Girls comics were full of bullying, blackmail and nasty girls. As evidenced in this interesting article: http://www.booksmonthly.co.uk/bully.html. So I thought I’d take a look at some of these, starting with two similar stories: Hateful Harriet Hateful Harriet– Bunty: #668 (31 Oct 1970) – # 677 (02 Jan 1971) Reprinted- Bunty: #1164 (03 May 1980) – #1173 … Continue reading Hateful Harriet \ “Be Nice to Nancy!”
Changing Places– Bunty: #1806 (22 August 1992) – #1820 (28 November 1992) Reprinted: Bunty #2210 (20 May 2000) – #2224 (26 August 2000) Plot Lady Anne Bannerman meets Anne Brown on the train to her new boarding school. The two hit it off so when Brown suggests that for a laugh they could switch places for … Continue reading Changing Places
A List of Articles and longer summaries/reviews of stories. Creators Alison Christie – DCT Writer Anne Bulcraig – DCT Writer Anthea Skiffington – DCT Writer Geoffrey West – Blue Jeans Writer Jim Eldridge – Artist John Armstrong Marion Turner – DCT Writer Maureen Hartley – Writing for DCT Girls’ Comics Peter Kay (Bruno Kleinzeller) Tracy … Continue reading Blog Posts
I like to discuss an annual around Christmas every year. This year instead of the regular girl’s comics I am looking at a nursery comic that was also aimed at girls; Twinkle. This was another comic published by DC Thomson and was marketed to pre-school girls. Often ads in Bunty and others would tell the … Continue reading Twinkle Annual 2003
In our eighth volume on Misty short stories we turn to the subject of ghosts, which, predictably, is huge. Owing to the expanse of the subject, there will be no individual thoughts for each story. However, the stories will be grouped into subthemes in accordance with the role the ghost served in the story, and … Continue reading Misty Short Stories VIII: Ghosts
Anyone who has read girls comics will be familiar with John Armstrong’s work. From his long run drawing for Bella at the Bar, strips in cult favorite comic Misty and a run of covers for Bunty in the 1990s, along with many other strips, he was a prominent contributor to girls comics. Sadly John passed … Continue reading John Armstrong
“I Must Find My Mum” – Bunty Picture Story Library #237 (1983) Reprinted as “I’ll Find My Mum” – Bunty Picture Story Library #402 (1995) Partial reworking of text story Cinderella of the Orphanage Artist: J. Badesa Plot In the text story “Cinderella of the Orphanage” Cindy Winters (renamed Waters in the psl) has grown up … Continue reading “I Must Find My Mum” / “I’ll Find My Mum”
In a follow-up to Lorrsadmin’s discussion of 15 of her favourite Misty short stories, I am going to discuss 10 of the Misty stories that have really stuck with me. Some of my favourite short stories, “Mr Walenski’s Secret”, “Don’t Look Now!”, “Room for One More”, “Fancy Another Jelly Baby?”, “Prisoner in the Attic” and … Continue reading Misty Short Stories II
All stories listed by start issue number. Using the arrows at the top of each column, you can also sort alphabetically by story name. The search box at the top also helps filter so you can enter just a particular year or story title. Note: In some cases issue start and end, does not mean … Continue reading Judy Stories
All stories listed by start issue number. Using the arrows at the top of each column, you can also sort alphabetically by story name, sort by issue start, issue end or year. The search box at the top also helps filter so you can enter just a particular year or story title. Click on story … Continue reading M&J Stories