Girls' Love Stories was a comic book series published by DC Comics (yes, that DC Comics) that ran from 1949 to 1973. It is a romantic anthology series that, as the title suggests, is focused on girls and their relationships with their boyfriends.
The comic was one of DC's ways of branching out of the superhero genre during The Golden Age of Comic Books and is notably one of the first comic book titles aimed at girls, as well as DC's first romance title. Despite being published by DC, it is not connected to The DCU.
It should be noted that this has nothing to do with the Yuri Genre (which is also referred to as Girls' Love). This was published in the 1950s-1970s during the Comics Code age after all, so same-sex relationships were out of the question.
Girls' Love Stories provides examples of:
- Anthology Comic: Each issue consists of several stories focused on the female protagonists and their love lives with their boyfriends.
- Childhood Friends: Two of the protagonists — Angela and Cecil — are childhood friends, having met when they were kids and becoming close to the point of becoming like sisters by the time they're seventeen.
- Most Writers Are Male: Despite being a romance comic aimed at girls, the comics were mostly written by men (though one of the writers and editors — Zena Brody — was a women), leading to the male love interests getting just as, if not more screen time than the female protagonists.
