Calling All Girls #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCalling All Girls #18 is a representative mid-run issue of Parents' Magazine Press's second revival of its long-running girls' anthology title, which itself carried forward numbering directly from Polly Pigtails magazine when that title was renamed in November 1955. As part of the only mainstream American periodical of its era to consistently blend comics storytelling, fiction, and lifestyle features specifically for tween and early-teen girls, each issue in this run occupies a small but genuine niche in the history of comics-inclusive children's publishing — a counterpoint to the superhero- and horror-dominated newsstand of the mid-1950s. The series as a whole, running from 1955 to 1966, represents one of the few sustained attempts by a major educational publisher to use sequential art as a vehicle for girls' biography, adventure, and aspiration during the Silver Age. No issue-specific first appearances or landmark narrative events for #18 have been documented in currently accessible sources.
"Calling All Girls" #18 is an anthology magazine featuring "Girls in the News," a photojournalistic section documenting real girls engaged in noteworthy activities, including Kathleen Parker helping her father paint an Indian sign, junior fencers demonstrating their skills in New York City, Marylynn Winkler tending to injured Air Force pilots in the mountains, and French African missionary girls recently released from internment. The issue also contains practical advice columns and features on gardening, fashion, and etiquette, including guidance on dating customs and a how-to on press-on mending tape for clothing repairs.
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The second incarnation of Calling All Girls launched in November 1955 as a direct continuation of Polly Pigtails magazine, inheriting its numbering at issue #15 and retaining the digest format (roughly 5.5" × 7.5", approximately 122 pages) that had defined Parents' Magazine Press's approach to youth publishing. Betty Sears edited the series throughout its run, maintaining a mixed format in which comic stories and cartoons accounted for a minority of each issue's page count alongside prose fiction, advice columns, and activity features. The title's parent company, Parents' Magazine Press, operated an unusually education-focused comics line from 1941 through the mid-1960s, encompassing titles such as True Comics and Children's Digest alongside Calling All Girls.
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- Published by Parents' Magazine Press as part of the 1955–1966 second series of Calling All Girls, with the series running 102 issues (#15–#116).
- The second series continued directly from Polly Pigtails magazine (Parents' Magazine Press, 1953 series), picking up at issue #15 in November 1955.
- Issue #18 was edited by Betty Sears, who served as editor across the series run.
- Physical format: digest-sized softcover, approximately 5.5" × 7.5", ~122 pages, primarily black-and-white interior.
- Each issue in the series was less than 50% comics content; the rest comprised prose stories, articles, and activity features aimed at tween and early-teen girls.
- Parents' Magazine Press published Calling All Girls as part of a broader educational comics line active from 1941 to the mid-1960s, which also included True Comics, Children's Digest, and Polly Pigtails.
- The series concluded in 1966, when it was replaced by Young Miss magazine.
- No issue-specific first appearances, notable creative credits, or documented landmark story events for issue #18 have been identified in accessible collector databases or comics history sources.
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