With stories titles like “My Secret Sin”, Night of Retribution” and “My Brief Encounter”, Charlton’s Sweethearts series was a thrilling and lurid entry in the romance comic genre. Tales of love, longing, betrayal and desire abound and set the standard for romance comics. Sweethearts was originally published by Fawcett Comics and started with issue #68, picking up the numbering from where Captain Midnight ended. It has the notoriety of being the first romance comic published monthly. In 1954 Fawcett stopped publishing comics and Charlton picked up the title and some of the left over inventory stories. The first issue of the Charlton run was #122, where the Fawcett numbering had ended, then switched to number 23 the following issue. This book was compiled with the best images currently available. That stated, these comics are sixty years old. The best efforts have been made to make the pages as enjoyable as possible but not every panel is perfect and some