Teen-Age Love #5

This Charlton romance gem from September 1958 captures the giddy tension of young love in a wonderfully evocative soda-fountain setting, where a dark-haired young woman in a red dress leans across the counter to steal a kiss from a bow-tied soda jerk, while a brooding young man in the foreground watches the scene unfold. Menu signs advertising Zombi Sundaes, Double-Dip Sodas, and High School Special Shakes fill the background with period-perfect charm, all rendered in Jon D'Agostino's clean, expressive cover art. With Joe Gill's writing and Vince Colletta's inking inside, this ten-cent slice of 1958 teenage romance has a warmth that's genuinely hard to resist.