Plot:
In 1854 Millie joins with Florence Nightingale to help with nursing in Crimea during the war, against her father’s wishes.
Notes:
Appeared:
- Millie Castle Nurse with Nightingale– Bunty: #111 (27 February 1960) – #126 (11 June 1960)
Category Archives: Bunty
Molly in Lonely Wood
Plot:
Molly is confined to a wheelchair after a fall from a horse and becomes fed up with life. But then she starts helping a Mrs Wilson a naturalist who is writing a book about the animals that live in a wood near her home and her recovery started to improve.
Notes:
- Artist: Ken Hunter
Appeared:
- Molly in Lonely Wood – Bunty: #01 (18 January 1958) – #20 (31 May 1958)
- Reprinted – Debbie: #86 (5 October 1974) – #104 (8 February 1975)
Kay of the 5 Horse-Shoes / Kay Hamilton – Show Jumper
Plot:
Kay Hamilton was the youngest member of staff at at a famous riding school – The 5 Horse-Shoes. She had proven herself gifted at handling horses so Hector Deane, the owner, had decided to let her try her skill in the show ring.
Kay returns in a sequel in Kay Hamilton- Show Jumper. She is still the only girl groom at the 5 Horse-Shoes and she wished to train and ride a show-jumper of her own. Against Mr Deane’s wishes she buys with her own money an old champion White Star that had been sold off for slaughter. She tried to prove to Mr Deane that White Star could be a star show-jumper, and he agrees to let her house her at the stable but she will have to pay the same as any other client.
Notes:
- Appeared first as text story with spot art by Jimmy Crighton
- Returned in a sequel as a picture story.
- In the text story Kay’s surname is wrongly listed as Hammond in some episodes.
Appeared:
- Kay of the 5 Horse-Shoes (text) – Bunty: #01 (18 January 1958) – #15 (26 April 1958)
- Kay Hamilton – Show Jumper – Bunty: #51 (03 January 1959) – #64 (04 April 1959)
Other Appearances:
- Kay Hamilton – Show Jumper – Bunty Annual 1960
Orphan of the Circus / Star of the Circus
Plot:
Lili Monette, grew up in the circus and is a skilled trick rider. Then after her mother dies in a tragic trapeze accident, the circus owner Max Maynard, wanted her to take her mother’s place doing the dangerous leap of death stunt. Maynard manipulates Lili, by promising to give her closest friend Pipo, the clown, his job back if she does the stunt. She does not know that he had got rid of Pipo in the first place by telling him if he stayed away from the circus he wouldn’t make Lili do the trapeze. Meanwhile the fortune teller foretells death in the cards, and her trapeze partner Felix tries to persuade Maynard not to go through with his plan.
Lili returns in a sequel Star of the Circus
Notes:
Appeared:
- Orphan of the Circus – Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #21 (7 June 1958)
- Star of the Circus – Bunty: #23 (21 June 1958) – #36 (20 September 1958)
Parachute Nurse
Plot:
The story follows a nurse Susie Peters, that is also an expert parachutist, which is useful with her job at the small Mounted Police Post at Beaver Creek.
Notes:
- Artist: Ron Forbes
Appeared:
- Parachute Nurse – Bunty: #01 (18 January 1958) – #32 (23 August 1958)
Other Appearances:
- Parachute Nurse – Bunty Annual 1960
The Dancing Life of Moira Kent
Plot
Follows the life of Moira Kent an aspiring ballerina, from a young girl to adulthood. Her grandfather who starts off disapproving turns into one of her biggest supporters and she has many adventures on her way to stardom.
Notes
- Artist: Ron Smith
- Artist Bunty Annual 1967 – Peter Kay
- After inital long run, the story returned with different titles, though still with the name”Moira Kent” somewhere in the title.
Appeared
- The Dancing Life of Moira Kent– Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #137 (27 August 27 1960)
- Episodes #1-57, reprinted – Bunty: #348 (12 September 1964) – #400 (11 September 1965)
- Episodes #58-89, reprinted – Bunty: #485 (29 April 1967) – ?
