Category Archives: M&J

Wendy out West

Plot:

Wendy Harris is living with friends on an American ranch. She discovers that her style of riding is useless in the West and she has to completely re-learn riding in order to ride Western style.

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Notes:

Appeared:

  • Wendy out West – M&J:   #74 (10 October 1992) – #83 (12 December 1992)

Hard-Hearted Harriet

Plot

In Victorian times, Harriet Bond discovers she is living on borrowed time with an incurable illness. She devotes her remaining time to finding good homes for her brothers and sisters. To make them want to leave her, she pretends to turn hard hearted and unloving.

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Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • The reprint in M&J wrongly claimed the story first appeared in Mandy in 1979 when in fact it appeared in Tracy. Although Mandy did have a very similar story “The Girl Who Gave Babies Away”

Appeared

  • Hard-Hearted Harriet – Tracy:  #01 (06  Oct. 1979) – #13 (29 Dec. 1979)
  • Reprinted – Tracy: #213 (29 October 1983) – #225 (21 January 1984)
  • Reprinted (as Mandy classic) – M&J:   #74 (10 October 1992) – #87 (9 January 1993)

Hannah and Herbie

Plot:

Hannah wakes up in a caravan with her dog Herbie and no memory at all. Her parents Rita and Jack Peacock say they are travelling traders, but then Hannah uncovers a clue to a different story about her past and sets out to unravel it.

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Notes:

  • Artist: Tom Hurst

Appeared:

  • Hannah and Herbie – M&J:   #72 (26 September 1992) – #82 (5 December 1992)

Lady Lucy

Plot

Lucy Lamford’s father inherits a stately home and vast fortune. He wants to turn Lucy into a lady, but Lucy resists in the form of a double life: one where she plays the lady as Lucy and the other where she plays herself as a typical scruffy teenager called Lee.

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Notes

  • Artist: Norman Lee

Appeared

  • Lady Lucy – M&J:   #78 (7 November 1992) – #91 (06 February 1993)

Lonely

Plot:

After her parents’ deaths, Anna Jackson goes to live with her half-brother and his wife. But Anna soon finds they don’t care about her and she gets even more lonely because she does not know anyone in her new town. Then Anna comes across a sett of orphaned badgers and finds friendship in caring for them.

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Notes:

  • Artist: Bert Hill

Appeared:

  • Lonely – M&J:   #66 (15 August 1992) – #76 (24 October 1992)