Sweethearts #48

Charlton's Sweethearts #48 brings mid-century romantic drama right to a city sidewalk, where a dark-haired young woman clutches her scarf and turns away from a blond man in a suit, her speech bubble calling out his growing indifference to her ways, her clothes — and that scarf. Dick Giordano's cover art captures the charged tension between the two figures beautifully, with a yellow taxi and storefront adding just the right urban backdrop. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Vince Colletta deliver "The Scarf," teased on the cover as the story of a painted silk scarf that was "the key to the door of love" — all for a dime in 1959.