Category Archives: Bunty

Trixie

Plot

Trixie follows a young blonde girl in humorous situations. She often comes up with clever solutions to the situations. The strips were usually 1/2 page but sometimes were full pages, often it would appear at the side of a text story.

Notes

  • Each strip had it’s own title.
  • This was similar tone to the comic strip Hetty, including each strip having it’s own title. Hetty appeared in Bunty first , finishing in #30, a couple of issues before Trixie started.

Appeared

  • Trixie  Bunty: #33 (30 August 1958) – #38 (4 October 1958) [no episode in issue #37]
  • Trixie – Bunty: #53 (17 January 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #55 (31 January 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #59 (28 February 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #65 (11 April 1959) – #68 (2 May 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #74 (13 June 1959) – #76 (27 June 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #80 (1 August 1959)
  • Trixie – Bunty: #84 (22 August 1959)

List of Stories

  • Trixie and the Canary – Bunty: #33
  • Trixie Takes a Bath – Bunty: #34
  • Trixie and the Parrot – Bunty: #35
  • Trixie and the Stunt Pilot – Bunty: #36
  • Trixie and the Cake – Bunty: #38
  • Trixie the Sailor – Bunty: #53
  • Trixie the Glamour Girl – Bunty: #55
  • Trixie and the Shadow Game – Bunty: #59
  • Trixie and the Cats – Bunty: #65
  • Trixie and the Masks – Bunty: #66
  • Trixie and the Kite – Bunty: #67
  • Trixie and the Bluebottle – Bunty: #68
  • Trixie and the Mountaineer – Bunty: #74
  • Trixie and the White Rabbit – Bunty: #75
  • Trixie Gets “Caught”” in the Rain – Bunty: #76 (2 page story)
  • Trixie and the Pear Tree – Bunty: #80
  • Trixie – Photographer – Bunty: #81
  • Trixie Goes Fishing – Bunty: #84

Hetty

Plot

Hetty follows a young girl in humorous situations. The strips were usually 1/2 page but sometimes were full pages. Each strip had it’s own title.

Notes

Appeared

  • Hetty Bunty: #22 (14 June 1958) – #30 (9 August1958) [no episode in issue #24]

Other Appearances

  • Hetty in “Catch as Cats Can” – Bunty Annual 1960
  • A Poser for Hetty – Bunty Annual 1961
  • Hetty – Bunty Annual 1961
  • Hetty – Bunty Annual 1963

List of Stories

  • Hetty’s Hair-do – Bunty: #22
  • Hetty the Baby-sitter – Bunty: #23
  • Unlucky Dip – Bunty: #25
  • Hetty the Painter – Bunty: #26
  • Hetty Makes a Slip – Bunty: #27
  • Hetty Puts her Foot in it! – Bunty: #28
  • Hetty’s Strange Ambition – Bunty: #29
  • Hetty and her Hiccups – Bunty: #30

Little Caroline – the Teenage Teacher

Plot:

Caroline West, is the youngest teacher at Ellesmere Girls’ School. She is the school’s riding mistress,  a subject that the headmistress, Mrs Braydon, doesn’t fully approve of.

Notes:

  • Text Story

Appeared:

  • Little Caroline – the Teenage Teacher –  Bunty: #16 (3 May 1958) – #21 (7 June 1958)
  • Little Caroline – the Teenage Teacher –  Bunty: #33 (30 August 1958)
  • Little Caroline – the Teenage Teacher –  Bunty: #35 (13 September 1958)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances:

  • Little Caroline – the Teenage Teacher – Bunty Annual 1960

Elvirita

Plot

Elvirita Torreso a young Spanish girl, had to deal with a lot of tragedy in her life. While on holidays in Germany her parents died of Polio. She planned to go back to Spain to the house of her old nurse but on the way the plane crashed. Luckily Elvirita survived but was left stranded in a Swiss village with no money to get back to Barcelona.

Notes

Appeared

  • Elvirita – Bunty: #31 (16 August 1958) – #40 (18 October 1958)
  • Elvirita – Bunty: #42 (01 November 1958) – #49 (20 December 1958)
  • Elvirita – Bunty: #60 (7 March 1959)
  • Happy Birthday Elvirita – Bunty: #64 (4 April 1959)
  • Elvirita – Bunty: #80 (25 July 1959)
  • Elvirita – Bunty #82 (8 August 1959)
  • Elvirita – Bunty #84 (22 August 1959) – #88 (19 September 1959)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Elvirita: The Wishing Well  – Bunty Annual 1960
  • Elvirita – Bunty Annual 1961

Tess of the Timberlands

Plot:

Tess Wilson lives in a log cabin in the middle of the Oregan Forests of America. Her father was a forestry ranger and she often helped him and the animals in the area.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Tess of the Timberlands –  Bunty: #19 (24 May 1958) – #30 (9 August 1958)
  • Tess of the Timberlands (text story) – Bunty: #32 (23 August 1958)
  • Tess of the Timberlands (text story) – Bunty: #36 (20 September 1958)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances:

  • Tess of the Timberlands –  Bunty Annual 1960

 

Soldier Sally / Lance-Corporal Sally

Plot:

In 1940, Selina Howard (who goes by nickname Sally), joins the A.T.S. ( Auxiliary Territorial Service) to help with the war effort. She does not make a good first impression on Sergeant Rathbone, Sally is determined not to be just another number and to keep her individuality, she is not afraid to speak up, which is lucky for a new friend when she falls sick with appendicitis and Sally goes over her Corporal to get a medical assistance.

Sally proves her worth and later returns in a sequel Lance-Corporal Sally.

Notes:

  • Text story
  • Spot Art: Ron Forbes

Appeared:

  • Soldier Sally –  Bunty: #10 (22 March 1958) – #24 (28 June 1958)
  • Lance-Corporal Sally – Bunty: #53 (17 January 1959) – #61 (14 March 1959)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Lance Corporal Sally – Bunty Annual 1960

 

Bunty Holiday Special 2002

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)