Secret Romance #3

A charged love triangle plays out right on the cover of this 1969 Charlton romance title, with a dark-haired man in a suit clasping hands with a wide-eyed blonde woman — her thought bubble warning that he might die in her arms — while a red-haired woman looks on from the background, thinking she tried to keep them apart. José Luis García-López's cover art captures the breathless melodrama beautifully, all swirling speech bubbles and expressive faces that pull you straight into the drama. With the teaser "Only One Day of Ecstasy…" scrolled across the bottom and the interior story "David's Promise" waiting inside, Secret Romance #3 delivers exactly the kind of heart-tugging tension that made Charlton's romance line so appealing in its day.