Plot:
In first story Willa Browne, tries to get a job at a department store selling perfume. She gets locked in at closing and to pass the time she tries on different dresses. The store’s managers see her on the security camera and think she would make a great model. The story follows her modeling career and becoming a successful model.
In the follow up now a fashion model, Willa had converted an old London bus into a boutique and with her friends, Ruth and Jane, had set off on a tour of France to give fashion shows in various towns.
Notes:
- Art: Douglas Perry
Appeared:
- Willa the Wisp – Bunty: #561 (12 October 1968) – #580 (22 February 1969)
- Willa the Wisp – Bunty: #1431 (15 June 1985) – #1448 (12 October 1985)
Other Appearances:
Annual Appearances:
- Willa the Wisp – Bunty Annual 1970 [Artist: Douglas Perry]
- Willa the Wisp – Bunty Annual 1987 [Artist: Douglas Perry]
Summer Specials:
- Willa the Wisp – Bunty Summer Special 1969 [Art: Douglas Perry]
These are two different stories. The first “Willa the Wisp” began in Bunty #561 (October 12, 1968) and ended in Bunty #580 (February 22,1969). It is about a tear-away Willa Browne. She tries to get a job at a department store selling perfume. She gets locked in at closing and to pass the time she tries on different dresses. The store’s managers see her on the security camera and think she would make a great model. The rest of the story is about her modeling and becoming a successful model. The second “Willa the Wisp” begins in Bunty #1431 (June 15, 1985) and ends in Bunty #1448 (October 12, 1985). It is the same Willa Browne now a successful model giving fashion shows in the old bus. Seventeen years seems a long time for a sequel, but I can’t find a reprint of the original.
Thanks Ronnie, I didn’t have all the issues to compare, with such a gap I assumed it was a reprint. Quite unusual!
I had assumed that it was a reprint also until I started writing down the issue dates and looked at the stories. I could not find a reprint of the original though and I looked back to the January 1981 issues.