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The following is a list of comic strips. Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the ...
The girls' comics trend took off in the latter half of the 1950s, with the long-running titles Bunty and Judy, as well as titles like Boyfriend and Princess, all debuting in the years 1956–1960. (British romance comics, marketed toward older teen girls and young women, also flourished from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Other than a few ...
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 pupil at Abbottswade Girls' School, Betty Woods would dearly love to have her own horse and spends her free time watching other girls ride. Her dream seems to come true when a wild horse appears on the grounds; naming him Copper, Betty sets about making him her own – despite her own lame leg.
While the comic was primarily read by working class girls, School Friend featured many so-called 'aspirational' stories depicting upper class activities; [25] few of those reading would ever experience boarding schools, holidays in Switzerland or even horse-riding personally but stories revolving around such activities were wildly popular.
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April 1: The Nero story De Hoed van Geeraard de Duivel is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Madam Pheip makes her debut. [2] April 8: Marc Sleen's Doris Dobbel makes its debut. [2] [5] April 14: The first issue of the British comics magazine Eagle is published. It will run (in two incarnations) until 1994.