Girl
Girl was the sister paper to Eagle, launched by the same team and with the same high production values, and it was the first quality weekly comic aimed at British girls.
Start with The Best of Girl
The wider medium · 6 entries
Girls' comics
This is the forgotten half of British comics history. For several decades, weekly comics aimed at girls were a huge business: at their peak, some of them outsold the boys' titles, and their stories of boarding schools, ballet, cruel foster parents and supernatural curses were read by millions. Writers such as Pat Mills and John Wagner learned their trade on them before building 2000 AD, and some of the strangest and darkest stories in British comics appeared in their pages. Rebellion's Treasury of British Comics is bringing them back into print, so some of these entries are history pages until the reprints arrive.
Bunty
Bunty ran for more than forty years, and its most famous strip, The Four Marys, followed four girls at a boarding school called St Elmo's for almost the entire run.
Start with Bunty for Girls: Classic Collection
Tammy
Tammy was IPC's answer to Bunty, and it was darker, more melodramatic and more willing to put its heroines through hell.
Start with Bella at the Bar, Book One
Jinty
Jinty was the girls' comic most given to science fiction, with stories about environmental disasters, dystopian futures, alien worlds and strange technologies, alongside the usual school…
Start with Fran of the Floods
Spellbound
Spellbound was DC Thomson's supernatural comic for girls, full of ghosts, curses, haunted houses and strange powers, and it ran for only 69 issues.
Start with Spellbound: Heritage Comics Presents
Misty
Pat Mills created Misty as a horror comic for girls, and it was as dark as anything he did for the boys.
Start with Misty, Volume 1: Moonchild & The Four Faces of Eve