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Cover: Sy Barry & Bernard Sachs

Secret Hearts #53

Feb 1959 · DC · 0.10 USD
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“Portrait of an Unknown Girl!”

From DC's National Romance Group comes this February 1959 entry in the long-running Secret Hearts series, featuring cover art penciled by Sy Barry and inked by Bernard Sachs. The cover pulls you right into the emotional tension: two young men face off in an urgent, almost desperate confrontation in the foreground — one gripping the other's jacket — while a dark-haired woman watches anxiously from the rocks behind them, a quiet country cottage visible in the distance. The speech balloon says it all: "Don't tell her the truth! If you love her as much as I do — spare her this heartbreak!" — promising the kind of bittersweet romantic drama that made Secret Hearts a staple of 1950s romance comics, capped off by the featured story teaser "Dark Tomorrow!

artist Sy Barry · artist Mike Sekowsky · inker Bernard Sachs · inker George Roussos · letterer Ira Schnapp · cover Sy Barry, Bernard Sachs

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Full credits

artist Sy Barry
letterer Ira Schnapp
cover pencils Sy Barry
cover inks Bernard Sachs

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Dean is jealous of Maggie's love for Wes, especially because Wes treats her badly, but then he learns the secret reason for Wes's actions.

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