Girl Comics
{{Short description|Two comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its forerunners}}
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Romance comics
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Superhero comics
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Timely Comics
Girl Confessions
Atlas Comics
(2010)
Marvel Comics
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October 1949 – August 1954
(2010)
May 2010 — September 2010
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35
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Stan Lee
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Sana Amanat
Rachel Pinnelas
Lauren Sankovitch
Jeanine Schaefer
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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.
Artist contributors to this series included John Buscema and Al Hartley in issue #1,{{gcdb series|id=639|title=Girl Comics (Marvel, Atlas
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The first four issues of Girl Comics were written as typical romance comics,{{cite book |title=Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics |author=Michelle Nolan |year=2008 |publisher=MarFarlane |page=67 |isbn=9781476604909 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndJ7BwAAQBAJ&q=%22girl+confessions%22+comics&pg=PA227 |access-date=30 April 2015}} valuing plot over character development.{{cite book |title=Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology |author=Matthew Pustz |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomberg Publishing USA |page=96 |isbn=9781441197573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tP2oAwAAQBAJ&q=%22girl+confessions%22+comics&pg=PA98 |access-date=30 April 2015}} Most narratives were recycled, not changing drastically between issues. Issues #5 through #12, however, adopted a new subtitle, Mystery, Adventure, Suspense! and featured plot-lines similar to those in Nancy Drew novels.
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| | 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 | October 1950 |
| | 6-9 | Mystery, Adventure, Suspense! | January/March/May/July 1951 |
| | 10 | The Deadly Double-Cross | September 1951 |
| | 11 | Love Stories | November 1951 |
| | 12 | BK, The Dark Hallway | January 1952 |
=''Girl Confessions''=
=Second series (2010)=
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The second Girl Comics was a three-issue limited series released as a part of Marvel's year-long Marvel Women project.{{cite news|title=The Lady Editors of Marvel Talk 'Girl Comics' [Girl Week] |author=Laura Hudson |url=http://comicsalliance.com/girl-comics-marvel-interview/ |work=Comics Alliance |date=1 March 2010 |access-date=30 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928060926/http://comicsalliance.com/girl-comics-marvel-interview/ |archive-date=28 September 2015}} Girl Comics was entirely written, colored, illustrated and lettered by female authors and artists. Sister titles published during this period under the Marvel Women project,[http://www.comics.org/brand/583/ Women of Marvel (brand)] at the Grand Comics Database included the limited series and one-shots Heralds, Black Widow, Namora, Lady Deadpool, and Her-oes. It ran three issues cover-dated May to September 2010.{{gcdb series|id=44869|title=Girl Comics (Marvel, 2010 series)}} The collection was originally conceived as a celebration of both the 30th anniversary of She-Hulk and the National Women's History Project.
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...."{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Richards |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24918 |title=Jeanine Schaefer on "Girl Comics" |publisher=Comic Book Resources |date=February 19, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110616231123/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24918 |archive-date = June 16, 2011 | url-status=live}} 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".
The 2010 series contains contributions from Devin K. Grayson, Louise Simonson, Amanda Conner, Jill Thompson, Trina Robbins, and Molly Crabapple, among others.{{cite web |first=Heidi |last=MacDonald |author-link=Heidi MacDonald |series=The Beat |url=http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/12/15/exclusive-marvel-announces-girl-comics/ |title=Exclusive: Marvel announces Girl Comics |work=Publishers Weekly |date=December 15, 2009 |access-date=April 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100430133853/http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/12/15/exclusive-marvel-announces-girl-comics/ |archive-date=April 30, 2010}}{{cite web|first=Brian |last=Truitt |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-03-01-girlcomics01_marvel_st_N.htm |title='Girl Comics' shines spotlight on female creators |work=USA Today |date=March 1, 2010 |access-date=May 12, 2010 |archive-date=October 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026005639/http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-03-01-girlcomics01_marvel_st_N.htm |url-status=live}} The 52-page first issue included stories of the male characters Nightcrawler, the Punisher, and Spider-Man in addition to stories of the superheroines She-Hulk, Venus, and Jean Grey.{{gcdb series|id=44869|title=Girl Comics (Marvel, 2010 Series)}} In addition, a two-page text article spotlighted Marvel Comics' Silver Age secretary and later independent comics publisher Flo Steinberg
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,[http://www.stephaniebuscema.com The Art of Stephanie Buscema] (official site). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080502054853/http://www.stephaniebuscema.com/ WebCite archive] whose work appeared in the first issue of the 1949 series.
References
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External links
- {{comicbookdb|type=title|id=25581|title=Girl Comics (1949)}}
- [https://www.atlastales.com/title/95 Girl Comics (1949)] at Atlas Tales
- {{comicbookdb|type=title|id=25582|title=Girl Confessions}}
- [https://www.atlastales.com/title/96 Girl Confessions] at Atlas Tales
- {{comicbookdb|type=title|id=27146|title=Girl Comics (2010)}}
- Zawisza, Doug. [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1955 Review: Girl Comics #1], Comic Book Resources, March 3, 2010
- McDonald, Amanda, and Jeff Marsick, [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/Best-Shots-Reviews-100308.html "Best Shots Comic Reviews"], Girl Comics #1 (two reviews), Newsarama, March 8, 2010
Category:Comics magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1949
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1952