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1. Hi, im trying to remember what the little comic story books I read as a child in the early 80s. They were A3 size, black and white and came out fortnightly or monthly? I can remember a possessed tree, a sabotaged fashion designer…there were loads! Any ideas? Thanks.

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   1. I do remember a complete story about a possessed oak tree in Tammy, somewhere 1981-2. It was called Hearts of Oak.

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      1. It sounds like you are talking about the picture story library books, although you said little then A3 size, think you may have meant A5 size?

         These complete stories came out about once a month, under a comic’s name (i.e. Bunty, Mandy) they were small and were about 64 pages. I’ve a list of various titles here: http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/picture-story-library/

         The possessed tree sounds like “Tree of Fear” (Debbie Picture Story Library #12 – reprinted Mandy PSL#253) Sorry I don’t have any pictures.

         The sabotaged fashion designer possibly “Fran in Fashion” here’s a picture: http://images.worldofrarebooks.co.uk/1395827708BRL_1.jpg

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   2. I have 82 bunty Judy and Mandy Pitcure books for sale from late 70 s to mid 80 s

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2. Does anyone know how i can offload a few tammy, debbie, tracey comics to someone who might appreciate them? They have definately seen better days but thats how i recieved them…?

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   1. You could donate them to the Media Studies department (Girls section) at Liverpool John Moores University. All story papers for girls are gratefully received there, and are exhaustively studied. My contacts there are lecturers Nickieanne Moody, who I spoke to just yesterday on a similar matter, and Val Stevenson, who will not be back for a week until term starts. Their telephone number is 0151 231 5175.

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      1. Just to alert you, Lorraine, it doesn’t seem to be possible to read your comments on two serials from Suzy, The Strange Tale Of Sara’s Snap Encounter, and Force Of Evil.

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         1. Strange, thanks for alerting me, I’ll look into it.

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            1. I’ve just checked again, Lorraine. The upright ‘I’ doesn’t change into a hand on those two titles, preventing access to your comments as a result. All the rest are fine.

3. Hi! Can anyone tell me wich girls comic had regular features in which one of the children carried around a dightful fairy doll. I adored that fairy doll

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   1. Any more details you can share about the story and around what years you would have been reading it?

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      1. There is Lucky’s Living Doll from June, but the doll wasn’t a fairy doll. So probably not.

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4. Does anybody else remember the Lindy comic that was launched on 21 June 1975 and merged with Jinty a few months later in November 1975. I was baffled by the decision to merge as I thought it was excellent.

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5. It’s not a comic I’ve read but it has been talked about on the Jinty site here: https://jintycomic.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/linda-2-28-june-1975/

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   1. The Terence Magee interview the blog entry is linked to has a discussion about Lindy.

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6. Trying to remember a story about a girl who was kidnapped and living in a bus can’t remember if it was bunty or tracy story

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   1. Have you any more details? If it’s possibly in Tracy, that would mean you would have read it in the 80s.

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      1. There was Slaves of the Hot Stove in Tammy. At one point in the story the kidnapped girls are transported in a sealed bus. And there was another story somewhere in DCT where girls get kidnapped and are travelling in a bus. Their kidnapper has green skin for some reason, which gets progressively lighter over the episodes because he’s dying. Was that Judy? Or Diana?

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         1. The green skinned kidnapper you are thinking of is from “Singing for the Green Stranger” in Diana
            http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2013/09/singing-for-the-green-stranger/

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            1. Thanks. And I now see the green guy is using a spaceship, not a bus, so that’s not the story. I don’t have a substantial Tracy collection but there are no kidnappings in buses in the ones I have.

7. I remember a story about a girl who is forced to work with a couple of thieves: their previous accomplice has died and the protagonist has to work as a servant by day while looking for valuables. At night they return to steal. Might have been set in Victorian / Edwardian times.

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   1. That sounds familiar, possibly Bunty story, do have a rough idea of what year it would have been published, that could help narrow it down.

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8. Does anyone remember an early (1967?) story (probably in Mandy) about a ballet company on the run through Europe during WW2? The protagonist was a teenage girl (Marina?) whose mother, also a ballet dancer, had been killed when the theatre at which she was performing was bombed. I can’t remember much more but at one point the dancers performed for nuns, who wash and mend their ballet costumes.

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   1. I don’t have a lot of early Mandy issues, so that is not a story that I have come across but I can check on other forums see if it rings a bell with anyone else.

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      1. Hi not have any luck so far, though think it may have appeared in a different publication like Bunty or Diana as some helpful people checked Mandy issues for 1967 and have not found it.

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         1. Thank you for checking (and the other people who did so). I know I started reading ‘Judy’ a year or so after ‘Mandy’ so will check those story lists too. If I find it, I shall let you know!

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9. Hello! My wife and I were just cleaning out an old stack of her family’s items and came across a “Bunty for Girls” hardback. Its had light green patterning on it, with a white background. The inside cover has the story of o little town or Bethlehem at the front and back. Other than that, I cant seem to find any dates, etc. It appears to have been a gift her her aunt from Scotland. Can anyone help me identify when it was printed? Thank you!

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   1. This is the 1962 Bunty Annual. Published probably around September/October 1961.

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10. Hi I thought I read a story called Daddy Long Legs first in the Diana comic or possibly Bunty or Judy. Can anyone confirm this for me? I know there is a book by Jean Webster but I always believed I had read this or similar in a comic of the early 1960’s.

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    1. It isn’t one I’ve come across, I don’t think it’s Judy as I have a lot of those early comics, I don’t have many Bunty or Diana from that era so it’s possible it’s one of those, sorry can’t be more help in this instance.

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11. Anyone help me track down a short story, probably early 1980s. A girl on a bike finds a creepy old house. Intrigued by the portraits of young women. The most recent looks just like a recently missing girl. Then she enters a dark corridor, follows two points of light and finds herself looking through the eye holes of a new portrait on the wall. Her own.

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    1. This is probably “The Portraits”, a picture strip story from Mandy Annual 1985.

       A girl new to the district investigates an old house. An old woman shows her a room full of portraits of young girls. The girl thinks she sees the eyes in the portraits move. Then she sees a picture which is blank except for two eye holes. She sees a button on the wall and presses it. A panel in the wall opens and the woman pushes her into a room beyond which is in total darkness apart from two shafts of lights. When she looks out through these, she finds they are the eye-holes of the blank picture. Another girl comes to the house and is shown the same room of portraits. She recognises one as looking like a girl who disappeared from the area recently. She then also sees a blank picture, presses a button, and ends up trapped behind one of the portraits in the same way as the first girl.

       Happy to provide a scan from the story if this would help identification.

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12. Already know I let the members know that around 60 pieces of mixed but mostly IPC original girls comic covers will be on sale next weekend at Anderson and Garland in Newcastle. All of the pieces came from my purchase of the IPC Archives! They are in surprising condition.

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13. Does anyone remember a story from Mandy or Bunty about a girl who wants to be a cook but her parents want her to be an athlete and send her to a sports school?

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    1. I’ve not seen this myself, but could this be the one?

       https://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2011/08/i-dont-want-to-be-a-champion/

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       1. Yes!

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