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Polly and the Princess

Bunty

Plot

In the late 1500s, Polly Green, daughter of a charcoal-burner, had an encounter with a young rich girl “Bess”. She was shocked to later find out that “Bess” was actually King Henry  VIII’s daughter the princess Elizabeth. Elizabeth invites Polly to Hampton Court as er friend.

Notes

Appeared

  • Polly and the Princess –  Bunty: #51 (3 January 1959) – #63 (28 March 1959)

The Old Curiosity Shop

Bunty, ,

Plot

An adaption of Charles Dickens book. The story follows Nell Trent and her grandfather who run an Old Curiosity Shop in London. Her grandfather trying to secure a good life for Nell ends up gambling money away and borrows money from money lender Quip, who seizes the shop when they cannot pay. Nell and her grandfather are forced to runaway.

Notes

  • Art: Paddy Brennan
  • Writer: Charles Dickens

Appeared

  • The Story the Old Curiosity Shop –  Bunty: #39 (11 October 1958) – #58 (21 February 1959)

Fan-Fan and her Friends

Bunty, ,

Plot

A humorous cartoon story about a girl Fan-Fan and her group of friends.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Marin
  • Story reprinted from the French magazine “Nano et Nanette”

Appeared

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty: #50 (27 December 1958) – #58 (21 February 1959)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Annual 1960
  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Annual 1963

Summer Specials

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Summer Special 1967

Little Miss Feather Fingers

Bunty,

Plot

Irene Pryce, an orphan and brilliant pianist, was taken in by music teacher Madame Cherrier. The teacher had suffered tragedy in her life when she lost her husband and daughter in accident but Irene had found out they had survived the accident. She didn’t want to get Madame Cherrier, so she investigated secretly.

Notes

  • Text story

Appeared

  • Little Miss Feather Fingers (text) – Bunty: #37 (27 September 1958) – #52 (10 January 1959)

Trixie

Bunty

Plot

Trixie follows a young blonde girl in humorous situations. She often comes up with clever solutions to the situations. The strips were usually 1/2 page but sometimes were full pages, often it would appear at the side of a text story.

Notes

  • Each strip had it’s own title.
  • This was similar tone to the comic strip Hetty, including each strip having it’s own title. Hetty appeared in Bunty first , finishing in #30, a couple of issues before Trixie started.

Appeared

  • Trixie – Bunty: #33 (30 August 1958) – #38 (4 October 1958) [no episode in issue #37]
  • Trixie – Bunty: #53 (17 January 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #55 (31 January 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #59 (28 February 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #65 (11 April 1959) – #68 (2 May 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #74 (13 June 1959) – #76 (27 June 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #80 (1 August 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #84 (22 August 1959)

List of Stories

  • Trixie and the Canary – Bunty: #33
  • Trixie Takes a Bath – Bunty: #34
  • Trixie and the Parrot – Bunty: #35
  • Trixie and the Stunt Pilot – Bunty: #36
  • Trixie and the Cake – Bunty: #38
  • Trixie the Sailor – Bunty: #53
  • Trixie the Glamour Girl – Bunty: #55
  • Trixie and the Shadow Game – Bunty: #59
  • Trixie and the Cats – Bunty: #65
  • Trixie and the Masks – Bunty: #66
  • Trixie and the Kite – Bunty: #67
  • Trixie and the Bluebottle – Bunty: #68
  • Trixie and the Mountaineer – Bunty: #74
  • Trixie and the White Rabbit – Bunty: #75
  • Trixie Gets “Caught”” in the Rain – Bunty: #76 (2 page story)
  • Trixie and the Pear Tree – Bunty: #80
  • Trixie – Photographer – Bunty: #81
  • Trixie Goes Fishing – Bunty: #84

Update – Expect some downtime on site

Miscellaneous

Following up on Ramon’s comment about some site issues, I thought it best to make a post rather then it get lost in the comments!

I don’t manage much of the backend of the website, I have hosting service which handles the servers. There have been issues with the current servers, and they were due to move to new ones, but there was a delay. This is now in process, but while this is happening, there may be some times when the site is unavailable, over the next 2 weeks. After that things should be back on track. I appreciate your patience during this time and hope it won’t cause too many issues!

For other updates, I haven’t been doing as much posts lately, but I have been doing some research at National Libary and updating old posts with new date information, annual appearances and updating the story list.  Depending on my work and family commitments, there may be times I won’t be as active but I will get round to comments and updates when I can 🙂

 

Hetty

Bunty

Plot

Hetty follows a young girl in humorous situations. The strips were usually 1/2 page but sometimes were full pages. Each strip had it’s own title.

Notes

Appeared

  • Hetty – Bunty: #22 (14 June 1958) – #30 (9 August1958) [no episode in issue #24]

Other Appearances

  • Hetty in “Catch as Cats Can” – Bunty Annual 1960
  • A Poser for Hetty – Bunty Annual 1961
  • Hetty – Bunty Annual 1961
  • Hetty – Bunty Annual 1963

List of Stories

  • Hetty’s Hair-do – Bunty: #22
  • Hetty the Baby-sitter – Bunty: #23
  • Unlucky Dip – Bunty: #25
  • Hetty the Painter – Bunty: #26
  • Hetty Makes a Slip – Bunty: #27
  • Hetty Puts her Foot in it! – Bunty: #28
  • Hetty’s Strange Ambition – Bunty: #29
  • Hetty and her Hiccups – Bunty: #30