Teen Confessions #30

This Charlton romance title delivers all the bittersweet emotion the genre does best — the cover by Dick Giordano centers on a tearful young woman, eyes closed and cheeks wet, as a ghostly memory of a couple sharing a tender moment drifts behind her, his letterman jacket hinting at a high-school romance she can't quite let go. Her thought balloon — "I remember those days of love and joy… he kissed me… told me he loved me… but was it really love?" — sets the aching tone of the featured story, "Heartful of Doubt." With interior art by Art Cappello inked by Vince Colletta and a script from the prolific Joe Gill, this 1964 issue is a quietly affecting snapshot of teen heartache at its most earnest.