Time for Love #38

Charlton's Time for Love #38 brings its signature blend of romance and heartache to September 1974, with a cover by Art Cappello that pulls you right into the drama. A blonde young woman in a purple dress is swept up in the arms of a red-shirted man named Eliot against a moonlit desert backdrop, her speech bubble pleading "No! Eliot…stop…this is wrong! I'm a good girl!" — while a small inset portrait hints at a third figure complicating matters. Promising "a moving love story" titled "Paradise Now?" alongside interior art by A. Martinez and even a Find-a-Word puzzle page, this issue delivers the emotional push-and-pull that made Charlton romance comics a reliable guilty pleasure of the era.