Category Archives: Mandy

The Mystery of Mavora

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Plot

Shirley Duffield is on holiday at her grandfather’s cottage beside the sea. She becomes fascinated by Mavora, a rock that looks like a mermaid combing her hair and beckoning. Legend has it that Mavora has lured many seamen to their deaths, and Shirley is now hearing strange voices that come from the direction of the rock. Then Shirley finds a comb that suggests that there may have been a real mermaid.

Mavora

Notes

  • Artist: Richard Neillands
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Het mysterie van Mavora” – Debbie #21 (1980).

Appeared

  • The Mystery of Mavora –  Mandy:  #528 (26 February 1977) – #536 (23 April 1977)

 

Margie in the Middle [1977]

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Plot

Margie Heath is tired of being “the middle one” and being called dull and stupid because she does not shine like her sisters Babette (ballet) and Irene (piano). Grandma Heath encourages Margie’s talent for painting huge pictures, but her family does not understand.

Margie

Notes

Appeared

  • Margie in the Middle –  Mandy: #523 (22 January 1977) – #537 (30 April 1977)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #1234 (8 September 1990) – #1248 (15 December 1990)

 

Mums Go Home!

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Plot

Rona Hollister’s grandmother wants Rona’s widowed father to remarry so she can have a new mother. But Rona does not want a new mother.

Mums

Notes

  • Artist: Claude Berridge
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Ik wil geen moeder!”) – Debbie #37 (1983).

Appeared

  • Mums Go Home! –  Mandy:  #530 (12 March 1977) – #540 (21 May 1977)

 

A Ticket for Timmy

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Plot

Carol Burns and her family are going to emigrate to Canada in a few months. Carol is trying to raise the £100 to pay the fare for Timmy, her beloved sheepdog.

Timmy

Notes

  • Writer: Maureen Hartley
  • Artist: Len Potts
  • The first reprint run was reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Kazan” –  Debbie #13 (1979).

Appeared

  • A Ticket for Timmy  – Mandy: #114 (22  March 1969) – #128 (28  June 1969)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #520 (01 January 1977) – #533 (2 April 1977)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #1026 (2 October 1986) –  #1040 (20 December 1986)

Is He My Dad?

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Plot

Kay Paxton’s father crash-landed in Russia and was imprisoned for seven years. He has now returned, but Colonel McLintock of the British Secret Service has warned Kay that the man may be an imposter and Russian spy. She is to keep an eye on him and report anything unusual. Kay’s spying has her not knowing one way or the other about the man claiming to be her father.

Dad

Notes

Appeared

  • Is He My Dad? –  Mandy: #524 (29 January 1977) – #533 (2 April 1977)

 

Charmette

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Plot:

Charmette is a fairy who inhabits a wishing well. Her job is to make sure wishes are granted to satisfaction. But sometimes it doesn’t go smoothly, such as when unpleasant types use the well.

Charmette

Notes:

  • Issues #648-654 and 660 were translated into Dutch (without change in title) and published in Mariska Starstrip #3 (circa 1984). There may have been an earlier printing in Dutch that remains to be documented.

Appeared:

  • Charmette –  Mandy: #526 (12 February 1977) – (?)
  • Charmette –  Mandy: #545 (25 June 1977)
  • Charmette –  Mandy: #596 (17 June 1978
  • Charmette –  Mandy: #606 (26 August 1978)
  • Charmette –  Mandy: #648 (17 June 1979) – #654 (28 July 1979)
  • Charmette –  Mandy: #660 (8 September 1979)
  • Charmette –  Mandy: circa #830 (11 December 1982)
  • Reprints – M&J: #21(5 October 1991) – #28 (23 November 1991)

 

No Love for Linda

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Plot

Linda King tours clubs and theatres with her parents, King and Queenie. They abuse her and do not allow her to express her talent for singing or mix with other people. Linda begins to suspect there is some mystery about her past when she recognises a house in Hanworth as her old home. The mystery deepens when Linda discovers her family records and finds that “Linda” is nearly eighteen, but she is only thirteen.

Linda 1

Notes

Appeared

  • No Love for Linda –  Mandy:  #519 (25 December 1976) – #530 (12 March 1977)

 

Lucy’s Loving Cake (1986)

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Plot:

Lucy Davis and her family move into an old house near her father’s new job. Lucy finds some flour left in the pantry by the previous owners and bakes a cake with it. After her brother steals and eats a piece of the cake, he becomes nice to her. An old book in the attic informs Lucy that an old lady had the secret of “loving flour”, which died with her. She gave some of the flour to a young girl to mend her parents’ quarrel. Now, anyone who eats a piece of the loving cake becomes extra loving for a period of time. Lucy hides the cake and periodically takes a piece of it as needed for anyone or any situation requiring extra loving.

Notes:

  • Artist: Richard Neillands

Appeared:

  • Lucy’s Loving Cake –  Mandy: #1002 (29 March 1986) –  #1015 (28 June 1986)

Other Appearances:

  • Lucy’s Loving Cake –  Mandy Annual 1987
  • Lucy’s Loving Cake –  Mandy Annual 1988

Baby Bunting

Mandy

Plot:

Barbara Bunting has lived an isolated existence under Lady Tarbett, who lives in a private world that is old-fashioned and hopelessly out of touch with the modern world. When Barbara’s governess falls ill, she is thrust into modern life and school. She does not have the tools and experience to deal with them and so is nicknamed “Baby  Bunting”. Barbara is learning to look after herself, but Lady Tarbett is still living in her private world.

Bunting

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Baby Bunting –  Mandy:  #471(24 Jan. 1976) – #485 (01 May 1976)