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Publishers / DC / Girls' Love Stories (1949) / #40
40March-April 1956
$0.10

Girls' Love Stories #40

DC · March-April 1956 · on sale January 24, 1956

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Identification plate

Series
Girls' Love Stories (DC, 1949 series)
Issue
#40
Publication date
March-April 1956
Key date
March 1956
On-sale date
January 24, 1956
Indicia publisher
Signal Publishing Company
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Mask of Lovecover1pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Bernard Sachs; letters: Ira Schnapp
2Frightened Heart!comic story7
3Fools Fall in Love!comic story7
4End of a Dream!comic story7inks: Bernard Sachs
5-comic story0.67script: Julius Schwartz
6-statement of ownership0.33letters: typeset
7Look Pretty, Please!text article2pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
8Mask of Love!comic story8pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Bernard Sachs

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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Girls' Love Stories #1431969On eBay ›
Young Love #721969On eBay ›

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