordano's cover, a man arrives with a bouquet of purple roses only to find his date on the phone, casually breaking their plans because "someone just dropped in." The look on that blonde woman in the pink dress says everything: cool, a little guilty, and utterly confident — a perfectly charged moment of romantic tension frozen in time. Inside, Joe Gill's writing pairs with the art of Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia on "The Crash!" for what promises to be another of Charlton's characteristically heartfelt confessional tales.