Sweetheart Diary #46

This Charlton romance gem from 1959 opens on a vivid, dramatic moment: a dark-haired young woman in a stunning red ball gown swoons with a breathless "Ohhhh!" while a photographer with his camera and a concerned young man rush to her side, crying "Catch her — she's fainting!" A diary entry in the corner sets the emotional stakes perfectly: "Modeling had always been my goal… but now I am famous and it means nothing… I would give it all up for — 'New Life, New Love!'" Dick Giordano's cover art captures that quintessential late-'50s romance comic tension — glamour, vulnerability, and the heart's yearning all wrapped up in one breathless scene.