Category Archives: Bunty

“It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky/ Inky at St Ives

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Plot

Inky is a pup with the gift of the gab, so he tells his own stories of his life as a watchdog at St Ives Boarding School.

inky

Notes

  • Art: Jose Casanovas (1971 series)
  • Art: Carlos Laffond (1975 series)

Appeared

  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty: #717 (9 October 1971) – #741 (25 March 1972)
  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty #789 (24 February 1973) – (?)
  • Inky at St Ives  – Bunty:  #889 (25 January 1975) – #897 (22 March 1975)
    • Reprinted – Bunty: #1408 (5 January 1985)  – #1416 (2 March 1985)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty Annual 1973

The Two Lives of Cathy O’Connor

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Plot:

Cathy O’Connor’s lives with her Uncle Tom and Aunt Bridie working hard for them. When they see a picture of a rich girl that looks like her and read that her sister, Barbara, was killed in plane crash years ago, her cruel uncle forces her to impersonate the girl in order to get money from the rich family.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • The Two Lives of Cathy O’Connor – Bunty: #893 (22 February 1975) – #906 (24 May 1975)

Run, Rana, Run!

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Plot

Rana Mogambu is a brilliant athlete from Bokana. She is sent to be educated at Lingon Girls’ School. Shari, an elder from Rana’s village, accompanies her to monitor her athletics training. He also has strange powers, which he uses to help Rana win races.

Notes

Appeared

  • Run, Rana, Run! – Bunty: circa #877 (2 November 1974) – #891 (8 February 1975)

Sister Sal What a Gal

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Plot

Millicent Wingrove attends an exclusive school, St Anne’s. Her father remarries and her new stepsister Sally joins her at the school. Unfortunately Sally has not been taught manners, especially table manners, and at an exclusive school this makes for problems.

Notes

  • Artist: Tony Higham

Appeared

  • Sister Sal What a Gal–  Bunty: circa  #877 (2 November 1974) – #891 (8 February 1975)

A Racehorse of Her Own

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Plot

Shirley Wilson raises Hope, a young racehorse abandoned at birth by her wealthy father. She has to pay for all the expenses as her father believes in working hard for money, so she takes a job with a rag-and-bone man. When Dad demands Hope back later on, she refuses. He agrees to let her keep Hope on condition she still pay for expenses, which are even more costly now.

racehorse

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • Issues: Bunty #876-#886, reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Een renpaard voor Sonja” – A Racinghorse for Sonja”) – Debbie #51 (1985?)
  • Issues: Bunty #887-#888, reprinted and translated into Dutch as as a sequel called “Hope” – Debbie #51

Appeared

  • A Racehorse of Her Own – Bunty: #876 (26 October 1974) – #895 (8 March 1975)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm #11 (1981)

Stella at Stage School

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Plot

Stella May wins a scholarship to Madam Spencer’s Stage School. But her father does not approve or understand Stella’s acting and thinks it is detrimental to her education, which he drives her too hard at. He keeps threatening to withdraw Stella from the school if she fails her schoolwork.

Notes

  • Artist: Andy Tew
  • Unconfirmed, reprinted and translated to Dutch as “Stella op de toneelschool” – Peggy #2/1988

Appeared

  • Stella at Stage School–  Bunty: circa #877 (2 November 1974) – #898 (19 March 1975)

Princess of the Sun

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Plot

The perfectly preserved body of Nusta Calixapas, daughter of the last of the Inca kings, comes to life when it is discovered during an archaeological expedition. Nusta refuses to be separated from Melanie Mace, an archaeologist’s daughter, whom she makes her personal maid. So Nusta comes to England and Melanie’s boarding school, but her haughtiness as a royal is not making her popular. She also starts developing strange fainting fits, but recovers in the sunlight.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Princess of the Sun–  Bunty: #876 (26 October 1974) – #888 (18 January 1975)

Katy the Cabby

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Plot

Katy Talbot’s father runs a taxi service, but then there is a mysterious fire in which his taxi is destroyed. The Talbots suspect Tim Blundstone, who runs a rival taxi service, but cannot prove it. Katy restarts the family taxi business with an old-fashioned horse and cab, but Blundstone is out to sabotage her.

Notes

  • Translated into Dutch as “Katsja de koetsier” – Tina #34/1975-51/1975.

Appeared

  • Katy the Cabby–  Bunty: #857 (15 June 1974) – #868 (31 August 1974)

Dorinda from the Deep

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Plot:

Kelly Mann, a sculpturer, takes on the job of sculpting a statue of a ballerina, Dorinda, for the new ballet theatre. She is unsure as to whether she is up to the job and is having trouble finding the purest white stone required. Then, after a strange storm, Kelly finds such a piece of stone on the beach. When she starts work, she is surprised to find the statue is beginning to shape all by itself.

Dorinda

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Dorinda from the Deep –  Bunty: #858, 22 June 1974 – (?)