Romantic Story #95

Charlton's Romantic Story #95 brings the drama of a late-1960s beach party to vivid life, with cover art by Ernesto R. Garcia. The scene centers on a blonde young woman pulled close by a dark-haired young man as she protests his kiss, while onlookers — a girl and a guitar-strumming guy — watch from around a campfire, and another couple approaches along the shoreline in the background. A caption scrolls across the bottom teasing the featured story, "I Don't Want to Be Different," and the question of what unknown fate awaits the conflicted Wendie, described in a speech bubble as a "mixed-up kid" despite her normal appearance. Interior art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Colletta gives the heartfelt stories inside the same earnest energy that made Charlton's romance line such a warm fixture of the era.