Teen Confessions #39

Charlton's Teen Confessions serves up heartfelt romantic drama with this 1966 installment featuring "Lies About Love!" — a story framed right on the cover by the confession of a girl who promised herself to Steve before he joined the Marine Corps, yet finds herself drawn to other boys. The cover lays out her dilemma across three intimate panels: she's seen close with Ben, then clinging to George with a whispered "Hold me tight!", and finally sharing a kiss with a third young man as she breathes "Darling, kiss me!" — a triptych of romantic entanglement rendered with warmth by cover artists Pat Masulli and Dick Giordano. Interior work by Joe Gill and the Vince Colletta Studio promises the kind of emotionally charged storytelling that made Charlton's romance line a genuine staple of 1960s comics.