What comic book issue was the source for Roy Lichtenstein's 'Drowning Girl'?

Roy Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl was sourced from Secret Hearts #83.

More precisely, Lichtenstein adapted the splash page of “Run for Love!”, a story in DC Comics’ Secret Hearts #83, published in November 1962. The original illustration was drawn by Tony Abruzzo and lettered by Ira Schnapp.

Lichtenstein radically cropped the scene. In the comic, the girl’s boyfriend appears in the background clinging to an overturned boat; the painting removes him and concentrates on the woman, the waves and her thought balloon. Lichtenstein also changed details of the wording, including the boyfriend’s name and the original caption.

Drowning Girl was painted in 1963 and became one of Lichtenstein’s best-known examples of transforming commercial comic imagery into monumental fine art. Its hard outlines and simulated Ben-Day dots imitate mechanical printing, while the melodramatic text preserves the emotional intensity of the romance-comic source. Secret Hearts #83 also supplied imagery for another Lichtenstein painting, Hopeless.