Teen-Age Love #75

Charlton's Teen-Age Love #75 captures the bittersweet ache of young romance right on its cover, where a couple shares a passionate embrace on a busy street while two onlooking girls — one calling out that Larry is "fair game again" now that Anita is leaving for Nebraska — stir up the drama. Don Sherwood's cover art weaves together the street scene with close-up inset panels of a tearful Anita questioning whether Larry will forget her, and a final image of her crying, perfectly distilling that early-'70s heartache in bold, expressive linework. With a lead story titled "Wild Kisses" and interior art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia from writer Joe Gill, this 15-cent Charlton gem delivers the kind of earnest, emotionally charged romance storytelling that made the series a favorite.