Romantic Story #43

Charlton's Romantic Story #43 (1959) wears its heart proudly on its cover, presenting a collage of tender and turbulent vignettes — a couple locked in an embrace, a woman's tearful close-up, and shadowy figures caught in charged moments — all promising the stories inside, including "A Good Impression," "Remembered Heartbreak," and "The Inner Light." The cover art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Colletta, inked by Vince Colletta and Sal Trapani, captures that bittersweet 1959 romance comics mood with warmth and polish. For a dime, readers were invited into what the cover itself calls "touching dramas of true love and heartbreak" — and that's a pretty hard offer to refuse.