Welcome to Girls Comics of Yesterday. A fan site dedicated to British girl comics of the past, looking at three of the most long lasting publications of Bunty, Mandy and Judy.
These were all published by D.C. Thomson. The Bunty comic was the longest running publication, it ran from 18/01/1958 to 17/2/2001. It lasted 2249 issues as well as a short-lived monthly series. Judy started on 16/01/1960 and Mandy started on 21/01/1967. They lasted 1635 issues and 1269 issues respectively. In 1991, Mandy and Judy merged with each other and became known as M&J. M&J then merged with Bunty in 1995. Some of their long running strips included The Four Marys, Lorna Drake, The Comp, Luv Lisa, Penny’s Place, Wee Slavey, Junior Nanny, Angel, Valda and Nurses. Along with the weekly issues there were also Summer Specials, monthly Picture Story Library Books and Annuals published.
Latest Updates
14/05/12 Stories could often have vindictive and jealous characters and sometimes characters bordered on the psychotic as in: The Change in Claire
09/04/12 Post on Titanic ghost story: The Sailor Doll
14/03/12 Post on Bunty’s namesake character
28/02/12 I’ve been fairly busy last few weeks so not a lot of updates recently, but hope to do more regular posts again. Two new posts this week with a review of book “A History of Girls Comics” and post on story “Wish Upon a Star”
01/02/12 New post on picture story library book: Margie’s Magic Book A.K.A That Girl’s Me!
23/01/12 New post on Bunty story: “Letters of Hate”.
17/01/12 Two new posts on picture story library books; Framed! and The Third Wish.
04/01/12 Continuing with Christmas annuals: a post on the last Judy annual, Judy 1993.
Panel of the Week
Just for fun each week/month I am going to take an out of context panel from the comics. To see previous panels click on the panel of the week category.
14/05/12
