Issue Details

Issue	#40
Published	April 1994
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	1.25 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Hildy Mesnik; Tom DeFalco, Editor-in-Chief

Cover Details

Characters	Barbie; Ken
Genre	humor; sitcom; working girl humor
Pencils	Amanda Conner
Inks	Jeff Albrecht

1 page credits "This Issue"

Pencils	interior scenes
Inks	interior scenes
Colors	interior scenes
Letters	typeset
Notes	illustrations from the two interior scenes

18 page Barbie story "Romance Forever"

Characters	Barbie; Skipper
Synopsis	Skipper needing to write a romantic play, reads "Romeo and Juliet", "Gone With the Wind", and "the Once and Future King".
Script	Trina Robbins
Pencils	Mary Wilshire
Inks	Trina Robbins
Colors	Maria Parwulski
Letters	George Roberts

2 page Barbie Presents biography (nonfictional) "Romantic Heroines Through History"

Characters	Helen of Troy; Scheherezade [as "Shererezade"]; Josephine Bonaparte; Lily Langtry
Genre	fact
Script	Trina Robbins
Pencils	Mary Wilshire
Inks	Trina Robbins
Colors	Maria Parwulski
Letters	George Roberts

1 page letters page "Letters To Barbie"

Script	Sara Mossoff?
Notes	Sara Mossoff is the "correspondence editor".