- Episodes #90-137, reprinted – Bunty: #876 (26 October 1974) – #923 (20 September 1975)
- Partially reprinted – Lucky Charm #23
- No More Dancing for Moira Kent – Bunty: 244 (15 September 1962) – #270 (16 March 1963)
- Moria Kent and the Disappearing Ballerinas – Bunty: #504 (9 September 1967) – #507 (30 September 1967)
- Reprinted with different artist in Bunty Picture Story Library #01
- Moira Kent’s Dancing Double – Bunty: circa #523 (20 January 1968) – #536 (20 April 1968)
Other Appearances:
Annual Appearances
- The Dancing Life of Moira Kent – Bunty Annual 1960
- The Dancing Life of Moira Kent – Bunty Annual 1961
- Moira Kent and the Circus Ballerina – Bunty Annual 1963
- Moira Kent in The Island of Dancers – Bunty Annual 1967
Summer Specials
- No Mates for Maureen (a Moira Kent Story) – Bunty-Judy Summer Special 1975
Picture Story Library
- Moira Kent and the Disappearing Ballerinas – Bunty Picture Story Library #01
- Moira Kent and The Missing Star – Bunty Picture Story Library #07
- The Mystery of the Green Shoes – Bunty Picture Story Library #10
- Please Find My Father! – Bunty Picture Story Library #14
- The Slave of Tregarron – Bunty Picture Story Library #18
- Danger from her Double – Bunty Picture Story Library #23
- The Runaway Dancer– Bunty Picture Story Library #31
- The Secret Ballet – Bunty Picture Story Library #54
- Moira Kent and the Silent One – Bunty Picture Story Library #61
Bimbo and her Baby / Bimbo
Plot:
Bimbo, a french girl, is living on her own in Paris having just finished school. She finds a baby abandoned on a park bench and decides to take him home and care for him. She calls the baby Tiny and she gets some help looking after him from her landlady Madame Bourjou, a rich lady Madame Cotin, and her old school teacher Monsieur Minet. Eventually they find a permanent home for Tiny
She returns in a sequel, simply called Bimbo where she works for an advertising agency, and is given the job of selling a new type of glue.
Notes:
Appeared:
- Bimbo and her Baby – Bunty: #01 (18 January 1958) – #22 (14 June 1958)
- Bimbo – Bunty: #37 (27 September 1958) – #50 (27 December 1958)
Lyn Raymond – Air Stewardess
Plot:
The story follows career girl Lyn Raymond on her job as an air stewardess. Lyn is a quick thinker and problem solver and gets into many adventures in her job.
Notes:
- Text story – Spot art by Ron Forbes
- It was later updated to a picture story.
Appeared:
- Lyn Raymond – Air Stewardess (text story)- Bunty: #01 (18 January 1958) – #9 (15 March 1958)
- Lyn Raymond – Air Stewardess (text story)- Bunty: #31 (16 August 1958)
- Lyn Raymond – Air Stewardess (picture story)- Bunty: #37 (27 September 1958) – #50 (27 December 1958)
Other Appearances:
- Lyn Raymond – Air Stewardess – Bunty Annual 1960
The Girl of the Islands
Plot:
After a storm a toddler is washed up near the Pacific island of Tekalo, the girl is raised by a tribal queen, Zemba, who names her Marina. The only clue to her past is a locket with miniature picture of a lady, which she assumes is her mother. She hopes one day to be reunited with her parents.
Notes:
- Artist: James Walker
Appeared:
- The Girl of the Islands – Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #18 (17 May 1958)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Plot:
An adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel. A Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby, facing debt, decides to sell two enslaved people, Uncle Tom and young Harry, to a slave trader. When Eliza, Harry’s mother, overhears the plan and fears losing her only surviving child, she escapes that night with her son, making a perilous journey across the icy Ohio River toward freedom. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom is sold “down the river” and transported south, on the journey he saves the life of a white child, Eva, leading her grateful father, Augustine St. Clare, to buy Tom and take him to New Orleans.
Notes:
- Artist: Paddy Brennan
- Writer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The tagline for the first episode states “Here we present to you — a world famous story, in pictures drawn by a famous artist” (though they still do not credit artist!)
Appeared:
- The Story in Pictures of Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Bunty: #01 (18 Jan 1958) – #20 (31 May 1958)