Sweethearts #83

Charlton's Sweethearts #83 centers its cover on a striking featured story — "The Imaginary Boy" — where a young blonde woman in a red dress walks confidently forward while ghostly visions of a handsome young man swirl around her, as two skeptical onlookers whisper doubts about her dreamboat in speech bubbles below. Dick Giordano's clean, expressive linework gives the composition a real emotional charge, capturing both the romanticism and the social scrutiny that defined the best romance comics of 1965. Joe Gill's storytelling and Vince Colletta's inks round out an issue of Sweethearts that wears its heart very much on its sleeve.