Monthly Archives: August 2011

Four on the Freedom Trail

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Plot

IN the year 1940, Joan Clark was staying with her French relations, the Chapelles, in the Vosges district. Joan’s parents were on a scientific survey in the jungles of South America. War with Germany been declared the previous autumn, after Joan had begun her stay but in France there had been little fighting. While the Chapelles worried about the was, Joan and her cousin Monique were more preoccupied with the birth of a foal. But then the war comes closer to home whice leads Joan, Monique along with the mare Astra and foal, Orion on a long journey.

Notes

  • Art: Len Potts

Appeared

  • Four on the Freedom Trail – Mandy: #290 (5 August 1972) – #299 (7 October 1972)

And They Call her Sweet Little Sue!

Mandy, ,

Plot

Fourteen year old, Sue Mason was the only girl on the Bar M ranch in Wyoming. Her widowed father, Henry Mason, and her two strapping brothers, Sam and Luke, refused to admit she was growing up. They tried to protect her at all times, but in fact she was well able to look after herself AND them.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Berridge

Appeared

  • And They Call her Sweet Little Sue! – Mandy: circa #214 (20 February 1971) – (?)

The Voyage of Runaway Rose

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Plot

Wrongly accused of stealing a valuable jewel, Rose Hardy fled from her employer’s house in Sydney, Australia, when her story of a mysterious intruder was not believed. By accident, Rose found herself on board the Evening Star, a wool clipper bound for England. When discovered; Rose offered to work her passage—but a sinister-looking man, who called himself Dr Mallory, seemed to resent Rose’s presence on board, and Rose began to suspect that he was not a real doctor at all!

Notes

Appeared

  • The Voyage of Runaway Rose – Mandy: #314 (20 January 1973) – #322 (17 March 1973)

The Silver Stallion

Mandy

Plot

Lucy Lawson’s father was the new veterinary surgeon at the Welsh town of Derrycoed. During a visit to her friend’s hill farm she had encountered the legendary silver stallion, a handsome Arab horse which ran wild at the head of a herd of Welsh ponies. The stallion had injured a leg and Lucy had installed it in a cave, hoping to get her father to tend to its injury. But Lucy’s father announced that he had been given orders to destroy the stallion if it were ever captured

Notes

Appeared

  • The Silver Stallion  – Mandy: circa #829 (4 December 1982) – (?))

Fleet of the Fells

Mandy

Plot

Since the death of her parents, Gail Ridley had lived with her grand-father on his remote farm, high on the fells of Northern England. Though fond of Gail, Grandfather was a stern old man, increasingly troubled by attacks of rheumatism. Life was hard, and money was short.

Notes

Appeared

  • Fleet of the Fells – Mandy: #290 (5 August 1972) – #299 (7 October  1972)

“It’s My Turn Now!”

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Plot

When Jennie Weston’s parents discovered her twin sister, Julia who was thought to have been drowned as a baby, was actually alive and had been brought up in a Children’s Home, Jennie happily looked forward to sharing everything with her sister. But Julia seemed to have different ideas—she was out to grab all she could for herself—at Jennie’s expense!

Notes

  • Writer: Marion Turner (under pen-name: Fiona Turner)

Appeared

  • “It’s My Turn Now!” – Mandy: #825 (6 November 1982)– #838 (5 February 1983)

She Shall Have Music

Mandy, ,

Plot

Morna Richards was very fond of music, and  was delighted when a strange old woman gave her a lute. While playing the lute, Morna and a friend saw a flash of lightning and were mysteriously transported into medieval times. When they returned to modern times, the lute had changed into a fiddle!

Notes

  • Writer: Maureen Hartley

Appeared

  • She Shall Have Music – Mandy: #317 (10 February 1973)  – #328 (28 April 1973)

The Castaway Class

Mandy, ,

Plot

During the Second World War, after the ship in which they were on while escaping from Singapore was sunk by Japanese bombers, eight survivors reached a desert island. These were Miss Radcliffe, the head-mistress of a posh boarding school, six of her pupils, and a stowaway called Betty Smith. Betty was the only one of them with any idea how to survive away from civilisation. Miss Radcliffe—a stubborn, snobbish woman-took advantage of Betty and treated her as a servant. Several times Betty had the feeling that they were not the only ones on the island, and that they were being watched.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Castaway Class  – Mandy: #286 (8 July 1972) – #294 (2 September 1972)