*Girls’ Comics: The most successful of the plethora of romance weeklies which launched in the 1950s, Romeo successfully adapted with the changing times, moving from nice girls in pearls to babes in beehives and bouffants, to mini-skirted maidens and belles in bell-bottoms as the decades rolled on, but always with the underlying ‘catch and match’ theme front and centre – no spinsters, feminists or committed career women allowed! Often beautifully illustrated by top talents, these are not commonplace – we speculate that the older girls and young women who they were aimed at didn’t tend to hoard things, discarding old copies after reading – and so we’re very pleased to have acquired this stash of just over 100 issues, commencing in January 1959 and running through until August 1974, one month before the series finally succumbed to changing times and was absorbed into Diana.
PICTURED: ROMEO 24/2/1968 FN £8