Time for Love #16

Few Charlton romance covers hit quite this hard emotionally — a tearful young woman in black clutches a handkerchief beside a flower-draped casket, while a ghostly vision of a romantic kiss floats above her in bittersweet contrast. Jim Aparo's cover art for this 1970 issue captures that aching tension between love remembered and love lost, with the bold tagline "Love Lies Deep and Cold" leaving no doubt about the heartbreak waiting inside. With interior art by Gutemberg Monteiro and a story titled "Rich Girls Can Learn to Cry," this issue of Time for Love delivers the melodrama and genuine emotion that made Charlton's romance line a quiet standout of the era.