Category Archives: Bunty

Bunty Holiday Special 2002

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Picture Stories

  • The Comp (Pages 10-13) [Art: Peter Wilkes]
  • Love Letters (Pages 26-28) [Art: Ron Lumsden]
  • Girl Zone (Page 30) [Art: Andy Tew]
  • Teacher’s Pet (Pages 33-35) [Art: Guy Peeters]
  • The Four Marys (Pages 41-46) [Art: Jim Eldridge]
  • Girls Talking (Page 47)

Text Stories

  • Snap! (Page 18)

Photo Stories

  • Bird Brain (Pages 3-6)
  • The Old Manor House (Pages 19-21)
  • Moving On? (Pages 38-40)

Features

  • What’s In? (Page 2)
  • Britney Poster (page7)
  • Hot Stuff!  (page 8-9)
  • Wish You were where? (Page 9)
  • Party Girls (books) (Pages 14)
  • Puzzle it out! (Pages 16-17)
  • Pack up a picnic (Pages 22-23)
  • Bunny and chicks poster (Pages 24-25)
  • Happy Holidays (Page 29)
  • S Club 7 poster (Page 31)
  • It’s Hot (Page 32)
  • Flower Power (Page 36)
  • David Beckham poster (Page 37)
  • Cross Eyed puzzle (Page 47)
  • Cat Poster (Page 48)

Pony Girl

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Plot

A mysterious girl that camps in the Devon moors  with her horse, Monarch, and is friends with wild ponies.

 

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Monarch blijft trouw” (Monarch Remains Loyal)- Debbie #5 (1978)

Appeared

  • Pony Girl – Bunty:  #981 (30 October 1976) – #992 (15 January 1977)

Big Ben and Little Lena (1976)

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Plot

Lena Dawson lives on a small farm. Mr Burton, who runs a stable, allows her rides on his ponies. Mr Burton dies when a tree falls on him, and his will leaves the stables to one of the girls who attends his stables, but only to the one who scores the most points in a marathon pony trek using their own horse. Lena doesn’t own a pony, so she uses farm horse Ben, and has to ride him bareback as Ben is too big for a saddle.

Notes

Appeared

  • Big Ben and Little Lena – Bunty: #970 (14 August 1976) – #980 (23 October 1976)

Pavement Ballerina

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Plot

Tessa Turner, grows up poor, but has a talent for dance. A meeting with a homeless woman, Rosie, who tells her she is a former ballerina and will teach her to dance, changes her life. She begins to take her lessons on the street, though other people think that Rosie is a con artist, Tessa finds out that she was in truth a famous ballerina, that was believed to have died in a concentration camp during World War II.  With her mother and Rosie’s help Tessa gets a place in a dance school and in turn she secures Rosie a job there as a teacher.

 

Notes

  • Art: Andy Tew
  • Art Lucky Charm Cover: Ian Kennedy

Appeared

  • Pavement Ballerina – Bunty: #905 (17 May 1975) – #926 (11 October 1975)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm: #14 (1981)

Little Miss Frozen Face

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Plot

Jo-Ann Morton, a rising tennis star, earns the name “Visage Glacial” (Frozen Face)  in France after she wins the Europa Junior Tournament while her parents died in a crash and she quickly goes on to compete in another competition. Unknown to all the gossipers, Jo-Ann’s aunt had not told her the news during the match and afterwards told her that her father left  lot of debt and embezzled money from a children’s home, so she would need to compete to earn her keep and to make her her father’s good name wasn’t ruined.

Jo-Ann plays but she no longer has a love of the game, and never showing happiness on her face only builds her Frozen Face reputation. Her aunt continues to exploit and blackmail her. She makes a friend with Sir Sam Haigh, a millionaire mill owner, but due to his appearance her aunt Maud thinks he’s a commoner. Finally having a friend to confide in Sam helps clear her father’s name and expose the real culprit, her Aunt Maud. Free from her, Jo-Ann can finally begin to live her life again and play tennis for her own enjoyment.

 

Notes

  • Story Art: Mario Capaldi.
  • Art Lucky Charm Cover: Ian Kennedy

Appeared

  • Little Miss Frozen Face – Bunty: #784 (20 January 1973) – #803 (2 June 1973)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm: #17 (1982)