Category Archives: Mandy

The Secret Nurse

Mandy,

Plot

Mary Miller wants to be a nurse, but lack of proper education is a barrier. So Mary takes a ward maid job in the hospital so she can learn about nursing secretly.

nurse

Notes

  • Art: “B. Jackson”
  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch as “Ik wil verpleegster worden” – Tina: #17/1976-#32/1976.

Appeared

  • The Secret Nurse–  Mandy: #455 (4 October 1975) – #465 (December 13 1975).
  • Reprinted (as text story) – Mandy: #972 (31 August 1985) – #981 (2 November 1985)

Other Appearances:

  • The Girl with the Smile – Mandy Annual 1976

 

Perri

Mandy, ,

Plot

Rosanna Lee’s life has been the gypsy caravan and travelling from farm to farm with her parents who do seasonal work. Then Mrs Lee dies and Mr Lee reacts badly, becoming harsh, bitter and – to Rosanna’s dismay – giving up the gypsy way of life. He is now settling down and taking a job in a district where people look down on them because they are gypsies, and their employers, the Bullards, are just as hard. Rosanna finds solace in an orphaned fawn she names Perri but must keep her secret.

Perri

Notes

  • Artist: Hugh Thornton-Jones

Appeared

  • Perri –  Mandy:  #971 (24 August 1985) – #988 (21 December 1985)
  • Translated into Dutch as “Perri het hertejong” (Perri the fawn) and published in Peggy Album (Holco, 1986 series) #1 (1986).

 

Bonny and Belinda

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Twins Bonny and Belinda live in a Victorian Orphanage. The wealthy Langleys adopt Bonny because they like her spirited nature but leave Belinda because she is shy. Bonny and Belinda will not be parted, so Bonny smuggles Belinda into the house, where Belinda can pretend to be Bonny at times and enjoy the Langley luxuries.

B&B

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne

Appeared

  • Bonny and Belinda –  Mandy:  #966 (20 July 1985) – #982 (9 November 1985)

 

Topsy Turvey

Mandy

Plot

Topsy Turvey is given a kangaroo pendant from her Great-Uncle Fred in Australia. It comes with a note to say it comes from an Aborigine witch-doctor and Topsy is to use it sparingly and wisely. Topsy soon realises what this means – the pendant has the power to upside-down the personality of anyone who looks at it, such as nice people turning nasty or shy people confident. If used correctly, the pendant’s power is very helpful, but it backfires on  Topsy if it is not. Eventually the pendant loses its power from overuse.

Turvey 2

Notes

Appeared

  • Topsy Turvey –  Mandy:  #966 (20 July 1985) – #977 (5 October 1985)

 

April Fool

Mandy, , ,

Plot:

April Matthews is being blackmailed into taking second fiddle to Shirley Kingsley and being her slave so Shirley can be the star of the school. The blackmail is that Shirley’s father is threatening to withdraw his loan that the Matthews family need for the treatment to save the sight of April’s sister Tina. The blackmail has April being labelled “April Fool”.

In the end April discovers Shirley tricked her into it all and Tina got her sight cured elsewhere. Shirley gets caught out and has no choice but to confess to the headmistress.

April

Notes:

  • Writer: Maureen Hartley
  • Artist: Don Walker

Appeared:

  • April Fool –  Mandy:  #959 (1 June 1985) – #975 (21 September 1985)

 

Aunts at War!

Mandy

Plot

Jill Marsden goes to live with her aunts May and Jessie while her parents are away and finds herself in the middle of a battlefield. The aunts have fallen out over something they can’t even remember, but each blames the other for it. Their feud has become so intense that they have divided the house between them with white lines, right down to the dining table. Even their dogs join in the feud, and the whole district is suffering because of the aunts’ quarrel. Jill is trying to find a way to make the aunts see reason but her efforts always seem to go wrong and make their squabbling worse.

Aunts

Matters come to a head when a film crew comes to the village. The aunts’ quarrelling spoils the shoot and the film crew leaves in disgust. As each aunt blames the other for it and another quarrel erupts, Jill loses her temper and shouts at them both over their stupid quarrelling. She tells them she is fed up with it, they are both to blame for spoiling the shoot, they are as bad as each other, and whatever started the feud should have been over years ago. She then gets so upset she runs off and gets hit by a car.

When Jill regains consciousness in hospital she discovers that the scolding and her accident have shocked her aunts into stopping their feud. They are now at peace and have removed the dividing lines in their house.

Notes

Appeared

  • Aunts at War! –  Mandy:  #963 (29 June 1985) – #973 (7 September 1985)

 

The Tammy Trilogy

Mandy, ,

Plot

A trilogy of serials starring Tammy Thumbe. Her next door neighbour Bobby Brown is into chemistry, but Bobby’s formulas have strange effects on Tammy. In her first story, Tiny Tammy, Tammy shrinks whenever she gets wet. In her second story, Where’s Tammy?, Tammy becomes invisible. In her third story, Be Your Age, Tammy!, Tammy behaves either too young or too old for her age.

Tammy

Notes

  • Artist: Andrew Wilson

Appeared

  • Tiny Tammy – Mandy: #1150 (28 January 1989) – #1164 (6 May 1989)
  • Where’s Tammy? – Mandy: #1165 (13 May 1989) – #1176 (29 July 1989)
  • Be Your Age, Tammy! Mandy #1229 (4 August 1990)- #1238 (6 October 1990)

Other Appearances:

  • “Where’s Tammy” – Mandy Annual 1991

 

Sleeping Beauty from the Stars

Mandy, ,

Plot

On the stern planet Xerox, a beauty queen is banished to the planet Peutridd for playing practical jokes. En route to Peutridd, she escapes aboard an Earth space capsule and falls asleep. On Earth, she is awakened Sleeping-Beauty style by a kiss from reporter Percy Prince. With Percy’s help she takes the name of Stella Saturn and gets a job as a fashion model. But when the Xeroxians discover Stella’s escape they send two of their Collectors to recapture her, which forces her and Percy to go on the run.

Sleeping Beauty

Notes

Appeared

  • Sleeping Beauty from the Stars –  Mandy: #958 (25 May 1985) – #969 (10 August 1985)

 

Meg Among the Slaves

Mandy, , ,

Plot:

In Victorian times, Meg Jackson applies for a sewing job at Hamble’s, the poshest store in London. She ends up at Hamble’s seamstress school, but discovers that Mr Jones the manager and his sister are cruel employers who make their apprentices work in appalling conditions. Then Meg begins to suspect Mr Jones of stealing from the store.

Meg

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Meg Among the Slaves – Mandy: #195 (10 October 1970) – #208 (9 January 1971)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #586 (08 April 1978) – #598 (01 July 1978)
  • Reprinted – Mandy:  #958 (25 May 1985) – #971 (24 August 1985)