Category Archives: Bunty

Doctor Fido

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Plot:

Thirteen year old Sally Downes lived at Bridge House Children’s Home where she liked helping out with the younger children. When an injured dog wandered into the grounds, Sally took care of him, and he bacame a firm favourite with the children, who named him Doctor Fido.

A different version turns up in a Bunty Picture Story Library book. Nurse Jill Elliot gets a job at Endervale Children’s Home and brings her dog Fido, who she’s owned since he was a pup. The Matron isn’t too happy but the children beg her to let the dog stay and they nickname him Doctor Fido.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Doctor Fido –  Bunty:  #1687 (12 May 1990)  –  #1697 (21 July 1990)

Other Appearances:

  • Doctor Fido – Bunty Picture Story Library: #359

 

 

Backstreet Hospital

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Plot

When Nurse Mary Travers returned from the Crimean War she set up her own hospital for needy children, helped by Liza Parkin.

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Notes

  • Art: “B Jackson”

Appeared

  • Backstreet Hospital –  Bunty:  #1684 (21 April 1990) –  #1697 (21 July 1990)
  • Backstreet Hospital –  Bunty:  #1709 (13 October 1990)  –  #1717 (08 December 1990)
  • Backstreet Hospital –  Bunty:  #1756 (07 September 1991)  – (?)
  • Backstreet Hospital –  Bunty:  #1771 (21 December 1991)  – #1776 (25 January 1992)
  • Reprint –  Bunty: #2244 (13 January 2001) – #2249 (17 February 2001)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Backstreet Hospital – Bunty Annual 1992
    • Reprinted – Bunty Annual 2002

Summer Specials

  • Backstreet Hospital – Bunty Summer Special 1991

Picture Story Library

  • Backstreet Hospital – Bunty Picture Story Library: #342

 

Mighty Mo

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Plot

Mighty Mo is the strongest girl  in  Cactus Creek.

Notes

  • Art: James Malcolm?
  • Translated into Dutch as “Stalen Stien” and stories published in various magazines and albums, including Debbie #14 (1979).

Appeared

  • Mighty Mo – First Appearance – Bunty: #717 (9 October 1971)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Annual 1972
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Annual 1973
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Annual 1974
  • Mighty Mo (x2) – Bunty Annual 1975
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Annual 1976
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty – Golden Age Classic Stories (2009)

Summer Specials

  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Summer Special 1972
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty Summer Special 1973
  • Mighty Mo – Bunty-Judy Summer Special 1975

Anna, the Animals’ Friend

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Plot

Anna Martin loved her job with the Animals’ Protection Society. The town where Anna lived were having their biggest argument  for years. The River Board had suggested some of the swans on the river should be shot and there had been a storm of protest following the decision.

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Notes

  • Art: Dudley Wynne

Appeared

  • Anna, the Animals’ Friend – Bunty: circa #855 (01 June 1974) – (?)

The Last of the Everitts

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Plot:

Jill Marsh was secretly Geraldine Everitt, heiress to Oaklands. She worked there as a kitchen-maid, in order to help her grandfather, Sir John, against Burrows, his scheming agent who almost ruined him.

Notes:

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “De Everitts” – Debbie #30 (1982).

Appeared:

  • The Last of the Everitts – Bunty: #849 (20 April 1974) – #859 (29 June 1974)

Trilby Will Be Tops!

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Plot

A mysterious woman, Miss Travis, took an interest in Pat Trilby’s sporting career.  By means of hypnosis, Miss Travis was forcing Pat to take part in the qualifying rounds for the Wimbledon tennis championships. Pat’s friend Judy Todd was trying to help free her from Miss Travis’s influence.

Notes

Appeared

  • Trilby Will Be Tops!  – Bunty: #842 (2 March 1974) – (?)