Category Archives: Mandy

Lucky

Plot:

Adventures of Lucky the cat, as told by Lucky himself.

Lucky
Lucky  (Art: Wilf Street)

luckyLucky:  #703  – #712 (Art: José Casanovas)

Notes

  • Artist: Wilf Street
  • Artist: José Casanovas [Lucky  – Mandy: #703 (05 Jul. 1980) – #712 (06 Sep. 1980)]
  • Lucky (#898 -#900), reprinted and translated to Dutch – Conny: #3/1985

Appeared:

  • Lucky –  Mandy: #624 (30 December 1978) – #632 (24 February 1979)
  • Lucky  – Mandy: #703 (05 July 1980) – #712 (06 September 1980)
  • Lucky – Mandy: #898 (31 March 1984) – #900 (14 April 1984)
  • Lucky – Mandy #905 (19 May 1984)  – #906 (26 May 1984)
  • Lucky (reprint) – M&J: #13 (10 August 1991) – #20 (28 September 1991)
  • Lucky (reprint) – M&J: #66 (15 August 1992) -#73 (03 October 1992)

Other Appearances

  • Lucky – Mandy Annual 2002

 

The Quest of Anna Midnight

Plot

Anna Midnight, a talented artist, was left on the doorstep of a Children’s Home as a baby. Her surname is Midnight because that was when she was found, but her true identity is a mystery. She goes in search of a travelling artist in Cornwall because she is convinced he is her father.

Midnight

Notes

Appeared

  • The Quest of Anna Midnight– #253 (20 November 1971) – #266 (19 February 1972)
  • Reprinted – Mandy:  #623 (23 December 1978) – #636 (24 March 1979)

 

The Willing Hands of Meg Smith

Plot

In Victorian times, Meg Smith turns her hand to any job available to make ends meet for her younger siblings.

willing hands meg smith
The Willing Hands of Meg Smith – 1967

Meg
The Willing Hands of Meg Smith – 1977

Notes

  • Reprinted with different artist
  • Art: Len Potts (1977)

Appeared

  • The Willing Hands of Meg Smith –  Mandy: circa #42 (4 November 1967) – (?)
  • Reprinted – Mandy:  #557 (17 September 1977) – #571 (24 December 1977)

 

Penny and the Portrait

Plot

Penny Fairfax has lived in a children’s home until she goes to live with distant relatives. Penny unearths a portrait of a girl who looks just like her. The portrait is of Miranda Fairfax, an ancestress who was burned as a witch. Now Miranda is exerting an evil power over Penny to wreak revenge on the descendants of the people who burned her.

Portrait

Notes

  • Artist: Guy Peeters

Appeared

  • Penny and the Portrait – Mandy: #557 (17 September 1977) – #568 (3 December 1977)

 

Rose and Mary

Plot:

Rose Kemp, adopted as a baby, has always wanted a sister. It comes true when she discovers her twin sister Mary was stolen as a baby, and now Mary has come to live with her. But Mary’s upbringing with the people who stole her has made her rough, bad-mannered and very difficult to get along with.

Mary 1

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Rose and Mary –  Mandy:  #557 (17 Sep. 1977) – #567 (26 Nov. 1977)

 

Rosie of the Iron Road

Plot

When a rival railway company lays claim to a stretch of land over which Rosie Dickson and her friends are laying a track, things get violent. When Rosie’s track is completed first, the rival company stages a crash, and Rosie is badly injured while saving lives.

Rosie

Notes

  • Artist: Len Potts
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Saskia’s spoorweg” – Debbie #17 (1979).

Appeared

  • Rosie of the Iron Road –  Mandy: #516 (4 December 1976) – #529 (5 March 1977)