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Visit to Venus [1967]

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Plot

In the year 2004, the first mission to Venus arrives on the planet. It loses contact with Earth and is given up for dead. In fact the crew (Captain Coleman and his daughter Vanessa,  and three crew members) are alive and fighting to survive against a dwindling supply of oxygen. Vanessa accidentally spills seeds on Venusian soil, which soon grow into super-growing trees. Then dangers threaten the astronauts, including a Venusian monster and their spaceship sinking into quicksand.

Notes

  • Artist: Douglas Perry

Appeared

  • Visit to Venus – Bunty: circa #488 (20 May 1967) – (?)

Pat Among the Ponies (1958)

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Plot

The senior girls of Moordown Riding School are completing the last stage of their cross-country initiative test and must return by a certain time. Pat Farley is among them, but things go wrong and they go off course.

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch as “Pat en haar ponies” – Debbie (unknown publication dates)

Appeared

  • Pat among the Ponies – Bunty: #22 (14 June 1958) – #37 (27 September 1958)
  • Reprinted – Bunty: #469 (7 January 1967) – #484 (22 April 1967)

Other Appearances

  • Pat among the Ponies – Bunty Annual 1960

Annie’s Orphans [1967]

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Plot

In the wake of the Great Fire of London, Annie Besson rescues seven orphans. They go to live on a barge where Annie is trying to teach them to read and write. They are joined by a mudlark, Jonno, who steals whatever he needs. Annie is trying to cure him of stealing, but Jonno eventually ends up in court.

Notes

Appeared

  • Annie’s Orphans – Bunty: circa #484 (22 April 1967) – (?)

Milly Marbles [1967]

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Plot

Milly Mason is an expert marbles player, taught by her great-grandmother. They often find themselves using Milly’s marbles playing to combat unsavoury attitudes, such as snobbery and chauvinism.

Notes

Appeared

  • Milly Marbles – circa #484 (22 April 1967) – (?)

Other Appearances:

Summer Specials:

  • Milly Marbles – Bunty Summer Special 1968
  • Milly Marbles – Bunty Summer Special 1969

 

Fiona’s Strange Inheritance [1967]

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Plot

Fiona McKnock Smith has been wrongly accused of attempting to poison the Chief of the McKnock clan and is sent away from McKnock Island. She creeps back to prove her innocence. Johnny Duncan accompanies her. She discovers a plot to steal the clan jewels, which the cook Mrs Strong and her granddaughter Fiona are part of. The crooks, Hank and Shortie, take Fiona and servant Dugald prisoner. After they escape they overhear Hank and Shortie planning to dispose of Mrs Strong and her granddaughter once they are of no further use. They warn Mrs Strong of this. She tells them Hank and Shortie have a new accomplice. Then they see Johnny with Hank and Shortie. Is he the new accomplice or what?

Notes

  • Artist: Peter Kay

Appeared

  • Fiona’s Strange Inheritance – Bunty: circa #484 (22 April 1967) – (?)

Jenny and the Robot Schoolgirl [1966]

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Plot

Jenny Anderson is often very lonely because her scientist father is too busy and tends to neglect her. He also neglects the bills and keeping her private tutor paid. He invents a robot companion named Ruby for Jenny, which works out well. Ruby also serves as the housekeeper and Jenny’s tutor. When the bailiffs come collecting chattels to pay off Dad’s debts, Ruby gets rid of them, but Dad is worried they will come back for Ruby because they saw her components are valuable (gold, rubies and other precious stones). So he sends Ruby to a safe haven – school with Jenny!

Notes

  • Art: A E Allen

Appeared

  • Jenny and the Robot Schoolgirl – Bunty: #458 (22 October 1966) – (?)

Mona in the Village of Fear (1966)

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Plot

Mona Masters, a master magician, is summoned by her friend Anita to the village of Wishpool. Wishpool is in the grip of Father Frobisher, financially and economically, apparently because he is able to control the weather, crops and fortunes of the farmers. The villagers are terrified of him and will not do anything without his permission.

Notes

  • Artist: Peter Kay

Appeared

  • Mona in the Village of Fear – Bunty: #458 (22 October 1966) – (?)

Myrtle the Mermaid (1958)

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Plot

Sylvia Johnson invents friends (princess, fairy etc) to play with because her parents’ cottage is so isolated in the school holidays and she has no friends to play with. So Mum and Dad are rather sceptical when Sylvia tells them she is bringing a mermaid called Myrtle to tea but decide to play along with it. But they don’t realise that this time, Sylvia is telling them the truth!

Notes

Appeared

  • Myrtle the Mermaid – Bunty: #38 (4 October 1958) – #48 (13 December 1958)
  • Reprinted – Bunty:  #458 (22 October 1966) – #468 (31 December 1966)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Myrtle the Mermaid – Bunty Annual 1967 [Artist: A E Allen]

The Unwanted One [1966]

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Plot

Peggy Taylor’s parents suddenly die in a crash. Already emotionally disturbed from it all, Peggy feels unwanted when her only surviving relatives decline to take her, and she can’t take to the home she is sent to. She runs away to neighbour Mrs Collins, hoping Mrs Collins will take her in.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Unwanted One – Bunty: #458 (22 October 1966) – (?)