Yearly Archives: 2015

Abracadabra Academy

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Plot:

Jamara Jones comes from a line of witches, but she wants to be an ordinary girl. Moreover, her spells keep backfiring, with hilarious results. However, her mother wants her to follow the family tradition and sends her to Abracadabra Academy, a school for witchcraft.

Notes:

  • Artist: A E Allen

Appeared:

  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1052 (11 March 1978) –  #1061 (13 May 13 1878)
  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1078 (9 September 1978) – #1081 (30 September 1978)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty Annual 1979

Summer Specials

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty-Judy Summer Special 1978 [Art: A E Allen]

The Westfield Wager

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Plot

Rose Westfield’s Uncle Joshua has gambled away most of the family’s prized possessions. Then he makes a wager with Sir Ralph Granger, staking all the money Sir Ralph has won from him against Rose’s horse Midnight that she can ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in ten days. If she fails, she loses Midnight, but agrees to the race on condition her Uncle Josh give up gambling. Rose is confident of winning, but is up against added difficulties of Sir Ralph’s groom Sykes out to stop her and then her eyesight beginning to fail after a blow to her head.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Westfield Wager  –  Bunty: #1616 (31 December 1988) – #1627 (18 March 1989)

The Hooded Angel

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Plot

In Victorian times, Henrietta Fairnsworth adopts the disguise of the Hooded Angel to secretly help the poor. She has to contend with the cruel Silas Baines, the pit manager who has been left in charge of the house while her father is away.

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Notes

  • Photo story. Most of the story was shot on location at The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish, Country Durham.

Appeared

  • The Hooded Angel –  Bunty:  #1946 (29 April 1995) – #1949 (20 May 1995)

Secret School

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Plot

Victorian teacher Hannah Gilbert is running a secret night school for urchins at Howard Academy. They appreciate her lessons far more than her day class (a class full of spoiled brats from the wealthy classes) and her lessons are helping them to improve their chances in life. But Hannah will be dismissed if her secret is discovered. When it happens, Hannah is determined to keep teaching her urchins and starts looking for other avenues for it.

Notes

Appeared

  • Secret School –  Bunty:  #1930 (7 January 1995) – (?)

Born to Dance!

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Plot

Catherine Collins’ grandmother forbids her to pursue ballet because she blames ballet for the death of Catherine’s mother – despite the fact that gran herself is running a ballet academy! Catherine turns to practising ballet in secret at the academy.

born to dance

Notes

  • Artist: Eduardo Feito
  • Translated into Dutch (as “Balletgeheim” – Ballet Secret) and published in weekly Tina #5/1996-16/1996.

Appeared

  • Born to Dance! –  Bunty:  #1936 (18 February 1995) – #1947 (6 May 1995)

Lessons from Lindy (1994)

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Plot

Angie Parsons, a non-assertive girl, is tired of being taken for granted and being pushed around. She thinks the answer is to take lessons from Lindy Marchant, a selfish girl who always gets her own way, and copy Lindy’s behaviour. This means being pushy, playing dirty tricks, taking advantage of people and manipulating them, and always being selfish. Although Angie inwardly questions Lindy’s underhanded methods at times, they always seem to work out for her in the end, and she thinks Lindy is a real friend.

Then Angie’s father becomes seriously ill because of her bad behaviour in copying Lindy. This shocks Angie into realising her mistake, and she finds true confidence when she gives Lindy a piece of her mind, and also discovers that the selfish Lindy is no friend of hers. From then on, she learns to act assertively and confidently, but with respect to others.

Notes

  • Artist: John Armstrong

Appeared

  • Lessons from Lindy –  Bunty:  #1908  (6 August 1994) – #1920 (29 October 1994)

Lonely Lynn

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Plot

Lynn Walsh is bitter that everyone in the class has a friend except her because the only two she had have moved away. So she turns to breaking up as many friendships in the class as she can out of spite. She has a lot of fun and success in doing so, but then two of her victims compare notes and realise there is a troublemaker in class breaking up friendships. After investigation they find evidence that points to Lynn, and they set a trap – bait her into framing one of them for vandalism in order to split them up – to see if she is the troublemaker.

The trap is so successful that Lynn is sent to a new school. Lynn intends to start over with a new friend she has found and stop breaking up friendships. But an ex-friend is determined to break them up, so Lynn could get a taste of her own medicine.

Notes

  • Artist: Douglas Perry

Appeared

  • Lonely Lynn –  Bunty:  #1915 (24 September 1994) – #1924 (26 November 1994)