Secret Hearts #29

A moody seaside scene sets the emotional stakes for this 1955 DC romance issue, with a brooding man in a blue jacket and turtleneck striding away while a young woman in a vivid pink dress rushes toward him across the beach — her outstretched hand and his clenched fist saying everything the cover caption confirms: "Tomorrow Means Heartbreak!" The cover's quiet anguish is beautifully rendered by the pencil-and-ink team of Gil Kane and Joe Giella, capturing mid-1950s romance comics at their most dramatically charged. Inside, Bernard Sachs brings the same era's heartfelt sensibility to the story "Sweetheart for a Day!" — a title that promises all the bittersweet longing Secret Hearts fans loved.