Category Archives: Bunty

Millie’s Magic Broomstick

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Plot

When Millie Masterton was chosen to play the witch in her school play, her grandmother gave her a magic broomstick which was 200 years old. When Millie read out three strange words carved on the handle of the broomstick, she discovered she could fly with it!

In an annual story she helps out at the circus when their human cannonball act can’t go on as the spring mechanism is broken. She use her broomstick to fly out of the cannon, though she will not reveal how she performed the act!

Notes

  • In her first issue she appeared on the cover with Bunty.

Appeared

  • Millie’s Magic Broomstick  – Bunty: #199 (4 November 1961) – (?)

Other Appearances:

  • Millie’s Magic Broomstick  – Bunty Annual 1963

Bonny and her Baby Brother

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Plot

Humour stip about girl Bonny, who tries to look after her mischievious baby brother.

Notes

  • The comic strip only appeared briefly and sporadically in the weekly issues.
  • For a short period of time from Bunty issue #244 to #253, there was a page of various cartoon strips, this page had the Babalu strip and then rotated other strips including Bonny and her Baby Brother.

Appeared

  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #77 (4 July 1959)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #103 (2 January 1960)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #192 (16 September 1961)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #235 (14 July 1962)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #247 (6 October 1962)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #250 (27 October 1962)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #261 (12 January 1963)

Other Appearances:

  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty Annual 1961

The Queen’s Shadow

Bunty,

Plot

Collette a homeless girl was living in a disused part of the Royal Palace of Cardillia. Collete had discovered a plot to kill the young queen. She warned Queen Sonya who asked Collete to be her shadow and try to discover who her enemies were.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Queen’s Shadow – Bunty: #191 (9 September 1961) – #200 (11 November 1961)

Sukaro

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Plot

In the late 1800s, Sukaro was young Indian nursemaid to the English Pringle family. She and the family escaped to the junle when the Pringle’s bungalow was burned at start of the Indian Rebellion. While the family hid in the jungle Sukaro volunteered to go back to the city and find out what had happened, she then helped sneak them to the British residency.

Notes

Appeared

  • Sukaro – Bunty: #190 (2 September 1961) – #203 (2 December 1961)

My Sister Mitsy

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Plot

Linda Crawford has a job looking after her impish 5 year old sister Mitsy, though she knows she’s good at heart.

Notes

Appeared

  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty: #190 (2 September 1961) –  #198 (28 October 1961)
  • My Sister Mitsy (text) – Bunty: #207 (30 December 1961)
  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty: #229 (2 June 1962) – (?)
  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty: #258 (22 December 1962)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty Annual 1963
  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty Annual 1964
  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty Annual 1966
  • My Sister Mitsy (text) – Bunty Annual 1968

Summer Specials

  • My Sister Mitsy – Bunty Summer Special 1965

 

Daisy’s Doll Hospital

Bunty

Plot

Daisy Dawkins runs a doll’s hospital where she mends broken dolls, she also has a knack for fixing people’s problems too.

Notes

  • Text story

Appeared

  • Daisy’s Doll Hospital (text) – Bunty: #190 (2 September 1961) –  #198 (28 October 1961)
  • Daisy’s Doll Hospital (text) – Bunty: #206 (23 Decmeber 1961)

Other Appearances:

  • Daisy’s Doll Hospital (text) – Bunty Annual 1963 [Spot Art: James Walker?]

A New Nest for the Sparrows

Bunty

Plot

During World War II, the Sparrow family were sent from London to stay in the countryside at “The Grange”. But the Sparrow children felt they would prefer to take their chances with air-raids in London then stay with the bad-tempered couple Mr and Mrs Travers who owned The Grange.

Notes

Appeared

  • A New Nest for the Sparrows – Bunty: #190 (2 September 1961) –  (?)

The Secret of the Six Dolls

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Plot

Betsy Paige found six beautifully gowned dolls on the beach near her Aunt Maud’s home. She didn’t know that the dresses were exact copies of secret designs from a famous Paris fashion house and that they had been flown to England so that Charles Benson, a manufacturer of cheap dresses could make a profit by copying them.

Mr Benson had enlisted his employee Samuel Daker to track down the lost dolls. Daker had manage to steal 2 doll from Betsy’s room, wheat he didn’t realise was that Betsy had dressed  some of the dolls in dresses she had made herself!

Notes

Appeared

  • The Secret of the Six Dolls – Bunty: #177 (3 June 1961) – #184 (22 July 1961)

Flora the Flower Girl

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Plot

Flora Delaney loves flowers and wishes to find a job where she can work with them, it doesn’t prove easy though. When she gets a job at Wildwood Studios being trained in flower arranging, after she gets in fight with another girl, Hilary, who accuses Flora of tampering with her vase, they are both fired. She gets another job working a flower counter in a department store, but when she is honest to a customer that the flowers she picked won’t grow outside and loses a sale, the manager gets mad and moves her to hardware counter.

Notes

Appeared

  • Flora the Flower Girl – Bunty: #175 (20 May 1961) – #184 (22 July 1961)