Girls' Romances #139

DC Comics

United States

Published
March 1969
Page count
36
Cover price
0.12 USD
Colour
Colour
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/22608

Credits

Editing
Murray Boltinoff

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover How to Get Your Man Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Romance

Credits

Pencils
Dick Giordano ?
Inks
Dick Giordano
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Notes

Art credits from reprint. Cover art taken from splash page of last story in this issue

Show/hide 1. It's Over-- All Over! Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Genre
Romance

Credits

Pencils
Tony Abruzzo

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Love Song Romances (Colour Comics, 1959 series) #53 ([May 1969?])
It's Over—All Over!

Synopsis

Joan is crushed when her boyfriend Gil breaks up with her and isn't interested in dating anyone else. She reluctantly agrees to attend Gil's wedding, where she realizes that she is finally over him when she meets his new brother-in-law.

Notes

reprint retitled: "Come to My Wedding"

Show/hide 2. Untitled (Mad Mad Modes for Moderns) Illustration, 2 pages

Featuring

Feature
Mad Mad Modes for Moderns
Genre
Fashion

Credits

Pencils
Ric Estrada
Show/hide 3. A Searching Love! Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Genre
Romance

Credits

Pencils
Mike Sekowsky ?
Inks
Bernard Sachs
Editing
Phyllis Reed (original story)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #31 (December 1959)
A Searching Love!
Also printed
Australia
Magic Moment Romances (Colour Comics, 1957 series) #74 ([August 1969])
A Searching Love

Synopsis

On vacation in Italy, Vicky finds herself drawn to the little town where her former boyfriend Earl met another girl. She is surprised to find that Earl did not marry the other girl after all and is nowhere to be found -- until she returns home and finds him waiting to beg her forgiveness.

Show/hide 4. Untitled (Julia Roberts, Romance Counselor) Letters page, 0.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Julia Roberts, Romance Counselor

Credits

Script
Carol Fein ? [as Julia Roberts]
Pencils
Bob Oksner (logo illustration)
Inks
? (logo illustration)
Colours
? (logo illustration)
Letters
typeset

Notes

advice column

Show/hide 5. Untitled Statement of ownership, 0.33 pages

Credits

Letters
typeset

Notes

Statement of October 1, 1968

Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months: 178,115

Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date: 194,087

Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 575 Lexington Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly held corporation

Show/hide 6. Untitled (Mad Mod Modes for Moderns) Illustration, 2 pages

Featuring

Feature
Mad Mod Modes for Moderns
Genre
Fashion

Credits

Art
Jay Scott Pike
Show/hide 7. How to Get Your Man Comic story, 11 pages

Featuring

Genre
Romance

Credits

Pencils
Dick Giordano (p 1)
Win Mortimer ? (pp 2-11)
Inks
Dick Giordano (p 1)
Jack Abel (pp 2-11)

Synopsis

Eloise loses all her self-confidence after a bad breakup, and her friend Susan buys her a book titled "How to Get Your Man." But when the book's advice doesn't work, Eloise decides she doesn't need it after all.

Notes

reprint retitled: "Love Lessons"


Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 43314

Entry created

  • 29/12/2018

Index completed

  • 29/12/2018

Last updated

  • 29/12/2018