Teen-Age Love #84

Charlton's Teen-Age Love #84 from 1972 brings the era's romantic drama to vivid life on a cover by José Luis García-López, depicting Mimi caught between two worlds — a tearful close-up in the foreground as she watches a long-haired biker rumble past on his motorcycle with a girl clinging behind him, while a cool, stylish young woman looks on from the sidewalk. The cover blurb promises that Mimi is "Riding the Wind" with Stud and the Wild Bunch, but that her true love Clete will figure into the reckoning. As a sweet bonus, a free full-figure portrait poster of David Cassidy is tucked inside — very much a sign of the times at just 20 cents.