CALLING ALL GIRLS, October 1960

[dochermes]

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[guidoc]

Gil Elvgreen cover?

[dochermes]

What an unexpected thought, I would not have expected it but it DOES look like Gil Elvgren! Not the subject matter I usually associate with him, but let me check into it.

[dochermes]

I can see where it's going to be difficult to concentrate on this project. Meanwhile, here's a Google page of Myrna Hensen posing for Gil (what a life!).https://www.google.com/search?q=myrna+hansen&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zlM5VaibFvX_sAS67YDADw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=768#tbm=isch&q=myrna+hansen+gilelvgren

[full_metal_ox]

I'm reminded of the now-legendary Halloween party where Dan DiCarlo and his wife met, and how her costume inspired him to create Josie and the Pussycats.

[rab62]

This same periodical once published a story by an author more commonly associated with another genre: the August 1949 issue of Calling All Girls included a short story titled "Poor Daddy" by one R. A. Heinlein. This story about a teenage girl, her naughty kid brother, and their exasperated parents was meant to be the first in a whole series. Heinlein wrote two more stories featuring the same family, and plotted out an additional four stories, in hopes they would be collected as a single volume in book form. But the additional stories didn't sell, so Heinlein's dream of becoming a noted girl's fiction author were dashed.

[zathras_ix]

Waste not, want not. Teen angst (and the accompanying sturm und drang) works just as well in science fiction as in mainstream pop lit. Hence Podkayne of Mars (1963) and, to a lesser extent, "The Menace From Earth" (1957).

[anonymous]

Ok I admit it I thought it said call girls.