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Publication information | |
Publisher | Hulton Press, Odhams Press, IPC |
Schedule | Weekly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | 2 November 1951 – 3 October 1964 |
No. of issues | 675 |
Editor(s) | Marcus Morris, Jean Crouch |
Girl was the name of two weekly comics magazines for girls in the United Kingdom.
The first and more well-known volume was published from 1951 to 1964. It was launched by Hulton Press on 2 November 1951 as a sister paper to the Eagle Girl was very much an educational magazine whose heroines, including those who got into scrapes, became involved in tales that had a moral substance. A considerable number of pages were also dedicated to real-life tales of heroic women in various fields.
A second volume of the series was published by IPC from 1981 to 1990, during which time Dreamer and Tammy were merged into it.[1]