Category Archives: Bunty

Bunty Complete Stories

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Plot

Bunty had a number of complete one-off text and picure stories, over the years. It also sometimes had short humour strips. In later years it also had complete photo stories. Some stories included:

Two Little Piggies Went to Market

When Pam Wilson’s two pigs, Wilf and Simon, are stolen by some crooks they aren’t expecting her to be able to prove their hers, but they did not know they were performing pigs. Pam is able to prove they are hers by showing them dance.

Bess and her Pup

A humour strip about Bess and her pup Pooch.

“I Don’t Like Dogs!”

Special complete story. Mrs Kemp has terrible cynophobia (fear of dogs) and this fear passes on to her daughter Helen. After Mrs Kemp dies, Dad finds a new girlfriend, Rowena, but when Helen sees she has a golden retriever, Benji, her cynophobia starts causing problems with the new relationship. It gets to the point where Helen tries to deliberately lose Benji in the hope Rowena will leave. But when a mugger attacks Helen and Benji comes to the rescue, everything changes.

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Rosie’s Return

A girl goes back to her old house in Kinley and ends up wishing she hadn’t. She had a quarrel with her friend Carol before she moved, and when she meets Carol again, she is freaked out by Carol having a ghostly encounter with a girl named Rosie.

Misty

Sara has an encounter with a rider on a white horse that she cannot explain.

Ghosthunters

Jilly, Sue and Natalie decide to go ghost hunting, and their hunt takes an unexpected turn.

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Puppy Love

Lauren Dean has always wanted a pet, but it was not possible as her family live in an apartment block. Then Dad changes jobs and the family move into a cottage, where Lauren can have a pet at last. A stray dog adopts Lauren, and Lauren names her Spot. Spot dies, but not before she has given birth to three puppies, who become Lauren’s new pets.

Notes

  • A variety of artist drew these stories including: Andy Tew, Maria Dembilio, Guy Peeters

List of Stories

  • Waif of the Fells (text) – Bunty: 34 (6 September 1958)
  • The Bell She Hated – Bunty: #38 (4 October 1958)
  • “Bee” for Betty – Bunty: #41 (25 October 1958)
  • Daisy Bell – Bunty: #43 (8 November 1958)
  • The Miss who Became a Hit – Bunty: #49 (20 December 1958)
  • Two Little Piggies went to Market – Bunty: #52 (27 December 1958)
  • Bonny and her Baby Brother – Bunty: #77 (4 July 1959) & #103 (2 January 1960)
  • Midge – Bunty: #77 (4 July 1959) & #79 (18 July 1959)
  • Bess and her Pup – Bunty: #78 (4 July 1959)
  • Bess that’s the Cake – Bunty: #87 (12 September 1959)
  • The Ambitious Miss Britten (text) – Bunty: #88 (19 September 1959)
  • A New Home for Daffodil (text) – Bunty: #89 (26 September 1959)
  • The Horse They Scorned (text) – Bunty: #118 (16 April 1960)
  • Jane of the Clarion (text) – Bunty: #119 (23 April 1960)
  • Helen on her own (text) – Bunty: #120 (30 April 1960)
  • Julie’s Junk Shop (text) – Bunty: #136 (20 August 1960)
  • Penny and Her Pony (text) – Bunty: #189 (26 August 1961)
  • “I Don’t Like Dogs!”–  Bunty: #1617 (7 January 1989) [Artist: Andy Tew]
  • True Colours (photo) –  Bunty: #1658 (21 October 1989)
  • The Perfect Present – Bunty: #1772 (28 December 1991)
  • The Perfect Boyfriend – Bunty: #1773 (4 January 1992)
  • Blind Date – Bunty: #1776 (25 January 1992)
  • School Daze (photo) – Bunty: #1789 (25 April 1992)
  • Love Story (photo) – Bunty: #1790 (2 May 1992)
  • A Dog’s Best Friend (photo )- Bunty: #1791 (9 May 1992)
  • The New Girl (photo) – Bunty: #1792 (16 May 1992)
  • Star Search (photo) – Bunty: #1793 (23 May 1992)
  • Oh, Boy! (photo) – Bunty: #1917 (8 October 1994)
  • Sweet Hearts (photo) – Bunty: #1936 (18 February 1995)
  • Rosie’s Return (text) –  Bunty: #2043 (8 March 1997)
  • Misty (text) – Bunty: #2049 (19 April 1997)
  • Ghosthunters–  Bunty: #2086 (3 January 1998) [Artist: Maria Dembilio]
  • Puppy Love –  Bunty: #2209 (13 May 2000) [Artist: Ron Lumsden]

Miss Danby’s Dolls

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Plot

Liz Miller has taken a job as companion and help to Miss Danby. Her sole companions are eight dolls: tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man and thief. Liz thinks Miss Danby is fantasising when she talks about the dolls as if they were alive – but then strange things start happening that suggest they are.

Notes

  • Artist: Norman Lee

Appeared

  • Miss Danby’s Dolls –  Bunty: #1616 (31 December 1988)  –  #1623 (18 February 1989)

Abracadabra Academy

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Plot:

Jamara Jones comes from a line of witches, but she wants to be an ordinary girl. Moreover, her spells keep backfiring, with hilarious results. However, her mother wants her to follow the family tradition and sends her to Abracadabra Academy, a school for witchcraft.

Notes:

  • Artist: A E Allen

Appeared:

  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1052 (11 March 1978) –  #1061 (13 May 13 1878)
  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1078 (9 September 1978) – #1081 (30 September 1978)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty Annual 1979

Summer Specials

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty-Judy Summer Special 1978 [Art: A E Allen]

The Westfield Wager

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Plot

Rose Westfield’s Uncle Joshua has gambled away most of the family’s prized possessions. Then he makes a wager with Sir Ralph Granger, staking all the money Sir Ralph has won from him against Rose’s horse Midnight that she can ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in ten days. If she fails, she loses Midnight, but agrees to the race on condition her Uncle Josh give up gambling. Rose is confident of winning, but is up against added difficulties of Sir Ralph’s groom Sykes out to stop her and then her eyesight beginning to fail after a blow to her head.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Westfield Wager  –  Bunty: #1616 (31 December 1988) – #1627 (18 March 1989)

The Hooded Angel

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Plot

In Victorian times, Henrietta Fairnsworth adopts the disguise of the Hooded Angel to secretly help the poor. She has to contend with the cruel Silas Baines, the pit manager who has been left in charge of the house while her father is away.

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Notes

  • Photo story. Most of the story was shot on location at The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish, Country Durham.

Appeared

  • The Hooded Angel –  Bunty:  #1946 (29 April 1995) – #1949 (20 May 1995)

Secret School

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Plot

Victorian teacher Hannah Gilbert is running a secret night school for urchins at Howard Academy. They appreciate her lessons far more than her day class (a class full of spoiled brats from the wealthy classes) and her lessons are helping them to improve their chances in life. But Hannah will be dismissed if her secret is discovered. When it happens, Hannah is determined to keep teaching her urchins and starts looking for other avenues for it.

Notes

Appeared

  • Secret School –  Bunty:  #1930 (7 January 1995) – (?)