Romantic Story #98

Charlton's Romantic Story #98 from 1969 delivers heartache in vivid color, with cover art by Ernesto R. Garcia depicting a blonde woman in a green dress looking on with quiet anguish as a man in a blue suit leans close to a dark-haired woman in pink — a party scene full of longing glances and unspoken tension. The cover caption spells out the emotional stakes perfectly: "He's kissing Betsie now… I'm the girl he once asked to marry him!" Interior art comes courtesy of Charles Nicholas and inker Vince Alascia, bringing the same emotional precision to the lead story, "Interrupted Kisses." A fine snapshot of Charlton's romance line at its most dramatically charged.