Yearly Archives: 2015

The School Beneath the Dome

Plot:

Two alien women, Deimos and Phobos, imprison Marlborough Girls’ High School in a transparent dome in order to study human education. Deanna Darwin, captain of the Fifth Form, is determined to defeat the aliens. But she has to contend with things like the aliens encasing her in a magnetic force field so she cannot eat or touch anything, and the weird effects the imprisonment seems to be having on the girls.

Notes:

  • Art: Emilio Frejo

Appeared:

  • The School Beneath the Dome –  Bunty: #414 (18 Dec. 1965) – #428 (26 Mar. 1966)

The Lonely Life of Linda Brown

Plot:

Linda Brown is an orphan and her grandmother is too busy to give her much attention. The only person who does is a governess, Pat Roberts. But Pat leaves to get married and gran sends Linda to Brandon College for Girls, a boarding school.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • The Lonely Life of Linda Brown –  Bunty: no publication dates currently available

The Secret of the Red Balloons

Plot

Children are mysteriously going missing. Jo Baker and her friend Jean Simpson discover that a man at a fair is selling red balloons that children can inflate to such sizes that they are literally flying away on them. Jo is shocked to see that one of the latest children to fly away is her sister Lucy.

Notes

  • Artist: E.C. Julien

Appeared

  • The Secret of the Red Balloons –  Bunty: #615 (25 October 1969) – #629 (31 January 1970)

Dopey Dora – the Hope of the School

Plot:

Dora Spoone is the dimmest pupil at Eversford School, and is also the school klutz – everything she does goes wrong. Yet the school computer picks her as the most brilliant scholar, so she is entered along with five other clever pupils in the School of the Year Contest. Ironically, it is Dora’s blundering that is pulling the team through to success. All the same, her team mates want to get rid of her.

dopey_dora

Notes:

  • Art: Charles Morgan

Appeared:

  • Dopey Dora – the Hope of the School–  Bunty: ? (1969) – #633 (28 February 1970)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Dopey Dora, School Governor – Bunty Annual 1973 [Artist: Charles Morgan]

Sally at Sylvano’s

Plot

Sally Shaw leaves school and starts work at Sylvano’s department store. She wants to be a window dresser, but Miss Newman, the head window dresser, is being deliberately hard on her to test her resolve while the other assistants are snobby and then jealous. Sally finds solace in a wonderful secret – using the basement to practise her own window-dressing.

Notes

Appeared

  • Sally at Sylvano’s –  Bunty: 1964. no publication dates currently available

Backstreet Ballerina

Plot:

Barbara Taylor runs ballet lessons in the East End of London in a converted stable.  She takes in Jessie Tandy, a problem girl on the brink of being sent to approved school, in the hope that ballet will tame her as ballet is one thing that Jessie loves. But the girls are not friendly to Jessie because their parents have forbidden it, and this is making Jessie aggressive again.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Backstreet Ballerina –  Bunty: #561 (12 October 1968) – #579 (15 February 1969)