Plot

Lorna Drake, is a promising ballet dancer at the Thelma Mayne Dancing School. She doesn’t  always have the easiest time, especially when another student Marilyn Molton, becomes jealous of her. She later goes on to have many other adventures, such as when she when she has to dance in secret to help her father with his financial problems and when she pretends to be another person to substitute for her in a ballet.

Notes

• Art: Tony Thewenetti
• Art: Lino Jeva (Bunty Annual 1964)
• Appeared with the subtitle “on the lonely road of a ballerina”  for a long time before eventually dropping it and becoming the shorter “Lorna Drake”. That was followed by other stories with different titles.

Appeared

• Lorna Drake on the lonely road of a ballerina -Bunty: #138 (3 September 1960) – (?)
  • Reprinted – Bunty: #615 (25 October 1969) – #651 (4 July 1970) and Bunty #656 (8 August 1970) – (?)
• Lorna Drake – Bunty (?) – #243 (8 September 1962)
• The Phantom Ballerina – Bunty: #244 (15 September 1962) – #255 (1 December 1962)
• Lorna Drake Secret Dancer – Bunty: #256 (8 December 1962)- #268 (2 March 1963)
• Lorna Drake and the Lost Princess – Bunty: #269 (9 March 1963)- #276 (27 April 1963)
• The Double Life of Lorna Drake – Bunty: #277 (4 May 1963)- #281 (1 June 1963)
• Lorna Drake of the Royal Star Ballet – Bunty: #282 (8 June 1963)-  (?)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances:

• Lorna Drake – Film Star  – Bunty Annual 1964 [Artist: Lino Jeva]
• Lorna Drake and the Enchanted Flute – Bunty Annual 1965 [Artist: Tony Thewenetti]
• Lorna Drake and the China Ballerina – Bunty Annual 1966 [Artist: Tony Thewenetti]
• The Face That Did Not Fit- a Lorna Drake story – Bunty Annual 1976

Summer Specials:

• Lorna Drake – Secret Dancer – Bunty Summer Special 1965 [Art: Tony Thewenetti]

Picture Story Library:

• The Face in the Painting – Bunty Picture Story Library #03
• Lorna Drake and the Stowaway’s Secret – Bunty Picture Story Library #09
• Lorna Drake – Ballerina Behind Bars – Bunty Picture Story Library #12
• The Secret of the Six Gables – Bunty Picture Story Library #16
• Scarecrow of the School – Bunty Picture Story Library #21
• She Walked by Night – Bunty Picture Story Library #25
• Orphan Ballerina – Bunty Picture Story Library #37
• The Secret of the Doll’s House –  Bunty Picture Story Library #40