You are purchasing the item pictured, framed. Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed. Just open box and hang it on the wall...makes a perfect gift!

If nothing else, formulaic titles like Hearth Throbs, a long-running romance anthology series that DC acquired from Quality Comics in 1953 served as a proving ground for artists who would one day go on to greater things. In this case, it's John Romita (often called John Romita Sr..) For most of the 1950s, Romita worked on a range of genre titles at Stan Lee's Atlas Comics. When that company went down in flames in 1957, Romita moved to DC, where for the next eight years he toiled almost exclusively on romance titles like this one, Girls' Love Stories and Secret Hearts. Romita would later describe his time spent cranking out melodramatic tales like Heart Throbs #93's A Date with Heartbreak - about a working class girl who falls for the scion of a wealthy family- as a terrible period of dullness

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