*Girls’ Picture Libraries: IPC/Fleetway’s Love Story Library (later Love Story Picture Library, to distinguish it from the numerous all-text series), featured picture strip romances for young women (and nostalgic housewives), frequently beautifully illustrated. It ran a respectable 1500+ issues between 1952 and 1976, and our latest additions are all in the second hundred issues, 45 newly listed between #103 & #192. While copyright dates were not a legal requirement back then, we estimate these to date between 1954 and 1957. From a newsagent’s unsold stock, these would grade FN if not for the pernicious staple rust of long term storage, which, although not harming the stories themselves, is a little heavy in places, bringing most of these down to a GD grade, with a few a little better.
PICTURED: LOVE STORY LIBRARY
#130 GD/VG £4.50
#173 GD/VG £4.50