Comics have always interested me from childhood and girls comics were the "forbidden fruit" for more feminine boys such as sissies like me so whenever I had the chance to read them secretly I did even if they may of been a good few years old in with stuff for table top sales deemed surplus to requirements by a girl or her parents.
Diana was a high quality tabloid sized girls' comic published by D.C. Thomson and was very successful.
A slick 24 page glossy comic with 16 of its pages in full colour at a time when most comics were on newsprint with black and white interiors.
This is Diana, No.149, dated 25th December 1965, published on the 18th December of that year which has classy high quality seasonal cover.
Unfortunately, the stories inside the comic don't have a Christmas theme, but they do feature excellent artwork. Here's the penultimate episode of sci-fi strip The Pink Peril
Most girls comics had a higher proportion of "makes" with arts and crafts compared with boys comics and so this edition had some festive ones.
Like most British comics there was a 1965 Annual rather like the Beano had one that had 128 full colour pages and cost 8/6d.
Interestingly D C Thomson in an advertisement that their Dennis The Menace annual was aimed specifically at boys unlike the main Beano one.
This looks to me to be fine comic aimed at Junior Girls and those in the first few years of High School I'd of love to had read at the time.
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