SEA LION PRESS

By Charles EP Murphy Art by Jim Eldridge, cover from Amazon marketplace In the beginning, there were just “comics”. Then, from the 1950s onwards, British publishers decided girls might buy more of them if it was aimed specifically at them, as they had with numerous story papers in the olden days – and so “boys comics” and “girls comics” were produced (with “humour comics” and “nursery comics” counted as their own separate fiefdoms). The girls’ comics outsold the boys’ comics