(1949) October 1949 – August 1954 (2010) May 2010 — September 2010
No. of issues
(1949) 35 (2010) 3
Editor(s)
(1949) Stan Lee (2010) Sana Amanat Rachel Pinnelas Lauren Sankovitch Jeanine Schaefer
Girl Comics is the name of two comic-book series published by Marvel Comics and its forerunners, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. The first, debuting in 1949, ran 35 issues, changing its title to Girl Confessions with issue #13 (March 1952). The second was a three-issue limited series published in 2010.
Publication history
First series (1949–1954)
The initial Marvel Comics publication entitled Girl Comics was an ongoing romance comics/girls'-adventure series edited by Stan Lee that ran 12 issues (October 1949 - January 1952), first by Marvel's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and shortly afterward by the company's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. It was renamed Girl Confessions with issue #13 (March 1952) and ran a total 35 issues, through cover-date August 1954.
The first four issues of Girl Comics were written as typical romance comics,[6] valuing plot over character development.[7] Most narratives were recycled, not changing drastically between issues.[7] Issues #5 through #12, however, adopted a new subtitle, Mystery, Adventure, Suspense! and featured plot-lines similar to those in Nancy Drew novels.[6]
Issue
Title
Publication date
1
I Couldn't Escape From Love
October 1949
2
Blind Date
January 1950
3
Liz Taylor
April 1950
4
Borrowed Love
June 1950
5
The Man Who Followed, The Haunted Terror, The Death Plunge
The Way You Kiss, Martha's Man, The Lonely Night, Love Note
March 1953
25
Back Into His Arms
April 1953
26
The Man I Must Marry
June 1953
27
Grounds for Marriage"
August 1953
28
Love Me or Leave Me
September 1953
29
The Truth About Thelma Johnson
October 1953
30
Tall, Dark and Hands Off
January 1954
31
When the Real Thing Comes Along
February 1954
32
Schoolgirl Crush
March 1954
33
A Boy and a Girl
April 1954
34
Affair of the Heart
June 1954
35
Going Steady
August 1954
Second series (2010)
Girl Comics vol. 2, #1 (May 2010). Cover art by Amanda Conner.
The second Girl Comics was a three-issue limited series released as a part of Marvel's year-long Marvel Women project.[8]Girl Comics was entirely written, colored, illustrated and lettered by female authors and artists.[8] Sister titles published during this period under the Marvel Women project,[9] included the limited series and one-shotsHeralds, Black Widow, Namora, Lady Deadpool, and Her-oes.[10] It ran three issues cover-dated May to September 2010.[11] The collection was originally conceived as a celebration of both the 30th anniversary of She-Hulk and the National Women's History Project.[8]
Jeanine Schaefer, one of the editors, said of the initiative's timing: "Because 2010 is the 30th anniversary of the first appearance of She-Hulk, we got together to brainstorm some ideas for a celebration of women at Marvel Comics, much like we did for the 70th anniversary...."[12] She said the publisher felt the potentially controversial word "girl" in the title could be reclaimed: "It was one of the first titles we thought of (the actual first one, I think), because it pulled double-duty: Not only was it the name of an old Marvel romance title, it has a word in it that we could take back".[12]
Illustrator and cartoonist Stephanie Buscema, who penciled and inked the eight-page story featuring Venus, is a granddaughter of the major comics artist John Buscema,[15] whose work appeared in the first issue of the 1949 series.
