''The Trouble with Girls'' is an American

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published serially from 1987–1993 by

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, Comico, and

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. It was written by

Will Jacobs Will Jacobs (born 1955) is an American comics and humor writer. He was co-author with Gerard Jones on ''The Beaver Papers'', ''The Comic Book Heroes'', and the comic book '' The Trouble with Girls'' (1987–1993). He was a contributor to '' Nationa ...

and

Gerard Jones Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction work about American entertainment media, and his comic book scripting, which includes co-creating the superhero Prime for Malibu Comics, and writing for ...

, and drawn by Tim Hamilton and others. ''The Trouble with Girls'' is a satirical action series starring Lester Girls, who wants to be simply an "average guy" with a dead-end job, a plain wife, and no adventures more exciting than a good night's sleep. But Lester can't go for a drive without terrorists launching missiles at him, or walk into one of his many mansions without a beautiful, talented, curvaceous woman reposing half-dressed on his bed. Wealth, adventure, sexual magnetism, dashing good looks, and the savoir faire of a Hollywood action hero are what he calls "the curse of Girls". Hamilton's clean, linear art evokes classic superhero comics. In one four-page set piece, Apache Dick, a Girls analogue who loves the high life, launches an escape that starts with pole-vaulting the

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and ends with him crawling from the smoking wreckage of a kamikaze plane muttering only, "the bungalow".

Publication history

published volume one (#1–14 and Annual 1) in 1987 and 1988, the first six issues under its "Malibu Comics" imprint, and the remainder under its

imprint. In 1989, Comico launched volume two (#1–4), which then returned to Malibu and the "Eternity" imprint"Three Former Comico Titles Find New Homes", ''The Comics Journal'' #129 (May 1989), pp. 13–14: about ''Fish Police'', ''Trollords'', and ''The Trouble with Girls''; and ''The Maze Agency'', which had not yet found a new publisher. for issues 5–23 and a Christmas Special. During volume two's run, Malibu also brought out related ''Lester Girls'', ''Apache Dick'', ''Lizard Lady'', and ''Classic Girls'' (reprinting v1 #1–4) mini-series. In 1993,

published a four-issue ''Trouble with Girls''

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called ''The Trouble With Girls: Night of the Lizard'', with art by

Bret Blevins Bret Blevins (sometimes spelled Brett Blevins) (born August 13, 1960) is an American comics artist, animation storyboard artist, and painter. He is perhaps best known for his stint as the regular penciler of ''New Mutants'' for Marvel Comics. Ca ...

and

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, as well as a ''Lester Girls'' short story in its

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Annual.

Collected editions

The first fourteen issues of ''The Trouble with Girls'' were reissued in two volumes by Checker Book Publishing Group in 2006. Currently, ''The Trouble with Girls'' is available digitally exclusively through Devil's Due Digital.

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