Category Archives: Bunty

The Old Curiosity Shop

Plot

An adaption of Charles Dickens book. The story follows Nell Trent and her grandfather who run an Old Curiosity Shop in London. Her grandfather trying to secure a good life for Nell ends up gambling money away and borrows money from money lender Quip, who seizes the shop when they cannot pay. Nell and her grandfather are forced to runaway.

Notes

  • Art: Paddy Brennan
  • Writer: Charles Dickens

Appeared

  • The Story the Old Curiosity Shop –  Bunty: #39 (11 October 1958) – #58 (21 February 1959)

Fan-Fan and her Friends

Plot

A humorous cartoon story about a girl Fan-Fan and her group of friends.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Marin
  • Story reprinted from the French magazine “Nano et Nanette”

Appeared

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty: #50 (27 December 1958) – #58 (21 February 1959)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Annual 1960
  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Annual 1963

Summer Specials

  • Fan-Fan and her Friends –  Bunty Summer Special 1967

Little Miss Feather Fingers / Irene Price Pianist of Promise

Plot

Irene Pryce (or Price in the reprint), an orphan and brilliant pianist, was taken in by music teacher Madame Cherrier. The teacher had suffered tragedy in her life when she lost her husband and daughter in accident but Irene had found out they had survived the accident. She didn’t want to get Madame Cherrier, so she investigated secretly.

Notes

  • Text story
  • Reprinted as picture story with new title

Appeared

  • Little Miss Feather Fingers (text) Bunty: #37 (27 September 1958) – #52 (10 January 1959)
  • Reprinted as picture story as Irene Price Pianist of Promise – Bunty: #256 (8 December 1962) – #271 (23 March 1963)

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)
  • Trixie Bunty: #281 (1 June 1963)

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
  • Soldier Sally later reprinted as picture story
  • Picture Story Art: Ian Kennedy

Appeared:

  • Soldier Sally –  Bunty: #10 (22 March 1958) – #24 (28 June 1958)
    • Reprinted as picture story – Bunty: #306 (23 November 1963) – #314 (18 January 1964)
  • Lance-Corporal Sally – Bunty: #53 (17 January 1959) – #61 (14 March 1959)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Lance Corporal Sally – Bunty Annual 1960