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Magazine Issues

Girls' Companion at Home and at Play

Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources: 5-May-1908 – 18-Sep-1908

Publishers: R.V. Beverage; C.W. Bradley from ?
Frequency: weekly

Girls' Complete Story Novelette

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: 1931

Publishers: Gramol
Frequency: monthly

Girls' Crystal

Total Issues: 908

Entitled The Crystal, 1-9; Girls' Crystal, 10-908. Incorporates: School Girl's Weekly from 26-May-1939; Schoolgirl from 25-May-1940. Becomes Girls' Crystal (New Series) (comic).

Issues & Index Sources: 26-Oct-1935 – 14-Mar-1953

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   C. Eaton Fearn (who also wrote fiction for the paper as Gail Western)
Formats:   smaller format from 1940
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   28pp; 24pp
Frequency:   weekly

Girl's Detective Mysteries

Total Issues: 1

Companion to the short-lived Boy's Adventure Stories, this magazine folded after a single undistinguished issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1936:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Layne Publishing, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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The Girl's Favourite

Total Issues: 274

Issues & Index Sources

4-Feb-1922 – 27-May-1927

#incorporated into Eve's Own

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Prices

Pagecounts

24pp

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)

The Girl's Favourite

Girls' Friend

Total Issues: 1628

Incorporated: Our Girls from 27-Apr-1918; Forget Me Not from 1918

Issues & Index Sources

11-Nov-1899 – 24-Jan-1931

#incorporated into Poppy's Paper

Publishers

Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

c. 1900 – 1912: Hamilton Edwards [latterly editor-in-chief]
c. 1919: H. Crichton Miln [Assistant Editor]

Formats

tabloid

Prices

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

The Girls' Friend Library

Total Issues: 578

Issues & Index Sources

24-Nov-1906 – 3-Apr-1925

#becomes Girls' Friend Library (New Series)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Pagecounts

148pp

Frequency

monthly

Girls' Friend Library (New Series)

Total Issues: 728

Issues & Index Sources: May-1925 – Jun-1940

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Prices:   4d
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   monthly

Girls' Fun

Total Issues: 24

Incorporates: War Comics, Thrill Comics, Kiddyfun, 1947

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1946 – May-1948:

Story Paper Index

#becomes Girls' Fun (New Series)

Publishers

Gerald G. Swan

Pagecounts

12pp

Frequency

monthly

Girls' Fun Book

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1950:

Story Paper Index

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan

Girls' Fun Bumper Book

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1948

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan

Girls' Fun (New Series)

Total Issues: 30

Issues & Index Sources

May-1949 – Jan-1951:

Story Paper Index

#becomes Girls' Fun (Third Series)

Publishers

Gerald G. Swan

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

monthly; weekly between 7-Mar-1951 - 11-May-1951

Girls' Fun Special

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1950:

Story Paper Index

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan

Girls' Fun Special Number

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1949:

Story Paper Index

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan

Girls' Fun (Third Series)

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1952 – Dec-1954:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   monthly

Girls' Gossip

Total Issues: 89

Issues & Index Sources: 21-Apr-1902 – 28-Dec-1903

Publishers: Odhams Press
Frequency: weekly