Moon Girl

    (E.C., 1947-1950)
™ and © William M. Gaines, Agent
Title begins as Moon Girl and the Prince, changes to A Moon, a Girl…Romance with issue #9, becomes Weird Fantasy (E.C.) with issue #13

EC Comics is rightly renowned for its groundbreaking line of science fiction and horror comics from the 1950s. But before they landed on the successful formula, they floundered around in search of a hit that would turn the moribund “Educational Comics” line into the dynamic “Entertaining Comics” that new publisher Bill Gaines envisioned. One early attempt was Moon Girl, a typical later Golden Age good-girl crimefighter book staring a well-endowed and scantly clad super-miss who got her powers from her moonstone amulet. Drawn by Golden Age great Shelly Moldoff, Moon Girl was above-average fare but the market for super-heroes was in deep decline. After issue #6, Moon Girl was inelegantly transformed into A Moon, A Girl…Romance, perhaps comics’ most absurd title change in an effort to get around US Postal regulations. With issue #13, it transformed again into the familiar EC science fiction series Weird Fantasy.
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