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Dopey Dora – the Hope of the School

Bunty,

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

Bunty,

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: #348 (12 September 1964) – (?)

Backstreet Ballerina

Bunty

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)

Sadie’s Sewing Machine

Bunty, , ,

Plot

In 1870s Colorado, Sadie Heritage, her father and her brother Rolf’s family arrive in the boom town of Kowawa Springs. The men of the family find it difficult to get work, but Sadie is making ends meet with her sewing machine. The men eventually find good jobs, but Rolf’s family are still hanging on and expect Sadie to slave for them all the time.

Notes

  • Art: E C Julien

Appeared

  • Sadie’s Sewing Machine –  Bunty: #337 (27 June 1964) – (?)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances:

  • Sadie’s Sewing Machine –  Bunty Annual 1966

The Invisible Schoolgirl (1965)

Bunty

Plot

Ira Insley’s scientist father is kidnapped. During the kidnap, he throws a phial out the window and tells Ira to get rid of it at all costs. When the kidnappers make a grab for the phial, Ira swallows it and becomes invisible. Ira’s friend Wendy does what she can to help hide her condition. But in the absence of Ira’s father and the kidnappers coming after her, an antidote is not likely at the present time.

invisible_schoolgirl

Notes

  • Translated into Dutch as “Wie ziet Cindy..?” (Who Can See Cindy..?), with new artwork, and published in weekly Tina #44/1993-3/1994.

Appeared

  • The Invisible Schoolgirl –  Bunty: #402 (25 September 1965) – #413 (11 December 1965)

Shivery Shirley

Bunty, , ,

Plot:

When Kelly Bond’s mother opens a school at Charity Hall, Kelly discovers it is haunted by Shivery Shirley, a kitchen maid who died of the cold in prison after being wrongly accused of theft. Everywhere Shirley goes, cold and icy blasts follow her, hence her nickname.

Notes:

  • Artist: Douglas Perry

Appeared:

  • Shivery Shirley–  Bunty: #1310 (19 February 1983) – #1318 (12 March 1983)

Other Appearances:

  • Shivery Shirley – Bunty annual 1984 [Artist: Douglas Perry]

Stella and the Swinging Five

Bunty

Plot

Stella Starr, a young guitar player, joins the newly-formed girls’ pop group, The Swinging Five and hopes to earn enough money to save her grandfather’s rundown cafe. However, she senses something odd about the group’s organiser, Madame Svengler, who is also a miser.

Notes

Appeared

  • Stella and the Swinging Five –  Bunty: no publication dates currently available

Baby, Baby!

Bunty,

Plot

Kelly hadn’t been keen when her mother was expecting a baby, but changes her mind when the baby arrives. However, Kelly is becoming too obsessed with the baby; she just can’t stop talking about him and this is aggravating her classmates.

baby baby

Notes

  • Photo story

Appeared

  • Baby, Baby!  –  Bunty:  #2224  (26 August 2000) – (?)

Scared!

Bunty,

Plot

When Caz frightens off a burglar, everyone thinks she is really brave. But the incident has traumatised Caz. She is becoming a bag of nerves and is too ashamed to tell anyone.

Notes

  • Photo story

Appeared

  • Scared!  –  Bunty:  #2219 (22 July 2000) – (?)