Category Archives: Mandy

Sleepy Sally / Sally – the Slave-Girl Star

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Plot

Sally Binks is always falling asleep in class because she is forced to work early in the morning and late at night at her stepmother’s laundry. The headmistress and deputy headmistress don’t act because they dislike Sally. But Sally has ambitions to go on stage and begins to make headway in that area.

Sally

Notes

  • Art: Leslie Otway

Appeared

  • Sleepy Sally – Mandy: #19 (27 May 1967) – #40 (21 October 1967)
  • Reprinted as Sally – The Slave-Girl Star –  Mandy:  #374 (16 March 1974) – #395 (10 August 1974)
  • Reprinted: Lucky Charm #5 (1980)

 

Fay Fearless

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Plot:

Fay Fearless works as an agent for SOS, the code name for a secret Government organisation run by Arthur King, the millionaire owner of Paragon Stores.

Faye

Notes:

  • Artist: Robert MacGillivray
  • Fay Fearless (#414), reprinted and translated into Dutch – monthly Debbie Stripstory #5/1980.
  • Fay Fearless (#415), reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Angela Zonderangst” – Debbie Dubbeldikboek #14 (1979)
  • #414 has another six-pager, which was translated into Dutch and published in monthly Debbie Stripstory #5/1980.

Appeared:

  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #369  (9 February 1974) – (?)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #384  (25 May 1974) – #389 (29 June 1974)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #396  (17 August 1974) – #402 (28 September 1974)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #411 (30 November 1974) – #418 (18 January 1975)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #445 (26 July 1975) – #448 (16 August 1975)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #500  (14 August 1976)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #570  (17 December 1977) – #573 (07 January 1978)
  • Fay Fearless  –  Mandy:  #587  (15 April 1978) – #589 (29 April 1978)

Other Appearances:

  •  Fay Fearless – Mandy Annual 1976

In the Shadow of Shirley [1974]

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Plot

Sandra Dexter is adopted by John and Mary Dickson. They just want Sandra to be happy, but Sandra thinks she has to prove she can be as good as their late daughter, Shirley, who was clever and talented. But Sandra’s attempts to be as good as Shirley and step out from her shadow always go wrong and get her into trouble.

Shirley

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne

Appeared

  • In the Shadow of Shirley  –  Mandy:  (?) –  #388 (22 June 1974)

 

A Friend Like Freda

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Plot:

Freda has always been jealous of Joyce because she is a kind, popular girl. So when Joyce suddenly moves back to the neighbourhood, Freda pretends to be friends with her while secretly causing trouble for her. Joyce soon realises she has an enemy, but does not suspect Freda.

Notes:

  • Writer: Marion Turner (under pen-name: Fiona Turner)
  • Artist: Don Walker

Appeared:

  • A Friend Like Freda  – Mandy: #1185 (30 September 1989) – #1197 (23 December1989)

 

The Girl in the Iron Collar

Mandy

Plot

In the year 871, Rowena, a young Saxon girl, is sentenced to wear an iron collar and be banished from her village for (accidentally) betraying Edmund, the King of East Anglia, to the Vikings, who then killed him. Then she finds the triple-crowned cross of the Angles where King Edmund had hidden it. Without the cross, nobody can claim to be their king, and she helps Alfred of Wessex to take up his rightful role as King of the Saxons. In return, he pardons her and removes her collar.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Girl in the Iron Collar – Mandy:  #22 (17 June 1967) – #31 (19 August 1967)

The Sad Star

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Plot

Annabel Richards has lived with her cruel Aunt Flo and Uncle Fred Barlow since she was two and is forced to drudge for them and her cousins Celia and Shannon. When Annabel gets discovered by a modelling agency and is on the rise to television stardom, this leads to even more cruelty as her guardians set out to profit from her new job.


(The Sad Star – 1971)

Annabel 1
(The Sad Star – 1974)

Notes

  • When The Sad Star was remade as a picture story, its blurb said it was the most popular story-in-type to appear in Mandy. It was popular enough to be reprinted as a text story and as a picture story.

Appeared

  • The Sad Star (text story) – Mandy:  #215 (27 February 1971) – (?)
  • Reprinted as picture story – Mandy: #365 (12 January 1974) – #377 (06 April 1974)
  • Reprinted as picture story – Mandy: #675 (22 December 1979) – #687 (15 March 1980)
  • Reprinted as text story – Mandy: #984 (23 November 1985) – (?)
  • Reprinted as picture story: Mandy #1147 (07 January 1989) – #1159 (1 April 1989)

Picture-Story Polly (1989)

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Plot

Polly Jones is an avid reader of the girls’ comic “Candy”. To improve herself she copies the characters in the strips (chef, humane worker, actress, athlete, etc), but she blunders each time and gets herself into scrapes.

Notes

  • Artist: Tom Hurst

Appeared

  • Picture-Story Polly – Mandy: #1187 (14 October 1989) –  #1197 (23 December 1989)

Other Appearances

  • Picture-Story Polly – Mandy Annual 1992

Alison’s Uncles

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Plot

Alison Greaves is living in a Children’s Home when she finds out she has four uncles. To decide which one will be her guardian she is trying each uncle out in turn. The first three uncles don’t work out: the first was just after her money; Alison met a jealous, scheming cousin with the second; and the third was uncaring and just looked on Alison as a novelty. So it all comes down to whether the fourth does.

Notes

  • Artist: Hugh Thornton-Jones

Appeared

  • Alison’s Uncles – Mandy:  #590 (6 May 1978) – #604 (12 September 1978)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #1190 (4 November 1989) – #1203 (3 February 1990)

School of Secrets [1978]

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Plot

Sara Briggs goes to Offshore Island, a school for children from broken homes. It is run by the sinister Miss Macey and Mr Briggs is giving Miss Macey the money for it. But Sara is getting suspicious as the pupils behave very strangely. They march like puppets and emerge from accidents without a flinch or hint of pain. Then Sara discovers that Miss Macey has a very strange treatment for her pupils and has a “great plan”.

Secrets

Notes

  • Artist: Tony Higham

Appeared

  • School of Secrets – Mandy:  #619 (25 November 1978) – #627 (20 January 1979)

My Pony Next Door

Mandy

Plot

Jenny West is forced to sell her pony Jester to her new neighbour, Willa Trent, so her dad can pay off his debts. But then Jenny discovers Willa is an unfit owner for Jester.

Pony

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Pony bij de buren” – Debbie #16 (1979).

Appeared:

  • My Pony Next Door – Mandy:  #619 (25 November 1978) – #629 (3 February 1979)