Plot:
Anne Pryor’s happiness is shattered when her parents are killed in a car accident. She begun to settle in an orphanage, when a misunderstanding with the other girls causes them to think she told tales on a girl.
Notes:
- Art: Ted Rawlings
- This was Rawlings third strip for Bunty.
Appeared:
- Anne All-Alone – Bunty: #73 (06 June 1959) – #89 (26 September 1959)
- Reprinted – Bunty: #547 (6 July 1968) – #561 (12 October 1968)
I am trying to find a copy of the story ‘Anne All Alone’ in Bunty. I thought it was somewhere between 1965 – 1969 – going on my age. I remember this sad story of an orphan having a big impact on me as a young child. I vowed to rescue a child and make her happy. 50 ish years later I’m a foster mum and I would love to buy a copy of that original story. Can anyone help? Many thanks, Teresa
Teresa, I remember this story very well and I only read Bunty between 1968 and 1970 so it would have been between those years (probably 68 or 69 I would say). I also remember Anne went to live with a foster family and they had a blond girl called Julia Paton with blond curls and a spotted bow in her hair as I remember and she was horrid to Anne (the old jealousy theme).
30th Century Comics and the British library would be two places to look.
Hmm, we see a lot of stories where girls get bullied because others mistakenly accused them of sneaking, don’t we?
I have updated the correct issue numbers (73-89) it’s possible the story was reprinted in the 60s as often stories were but no confirmation on that. I looked up 30thcentury website and they don’t appear to have any of those issues at the moment but keep checking as they often update their catalogue.
I remember this story very well and I only read Bunty between 1968 and 1970 so it would have been between those years (probably 68 or 69 I would say). I also remember Anne went to live with a foster family and they had a blond girl called Julia Paton with blond curls and a spotted bow in her hair as I remember and she was horrid to Anne (the old jealousy theme).
Why has Kate’s post been printed twice?
Hello,
I’m still searching for the first story of Anne All Alone. I just wondered if a few years on there was any new news.
Many thanks,
Teresa
When you say ‘the first story’, Teresa, I take it that you are referring to the first instalment of ‘Anne All-Alone’, that appeared in issue 73 of BUNTY, which was published on June 6 1959? If so, please PM me your address today, so that I can post a photocopy of that 3-page instalment to you tomorrow morning.
Obviously I haven’t woken up properly this morning because I now realize that the Private Messaging system (PM) is only available on the ComicsUK site. Perhaps lorrsadmin could act as an intermediary because she certainly knows my address.
Thanks Derek. I’m happy to act as an intermediary. Also do you know if the story was reprinted in the mid/late 60s, that would match with when Teresa thinks she would have read it?
I appear to be replying to Teresa here, Lorraine, as there is no ‘Reply’ button to press in order to reply directly to your request for information about a repeat of ‘Anne All-Alone’ in the mid/late sixties. I’ve had to check this out and as a result I can report that there was a repeat that ran in BUNTY from 547 (July 6 1968) to 561 (October 12 1968). I do have all these issues, which are now on my desk. In case you, or anyone else for that matter, would like further information, I will not put them back in the 1968 pile until about 10 o’clock tonight. Over to you, or, if I’m to include Teresa as well, youse, which is the plural on Merseyside, where I lived for many a long year. When I was doing some supply teaching in a Liverpool school in the late sixties, there was an anecdote I was told about a teacher who got cross with a lad called Hughes, and when he said “Stand up, Hughes.”, every pupil in the classroom stood up!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Derek,
Thank you SO much. I can’t believe that after years and years I will be able to read it. That story put on my heart such a desire to adopt /foster. I have been fostering for 7 1/2 years now – which all leads back to Anne All Alone!
I am assuming, Teresa, that it is only the first episode of ‘Anne All-Alone’ that you are so keen to reread. I photocopied it this morning and posted it to lorrsadmin about an hour ago. Given that it is Friday, she may not receive it until Monday, but it is on the first lap of its journey to you, so with any luck you should have it by Wednesday at the latest. Enjoy!!
Thank you DereK,
I’m really looking forward to reading this.
Thank you Derek,
I can’t believe I got to read it again after 51 years of never forgetting it! I will pay your kindness forward.
Teresa
Teresa,
You are right. I remember reading this story and the years you give would fit with me too.
If my memory serves me correctly, the girl was on a picnic with her parents and their car rolled over the cliff with them in it, leaving her an orphan. That story really upset me at the time but I’m sure it had a happy ending, although can’t remember what it was.
And on top of the loss of her parents, poor Anne gets bullied at the orphanage because they think she’s a sneak. That type of thing is not uncommon in girls’ comics – Rowan Small from “It’s a Dog’s Life!” in Tammy goes through a similar ordeal. And there is a lot of sickening animal cruelty in that one too, because that is what her only friend, the dog from next door, is going through.
Most likely it ended with the girls somehow realising their mistake about Anne.
I have discovered a partial repeat of ‘Anne All-Alone’ running in BUNTY from 1122 (July 14 1979) to 1130 (September 8 1979).
Partial repeat? Do you mean they didn’t finish it? Or were some episodes cut out of it?
Well, Mistyfan, you can surely figure out that if a serial with fifteen episodes is reduced to one with nine, six episodes have been removed.
Perhaps “abridged” is the word.
And perhaps it isn’t. Come off it, Mistyfan. Where exactly in my sentence are you going to use that word ‘abridged’ so that it will add something useful to clarify the meaning of what I wrote? No, I thought not.
I have discovered that the #1122 – #1130 serial of “Anne All Alone” is not a reprint. It is a completely different story. It is about two cousins who are sent to their grandmothers old school for one year. If one of them wins the “Poutney Popularity Cup” they inherit the remainder of her estate. The other cousin knows this and tries to make Anne unpopular and get her expelled.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a great 2021.
Thanks for clarification Ronnie and happy New Year to you too.