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Comic Book Readers

orkin 1947

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Little girls read comics from the very beginning of their incarnation??

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“Girl reading comic book in newsstand” by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Comics are for everybody.  ❤

Trina Robbins wrote a couple of books and other writings on this very phenomenon—that girls were the original comic book geeks and it wasn’t until later that they were considered a primarily boy thing.