Girl Comics | |
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Photographic cover of Girl Comics #1 (Oct. 1949)
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Publication information | |
Publisher |
(1949) Timely Comics Girl Confessions Atlas Comics (2010) Marvel Comics |
Schedule |
(1949) Bi-monthly (2010) Monthly |
Format |
(1949) Ongoing series (2010) Limited series |
Genre |
(1949) Romance comics (2010) Superhero comics |
Publication date |
(1949) October 1949 – August 1954 (2010) May 2010— |
Number of issues |
(1949) 35 (2010) 1 (of 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.
The initial Marvel Comics publication entitled Girl Comics was an ongoing romance comics/girls'-adventure series edited by Stan Lee that ran 12 issues (Oct. 1949 - Jan. 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.
Artist contributors to this series included John Buscema and Al Hartley in issue #1,Bob Brown and Bill Everett in #3,Russ Heath in #5,Ann Brewster, Mike Esposito, and Dick Rockwell in #8, and Bernard Krigstein in #12. Contributors to multiple issues of Girl Confessions included Hartley, Jay Scott Pike, Morris Weiss, and Golden Age Batman artist Jerry Robinson.