Girls' Love Stories was an American romance comic book magazine published by DC Comics in the United States. Started in 1949 as DC's first romance title, it ran for 180 issues,[1] ending with the Nov-Dec 1973 issue. The stories covered such topics as girls worrying about getting a man, or marrying out of pressure, not love. Some of the early covers were photographs. The book's initial tagline was "True to Life!"
Writers for the title included Bob Kanigher, George Kashdan and Steven Pineda. Notable artists for Girls' Love Stories included George Tuska,[2] Tony Abruzzo, Vince Colletta, Bill Draut, Frank Giacoia, Gil Kane, Bob Oksner, Art Peddy, Jay Scott Pike, John Romita Sr., Joe Rosen, John Rosenberger, Bernard Sachs, and Mike Sekowsky.
Editor Zena Brody began working on Girls' Love Stories in 1952.[3]
Images taken from Girls' Love Stories have been used in some of Roy Lichtenstein's work.[4]
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References
- Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels ABC-CLIO, 2010^
- Dewey Cassell, Aaron Sultan, Mike Gartland. The Art of George Tuska TwoMorrows Publishing, 2005-02-05^
- Bob Hughes. DC Timeline 1946-1955 DC Comics Artists, retrieved 2018-03-07^
- Garrett Holg. A peek inside the cold "Interiors of Lichtenstein Genius hangs in the unbalance at MCA retrospective Chicago Sun-Times, 18 July 1999, retrieved 12 March 2018^