Girls' Romances #58
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGirls' Romances #58 (March 1959) is a representative mid-run issue of what the Grand Comics Database identifies as DC's third romance anthology title — a line that, as Wikipedia documents, ran continuously for 160 issues from 1950 to 1971 and helped prove that non-superhero genres could sustain long-term commercial publishing at DC. The series as a whole holds a singular place in art history: Roy Lichtenstein drew directly from its pages when building his foundational Pop Art body of work in the early 1960s, collapsing the boundary between mass-market comics and gallery fine art in ways that permanently altered how critics and the public perceived the medium. Issue #58 contributed at least one story — 'Stranger to My Heart,' pencilled by series regular Win Mortimer — that was deemed strong enough to be reprinted and re-inked for a later DC anthology, confirming that individual issues carried work editors considered genuinely reusable. As one of the bimonthly installments produced during the period when DC's romance line was expanding to eight issues per year per title, it documents the systematic, industrious approach DC took to serving a female readership that mainstream comics historiography has historically undervalued.
In "Stranger to My Heart," Rhona finds unexpected connection with Danny, a boy from her hometown, when their paths cross in the city’s bustling streets. As their bond deepens, a painful misunderstanding threatens to pull them apart—when Danny learns of a past romantic entanglement, he begins to question Rhona’s honesty. But the truth behind the rumors may be far more complicated than it seems.
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Girls' Romances launched in February/March 1950 as DC's third entry into the romance genre pioneered by Simon and Kirby, and by 1959 it had settled into a stable production rhythm with a rotating pool of reliable Silver Age journeymen. The DC romance line at this period was editorially overseen by Jack Miller, with female editors including Zena Brody and Dorothy Woolfolk later contributing to the line's direction, according to the Wikipedia romance comics article. Win Mortimer, one of the confirmed pencillers on issue #58 content, was a steady contributor to the title across this era, as his credits surface repeatedly in GCD reprint records tied to this issue's stories. Scripts for the issue remain unattributed in current database records, which was typical for DC romance titles of the period, where writer credits were routinely omitted.
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- Cover date: March 1959 — placing it in DC's Silver Age romance output, published on a bimonthly-to-eight-times-yearly schedule the line had adopted by the late 1950s.
- Girls' Romances was DC's third romance anthology title, per the Grand Comics Database series notes, following Girls' Love Stories and Secret Hearts.
- The story 'Stranger to My Heart' is confirmed by GCD reprint records as originating in this issue (#58, March 1959), with pencils by Win Mortimer and inks by Vince Colletta.
- That story was later reprinted in Young Love #114, retitled and updated with re-inking to modernize hairstyles and other period-specific details — evidence that DC editors valued the original material enough to recycle it across titles.
- Win Mortimer was among the title's recurring artists; the broader series roster, documented on Wikipedia, also included Tony Abruzzo, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, John Romita Sr., Alex Toth, and George Tuska, with Nick Cardy contributing many covers.
- The Girls' Romances series as a whole became source material for several Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art paintings in the early 1960s — though the specific Lichtenstein-sourced issues are #78 ('In the Car,' 1963), #81, and #105, not #58.
- The issue carried a ten-cent cover price, standard for DC comics of 1959, and ran approximately 36 pages in the anthology format typical of the line.
- Writer credits for issue #58's stories are currently unattributed in the Grand Comics Database, consistent with DC's practice of omitting script credits on romance titles of this era.
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↩ Reprints Girls' Romances #7 (1951)
Reprinted in Heart to Heart Romance Library #17 (1959), Girls' Love Stories #134 (1968), Young Romance #153 (1968), Young Love #114 (1975)
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