Category Archives: Bunty

The Flights of Flopear

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Plot:

Tessa Worth had found a time-travel machine in the shape of a giant rabbit, named Flopear.  When she pressed a button she didn’t realise  that she would be taken to the Planet Xargo, where Flopear was originally built as a birthday present for the mean tempered Princess Meana. Eventually she is able to get back to Earth, Even after she returns home, she continues to spend time travelling the universe with Flopear, as part of her job as Deputy  to a Universal Dictator.

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Notes:

  • Art: Robert MacGillivray
  • A Milky Way Dog makes an appearance in the story. Mojo the Milky Way Dog was a story also drawn by MacGillivray for Bunty in 1979.

Appeared:

  • The Flights of Flopear–  Bunty: #1292 (16 October 1982) – #1314 (19 March 1983)
  • The Flights of Flopear–  Bunty: #1359 (28 January 1984) – #1384 (21 July  1984)

 

 Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Annual 1983 [Artist: Robert MacGillivray]
  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Annual 1984 [Artist: Robert MacGillivray]
  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Annual 1986 [Artist: Robert MacGillivray]
  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Annual 1987 [Artist: Robert MacGillivray]

Summer Specials

  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Summer Special 1983 [Art: Robert MacGillivray]
  • The Flights of Flopear – Bunty Summer Special 1984 [Art: Robert MacGillivray]

The Fate of the Fairleys

Bunty, , ,

Plot:

In the early 1900s,  after their mother dies Angie and her younger siblings May and Jimmy, runaway from an orphanage so they won’t be separated. Angie had found a picture of a house with an address on the back in her mother’s possessions and they set off to find it. They are surprised when the old woman takes them to stay in an old playhouse rather than the main house.

fate of the fairleys

Notes:

  • Art: Douglas Perry

Appeared:

  • The Fate of the Fairleys–  Bunty: #1293 (23 October 1982) – #1319 (23 April 1983)

 

Susan of Sunnysides / Sue of Starholme

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Plot

Susan “Sue” Anderson was an Assistant Housemother at Sunnyside’s Children’s home. It was a job she thoroughly enjoyed, though it could be tiring. Sue returned running her own children’s home Starholme.

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Susan of Sunnysides (Bunty)

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Sue of Sunnysides (Mandy)

Notes

  • First appeared as a text story, it had a sequel with a different title.
  • It was later updated into picture story format wit the original title
  • Unusually as well as being in Bunty, it appeared as text story in Mandy (possibly a reprint) under the slightly revised title “Sue of Sunnysides”
  • Art: Hugh Thornton-Jones (Bunty 1982 series)

Appeared:

  • Susan of Sunnysides (text story) –  Bunty:  #90 (3 October 1959)  – #108 (6 February 1960)
  • Sue of Starholme (text story) – Bunty #138  (3 September 1960)- #156 (7 January 1961)
  • Sue of Starholme (text story) – Bunty #177 (3 June 1961) – (?)
  • Sue of Sunnysides (text story) – Mandy:  (?) – #42 (4 November 1967)(reprint?)
  • Susan of Sunnysides –  Bunty:  #1288 (18 September 1982)  – #1291 (09 October 1982)
  • Susan of Sunnysides –  Bunty:  #1304 (8 January 1983)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Susan of Sunnysides (text story) – Bunty Annual 1961
  • Sue of Starholme (text story) – Bunty Annual 1962
  • Susan of Sunnysides – Bunty Annual 1980 [Artist: Peter Kay]
  • Susan of Sunnysides – Bunty Annual 1984 [Artist: Hugh Thornton-Jones]

Summer Specials

  • Susan of Sunnysides – Bunty Summer Special 1984 [Art: Hugh Thornton-Jones]

 

Jackie Frost

Bunty,

Plot:

When twelve year old Jacinda, a scullery maid from over a hundred years before, was found frozen solid in an old ice house at Sally Master’s new home, Sally and her parents decided to pass her off as a cousin, re-naming her Jackie Frost.

jackie frost

Notes:

  • Art: Carlos Freixas

Appeared:

  • Jackie Frost–  Bunty:  #1280 ( 24 July 1982) – #1291 (09 October 1982)

 

The Kids of Grim Hall

Bunty, ,

Plot:

In the year 1851, life was hard for the kids of Grimshaw Orphanage, know to them as Grim Hall.  Alice Hawkins and three of her friends had escaped and gone to London, hoping to tell Queen Victoria of their plight.

kids of grim hall

Notes:

  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch as“Naar de koningin!” (“To the Queen”) – Debbie super stripstory #18 (1987)

Appeared:

  • The Kids of Grim Hall–  Bunty: #1281 (31 July 1982) – #1290 (02 October 1982)

 

“Don’t Speak to Me, Mum!”

Bunty, ,

Plot:

Shirley Weston had lived at Bunbury Castle where her mother was cook to Sir Charles Merrywill. When Shirley won a scholarship to Rossdene, a private boarding school, she found most of the girls were from wealthy families. When Shirley’s friends mistook her for Sir Charle’s niece, she didn’t deny it, but problems arose when Shirley’s mother took a job  as a cook at the school.

dont speak to me mum

Notes:

  • Art: Carlos Freixas

Appeared:

  • “Don’t Speak to Me, Mum!”–  Bunty:  ? – #1291 (09 October 1982)

 

Scatty Matty the School’s Last Hope

Bunty

Plot:

Matilda “Matty” Trott had been tricked by her schoolmates into entering a contest to find the Rippley Rosebud.  All entrants were to be given tests not just of beauty, but of initiative.  The winner would accompany the reigning beauty queen the Rose of Rippley during the forthcoming carnival.

scatty matty

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Notes:

  • Artist: Antonio Borrell

Appeared:

  • Scatty Matty The School’s Last Hope – Bunty: #775 (18 November 1972) – #784 (20 January 1973).
  • Reprinted –  Bunty:  #1275 (19 June 1982) – #1284 (21 August 1984)