Teen-Age Love #79

Charlton's Teen-Age Love #79 captures the bittersweet tensions of early-'70s romance in a single charged image: a young couple locked in a kiss beside a campfire and a parked motorcycle, while the young man's thought bubble reveals a wrenching internal conflict — "I know Francine loves me, but I must make her break off!" The cover, penciled by David Mangiarotti and inked by José Luis García-López, frames the scene with warm, woodsy atmosphere that makes the emotional undercurrent all the more poignant. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Antonio Colmeiro deliver all-new stories, including "A Place for Crying," promising the heartfelt, melodramatic romance that made Charlton's love titles a guilty pleasure of the era.