Category Archives: Bunty

Ten Against The Tryptons

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Plot:

Long Barrow School had been invaded by girls from the planet Trypton, and placed under a “Dome of Blackness” cutting it off from the outside world. Trypton would soon no longer support life, and the girls had been sent to test the intelligence on Earth. If the ten chosen Long Barrow pupils proved to be inferior to their Trypton counterparts, then the invaders from space would come to Earth as rulers.

Ten Against The Tryptons

Notes:

  • Artist: Tony Thewenetti

Appeared:

  • Ten Against The Tryptons–  Bunty:  #1110 (21 April 1979) –  #1121 (7 July 1979)

 

Ballerina on a String

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Plot:

When Jenny Lane realised she was not wanted by her aunt and uncle, she ran away and got a job in a marionette theatre as Sugar Plum, the ballerina puppet.  Someone else at the circus had guessed Jenny’s secret and wanted to help her continue her ballet training, but she could only guess at her mystery friend’s identity.

Ballerina On A String

Notes:

  • Artist: A.E. Allen

Appeared:

  • Ballerina On A String –  Bunty:  #1105 (17 March 1979) – #1119 (23 June 1979)

 

Bringing Up the Barkers!

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Plot:

When the rough and ready Barker family inherited Janner Hall, Walter the Dalmatian, who was part of the inheritance was appalled. Then Aunt Flo Pooter arrived and began smoothing off their rough edges and Walter was better pleased. He considered her to be one of his “own sort”.

Bringing Up the Barkers!

Notes:

  • Art: Andy Tew

Appeared:

  • Bringing Up the Barkers!  –  Bunty: # 1604 (8 October 1988) – #1618 (14 Jan. 1989)
  • The Barkers–  Bunty: #1758 (21 September 1991) – #1770 (14 December 1991)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Bringing Up the Barkers!  – Bunty Annual 1990 [Artist: Andy Tew]

Summer Specials

  • Bringing Up the Barkers!  – Bunty Summer Special 1989

 

Life in Bunty

Bunty,

Plot:

A diary of the week events in the fictional Bunty Office, narrated by one worker,  Kirstie.

Life in Bunty

Notes:

  • Text Story

Appeared:

  • Life in Bunty  –  Bunty:   #1577 (2 April 1988) – (?)

 

Other Appearances:

  • Life in Bunty (as picture story) – Bunty Annual 1990

 

No Time for Terri!

Bunty,

Plot

Terri Dempster thought her dreams had come true when her parents returned from working abroad, and looked forward to leaving boarding school and spending as much  time as possible with them. So it came as a shock to find her parents had taken on Heartvale House and turned it into a Children’s home, Terri began to wish things had stayed as they were!

No Time for Terri!

Notes

  • Art: Douglas Perry

Appeared

  • No Time for Terri! –  Bunty:  #1604 (08 October 1988) – #1614 (17 December 1988)

Other Appearances:

  • No Time for Terri!–  Bunty Annual 1990 [Art: Douglas Perry]

 

Cherry’s Challenge

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Plot

Fourteen year old Cherry Smith helped her parents run their small farm. Her best chum was a colt named Fancy that she helped break in.  Cherry was trying to form a team to enter gymkhana events.

Cherry’s Challenge

Notes

  • Art: Carlos Freixas
  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch  as“Cherry’s uitdaging!” – Penny 11/1989
  • Reprinted and translated to German as “Die Mannschaft des Jahres” – Wendy 20/1989 (Character Cherry Smith is renamed Vicky Euler)

Appeared

  • Cherry’s Challenge–  Bunty:   #1604 (08 October 1988) – #1615 (24 December 1988)

 

The Trail Of The Laughing Dolls

Bunty

Plot:

Pinkie Wayne was a British Secret Service agent operating in a German occupied France in 1940.  Her mission was to find a series of dolls each containing a secret message, left in various places by her sister, Sylvia, who was now a prisoner in German hands.

The Trail Of The Laughing Dolls

Notes:

Appeared:

  • The Trail Of The Laughing Dolls –  Bunty:   #98 (28 November 1959) – #109 (13 February 1960)

 

Heroines of History

Bunty,

Plot:

The stories of famous females from history. Such as Elizabeth Fry, the English prison reformer and Florence Nightingale the famous nurse.

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Notes:

  • A one page strip, it would often appear sporadically and sometimes appeared as back page feature.

Appeared:

  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #81 (01 August 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #84 (22 August 1959) – #87 (12 September 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #92 (17 October 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #97 (21 November 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #99 (5 December 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #102 (26 December 1959)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #107 (30 January 1960)
  • Heroines of History – Bunty: #127 (18 June 1959)

List of stories:

  • Heroines of History – Kate Barlass – Bunty: #81
  • Heroines of History – Madeleine de Vecheres – Bunty: #84
  • Heroines of History – Lady Derby – Bunty: #85
  • Heroines of History – Madame Grotius – Bunty: #86
  • Heroines of History – Flora MacDonald -Bunty: #87
  • Heroines of History – Lady Nithsdale – Bunty: #92
  • Heroines of History – Countess Joan of Brittany – Bunty: #97
  • Heroines of History – Florence Nightingale – Bunty: #99
  • Heroines of History – Countess Catharina of Schwarzburg – Bunty: #102
  • Heroines of History – Elizabeth Fry – Bunty: #107
  • Heroines of History – Joan of Arc – Bunty: #127

 

The Silver Skates

Bunty

Plot:

In Holland, Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel want to compete in December’s great ice skating race on the canal and have a chance of winning the precious prize of silver skates.  Their father is very ill and Hans and Gretel have to work hard  to support the family.

silver skates

Notes:

  • An adaptation of Mary Mapes Dodge novel.

Appeared:

  • The Story of The Silver Skates in pictures –  Bunty:  #101 (19 December 1959) – #109 (13 February 1960)