Category Archives: Mandy

Lily’s Pink Drink

Plot:

Lily Millar wants to get rid of her freckles, so she enlists the help of Professor Gudge. He makes different potions, but they don’t have the desired effect. They do have other temporary side effects, though, such as giving her super-strength.

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Lily

Notes:

  • The story was reprinted with different artist

Appeared:

  • Lily’s Pink Drink  –  Mandy:  #181 (4 July 1970) – (?)
  • Reprint with new art: Mandy: #557 (17 September 1977) – #569 (10 December 1977)
  • Reprinted: Mandy: #984 (23 November 1985) – (?)

 

The Girl Who Can’t Cry!

Plot

On the way to her new boarding school, Linda Laker sees a spaceship and overhears an invasion plan. The aliens place a girl, who is made to look and sound human, in the school. The alien has one defect – it cannot cry. So Linda sets out to find the imposter by making anyone she suspects cry. But this is making her unpopular and getting her into trouble with the headmistress.

girl who can't cry

Notes

Appeared

  • The Girl Who Can’t Cry!  –  Mandy:   #988 (21 December 1985)  – #999 (8 March 1986)

 

The Secret Song of Kate Darby

Plot

In 1911, just before Kate Darby’s grandmother dies, she tells her she has a long lost brother. Kate sets out to find him,  earning her living along the way, by singing and playing her treasured accordion in theatre queues.

kate darby

Notes

  • Art: Len Potts

Appeared

  • The Secret Song of Kate Darby–  Mandy:  #347 (15 September 1973) –  #360 (08 December 1973)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #701 (21 June 1980) – #714 (20 September 1980)
  • Reprinted – Mandy #1080 (26 September 1987) – #1092 (19 December 1987) [double episode in issue #1092]

 

Smash-Hit Cindy

Plot

Cindy Burnett wants to be a tennis champion but she lives with her grandmother who cannot afford to pay for tennis fees and equipment. When Cindy saves a baby’s life, the grateful parents pay her membership for the exclusive Sterling Club. Of course there are some people who don’t want her in the club.

smash hit cindy

Notes

Appeared

  • Smash-Hit Cindy  –  Mandy:  #347 (8 September 1973) – #357 (17 November 1973)

 

Jonny Comet the Pop Star from Planet X

Plot

Jonny Comet comes to earth in search of his sister. Slim Fiddler realises Jonny could have a great future as a pop-star and appoints himself as Jonny’s manager. Slim’s niece, Mona, helps to keep Jonny’s identity secret.

jonny comet

Notes

  • Art: Claude Berridge

Appeared

  • Jonny Comet the Pop Star from Planet X  –  Mandy: #347 (15 September 1973) – #359 (01 December 1973)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #666 (20 October 1979) – #678 (12 January 1980)

 

The Mystery of the Dancing Nurse / Can’t Help Dancing

Plot

Margaret Simpson is a young nurse at Oaklands, an old mansion converted into a country hospital.  Margaret kept hearing strange music, played by a mysterious piper. Whenever she heard it, she – and anyone who touched her – found they couldn’t help dancing!

cant help dancing

Notes

Appeared

  • The Mystery of the Dancing Nurse – Mandy: #01 (21 January 1967) – #11 (1 April 1967)
  • Reprinted as Can’t Help Dancing –  Mandy: #351 (06 October 1973) – #361 (15 December 1973)

 

 

The Ring of the Red Witch

Plot

Cara Kemp is staying at her Aunt and Uncle’s while her parent’s are abroad.  She finds a mysterious ring in the garden and when she tries it on she is unable to get it off again. Then Cara begins to have strange bouts of moodiness and bad temper.

ring of red witch

Notes

Appeared

  • The Ring of the Red Witch  – Mandy:  #347 (15 September 1973) – #358 (24 Nov 1973)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #663 (29 September 1979)  – #674 (15 December 1979)

 

 

Double Trouble [1973] / Two Times Trouble

Plot

Mr Carter was stranded on a desert island for eleven years, when he returns his wife has died in a train crash and his baby daughter given to Sunnydale Orphanage. He finds that two girls with red hair survived the crash and were raised in the orphanage. He has taken both girls Rose and Jenny, now 13, on holiday to try and figure out which one is his daughter.

double trouble

Notes

Appeared

  • Double Trouble –  Mandy:  #347 (15 September 1973) – #359 (01 December 1973)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #662 (22 September 1979) – #674 (15 December 1979)
  • Reprinted as Two Times Trouble – #1190(4 November 1989) – #1202 (27 January 1990)

 

 

Swinging Sue

Plot

Sue Carter works in the publicity and advertising department of a large London store, Clarrod and Sembridge. She earns the nickname Swinging Sue as she is always so full of life.

swinging sue

Notes

  • Artist: Hugh Thornton-Jones

Appeared

  • Swinging Sue –  Mandy:  #347 (15 September 1973) – #357 (08 September 1973)

Other Appearances:

  • Swinging Sue – Mandy Annual 1975