Teen Confessions #21

Few comics capture early-1960s romantic tension quite like this Charlton gem, with cover art penciled and inked by Dick Giordano. The cover pulls the eye in two directions at once: a dark-haired young woman and a silver-haired man share an intimate, almost secretive moment in the foreground, while behind them a blonde woman in a red dress leans close to a young man, asking pointedly, "I hope your brother Danny behaved while we were away!" The tagline "Love Can Be Lost!" says it all — this 1963 issue promises the kind of heartfelt, tangled romance that made Teen Confessions a staple of the era.