*Girls’ Comics: After the success of Eagle – which research showed to have quite a few ‘stealth’ readers of the distaff persuasion – a sister weekly was launched to tap into this market. Rather unimaginatively called ‘Girl’, the new weekly featured the same high-quality production standards as its elder brother, and the same stable of accomplished creators. These issues, mostly from Volumes 1 & 2, are fronted by cover stars, plucky schoolgirls ‘Wendy and Jinx’ and include the Christmas issue for 1952 and both Coronation issues from 1953. There are also two Free Gift issues from 1963, #6 & #8, although both gifts (Girl Star Dance Book and colour pictures of pop stars) are unfortunately stuck together and stuck to an interior page of #8. We daren’t try to prise them apart — we’ll leave that to the lucky buyer!
PICTURED: GIRL VOL 2 #9 VG £9.50 (Christmas issue)