Calling All Girls
Total Issues: 89+18+13+111+=?
General magazine for teenage girls, subtitled "The Complete Magazine for
Teens, Debs & Co-eds" for part of its life. Published half a dozen
stories in each issue, including pieces by Robert Heinlein.
Issues & Index Sources
| Spring 1953 – Sep-1955, as Polly Pigtails' Magazine: | FictionMags Index | (sample issue only) |
| Oct-1955 – Oct-1966, as Calling All Girls | | |
| Nov-1966 – Jan/Feb-1986, as Young Miss | | |
| Mar-1986 – Dec-2004/Jan-2005, as YM Magazine | | |
Publishers
1941 – 1949: Calling All Girls, Inc., a subsidiary of Parents' Magazine, New York
1949 – 1951: Teen Institute, Inc., a subsidiary of Parents' Magazine, New York
1953 – 1962: "21" Publishing Corporation, a subsidiary of Parents' Magazine, Concord, NH
1962 – 1968: The Better Reading Foundation, New York
1968 – 1979: Parents' Magazine Press, Bergenfeld, NJ
1979 – ?: Parents' Magazine Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of Gruner & Jahr, U.S.A., Bergenfeld, NJ
Editors
1941 – 1947: Frances Ullmann
1947 – 1951: Claire Glass
1953 – 1963: Betty Sears
1963 – 1979: Rubie Saunders
1979 – 1980: Lois Cantwell
1980 – 1981: Suzanne Kennedy Flynn
1981: Faith Garrett Vosbrinck
1981 – ?: Phyllis Schneider
Formats
1941 – 1951: slick
1953 – 1981: digest
1981 – present: slick
Prices
in 1947: 15c
in 1949: 20c
Pagecounts
in 1947: 82pp
in 1949: 102pp
Frequency
monthly
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