Category Archives: M&J

Nurses

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Plot

Soap opera concerning four first-year student nurses (Verity, Amanda, Jackie and Kay) at Norchester General Hospital. The girls return in later series and are joined by another student – Chris.

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Notes

  • Artist: Claude Berridge

Appeared

  • Nurses – M&J:  #100 (10 April 1993) – #112 (3 July 1993)
  • Nurses (2) – M&J:  #128 (23  October 1993) – #139 (8 January 1994)
  • Nurses (3) – M&J:  #154 (23  April 1994) – #167 (23 July 1994)
  • Nurses (4) – M&J:  #187 (10 December 1994) – #198 (25 February 1995)

Other Appearances: 

  • Nurses – Mandy Annual 1995
  • Nurses – Mandy Annual 1997
  • Nurses – Mandy Picture Story Library: #193
  • Nurses – Mandy Picture Story Library: #220

She’s My Friend

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Plot

Stacey Day is staying with Aunt Estelle while her parents are abroad. She meets a strange girl named Silvia who is very keen to make friends. But then Stacey discovers that Silvia is jealous and possessive. Moreover, Silvia is a ghost who keeps leading Stacey into danger!

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Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne

Appeared

  • She’s My Friend – M&J:  #90 (30 January 1993) – #102 (24 April 1993)

The Boy Zone

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Plot

Complete stories about boyfriends and romance. Some had happy endings, some had not. Stories included a girl who makes up a boyfriend so she doesn’t feel left out of conversations, this backfires on her when a boy does ask her out, but on hearing she has a “boyfriend” doesn’t want to have anything to do with a two-timer.

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Notes:

  • Writer: Alison Christie (Fitt)
  • Artists: Maria Dembilio (main artist), Guy Peeters, Peter Wilkes
  • The name switched from just “Boy Zone” to “The Boy Zone”
  • Early stories were sometimes reprints of Nikki short stories

Appeared

  • Boy Zone – M&J: #70 (12 September 1992) – #73 (3 October 1992)
  • The Boy Zone – M&J:  #92 (13 February 1993) – #99 (3 April 1993)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #129 (30 October 1993) – #141 (22 January 1994)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #161 (11 June 1994)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #172 (27 August 1994)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #189 (24 December 1994) – #197 (18 February 1995)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J:  #208 (6 May 1995)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #211 (27 May 1995) – #214 (17 June 1995)
  • The Boy Zone  – M&J: #281 (28 September 1996) [art: David Matysiak]

The Proud Willoughbys

Judy, M&J, , , , ,

Plot

Emily and Victoria Willoughby become destitute when their father is lost at sea and their mother is injured in an accident. All their servants leave except the kitchen maid Jenny. The girls are too proud to let anyone find out about their poverty, so they they all turn to running the household themselves with Jenny’s help. But they soon find they have hard lessons to learn, including raising income and Victorian house-cleaning.

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Notes

  • Artist: Oliver Passingham

 Appeared

  • The Proud Willoughbys – Judy: #946 (25 February 1978) – #959 (27 May 1978)
  • Reprinted (as Judy Classic) – M&J:  #84 (16 January 1993) – #101 (18 April 1993)

May and Myrna

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Plot

May Maddox is the model daughter, to the point of some schoolmates calling her a goody-goody. Then May writes an essay where she imagines herself as a much wilder girl named Myrna. Soon after, a real girl named Myrna turns up and she starts causing trouble for May.

Myrna

Notes

 Appeared

  • May and Myrna – M&J:  #86 (2 January 1993) – #96 (13 March 1993)