Plot:

Lili Monette, grew up in the circus and is a skilled trick rider. Then after her mother dies in a tragic trapeze accident, the circus owner Max Maynard, wanted her to take her mother’s place doing the dangerous leap of death stunt. Maynard manipulates Lili, by promising to give her closest friend Pipo, the clown, his job back if she does the stunt. She does not know that he had got rid of Pipo in the first place by telling him if he stayed away from the circus he wouldn’t make Lili do the trapeze. Meanwhile the fortune teller foretells death in the cards, and her trapeze partner Felix tries to persuade Maynard not to go through with his plan.

Lili returns in a sequel Star of the Circus

Notes:

Appeared:

• Orphan of the Circus –  Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #21 (7 June 1958)
• Star of the Circus – Bunty: #23 (21 June 1958) – #36 (20 September 1958)