Teen-Age Love #28

A blue-haired young woman looks on with quiet anguish as, in the background, a couple shares a kiss on a park bench — her thought bubble reading "She took him away from me just as she said she would!" Dick Giordano's cover art captures that bittersweet pang of romantic rivalry with real emotional clarity, the warm colors and expressive faces doing all the storytelling work. Charlton's Teen-Age Love #28 also teases the story "Spin-Cycle" inside, making this 1962 issue a nicely packed slice of mid-century romance comics at their most heartfelt.