Time for Love #26

Charlton's Time for Love #26 captures the bittersweet heartache of early-1970s romance with a cover by Sal Gentile that fills the foreground with a tearful dark-haired young woman, a single tear on her cheek as she wonders in a thought bubble why she let him go — while behind her, a couple embraces in a scene that says everything about what she's lost. The story title "My Sister's Fiancé" hints at exactly the kind of tangled loyalties that made Charlton romance comics so irresistible, and the promise of all-new stories and art — plus a free David Cassidy pop-up poster tucked inside — makes this 1972 issue a genuine time capsule of the era's pop-culture heart.