Reverie (C.38), made in 1965 for the 11 Pop Artists portfolio (Volume II) was among the most emotionally legible and carefully resolved of Lichtenstein's early figure prints.

The image showed a blonde woman singing into a microphone, her expression carrying what the comic-book codes of the image read as longing or sadness, the lyric "THE MELODY HAUNTS MY REVERIE..." — from Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust — appearing within the piece as text integrated with the image.

The use of music as subject matter was typical of Lichtenstein's reach into American popular culture in its broadest sense. The romantic ballad, the microphone, the performance of emotion through song: these were the materials of a mass entertainment culture that made as thoroughly coded an imagery as the comic book, and Lichtenstein treated them with the same close attention. The woman's face was built through Ben-Day dots on her skin, the dots giving a delicate, almost pointillist quality to the flesh tones in deliberate contrast to the solid blocks of her yellow hair and the solid blue background. The inclusion of the song lyric within the image was also typical of his working method.

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