Category Archives: Mandy

Little Twit

Mandy

Plot

Only Kathy Carter, a young nanny for the  wealthy Ritchie family, knew that little Nora Ritchie had been replaced by an identical space alien child from the planet Twitanie—a little Twit, in fact, with strange powers.

Notes

Appeared

  • Little Twit – Mandy:  #752 (13 June 1981) – #764 (5 September 1981)

The Courage of Pat Piper

Mandy, ,

Plot

When the German Army over ran Holland in 1940, the Germans began an intensive search for fourteen- year-old Pat Piper. Inside her belt, Pat was carrying a secret formula which the Germans desperately wanted. Pat’s mission was to take the formula to London, and on her travels she took some refugee children into her care. In Antwerp, the children were given a horse, Dapple, and a caravan with instructions to go to Paris where they would he helped on their journey to England. On the road to Paris, Pat overheard plans to capture and kill Dapple and she decided that they would have to leave him behind in the hope that he would find a good home.

Notes

  • Art: Tony Thewenetti.

Appeared

  • The Courage of Pat Piper – Mandy: #108 (8 February 1969) – (?)

Roma the Roamer

Mandy,

Plot

An old gipsy woman put a curse on Julia Cardoon, re-naming  her “Roma the Roamer” and condemning her to wander throughout her life, with no memory of the past. Roma was captured by a gang of thieves. She tried to escape, but was seized by their leader, the Major.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Berridge
  • Translated into Dutch (as “Gina de zwerfster” – Gina the Wanderer) – monthly Debbie Stripstory #8/1981.

Appeared

  • Roma the Roamer – Mandy:  #517 (11 December 1977) – #528 (26 February 1977)

Bringing Up Gipsy

Mandy

Plot

Julie Latimer was the daughter of Giles Latimer, a race-horse trainer. One day she found a foal abandoned by the gipsies and brought it home. From the start Gipsy made her mark z. on the strict routine of the racing stables. Now Gipsy was big enough for Julie to ride regularly. All she needed was as a set of shoes.

Notes

Appeared

  • Bringing Up Gipsy – Mandy: circa #127 (21 June 1969) – (?)

The Mystery of the Blacksmith’s Daughter

Mandy,

Plot

Ruth Fennell was the daughter of John Fennell, a travelling black-smith. She was an unusual girl,with the gift of second sight and a rare way with all animals. For some time, Ruth had been aware that a tribe of gipsies was secretly helping her and this puzzled her.

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Rosa” – Debbie #19 (1980).

Appeared

  • The Mystery of the Blacksmith’s Daughter – Mandy: (?) – #132 (26 July 1969)

Four on the Freedom Trail

Mandy, ,

Plot

IN the year 1940, Joan Clark was staying with her French relations, the Chapelles, in the Vosges district. Joan’s parents were on a scientific survey in the jungles of South America. War with Germany been declared the previous autumn, after Joan had begun her stay but in France there had been little fighting. While the Chapelles worried about the was, Joan and her cousin Monique were more preoccupied with the birth of a foal. But then the war comes closer to home whice leads Joan, Monique along with the mare Astra and foal, Orion on a long journey.

Notes

  • Art: Len Potts

Appeared

  • Four on the Freedom Trail – Mandy: #290 (5 August 1972) – #299 (7 October 1972)

And They Call her Sweet Little Sue!

Mandy, ,

Plot

Fourteen year old, Sue Mason was the only girl on the Bar M ranch in Wyoming. Her widowed father, Henry Mason, and her two strapping brothers, Sam and Luke, refused to admit she was growing up. They tried to protect her at all times, but in fact she was well able to look after herself AND them.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Berridge

Appeared

  • And They Call her Sweet Little Sue! – Mandy: circa #214 (20 February 1971) – (?)

The Voyage of Runaway Rose

Mandy, ,

Plot

Wrongly accused of stealing a valuable jewel, Rose Hardy fled from her employer’s house in Sydney, Australia, when her story of a mysterious intruder was not believed. By accident, Rose found herself on board the Evening Star, a wool clipper bound for England. When discovered; Rose offered to work her passage—but a sinister-looking man, who called himself Dr Mallory, seemed to resent Rose’s presence on board, and Rose began to suspect that he was not a real doctor at all!

Notes

Appeared

  • The Voyage of Runaway Rose – Mandy: #314 (20 January 1973) – #322 (17 March 1973)