Category Archives: Mandy

The Kazoo Kids

Mandy,

Plot

When Sally Turner’s father died, her mother went back to her old profession of teaching. Mrs Turner was appointed teacher at the small school in the mining village of Rapton, in the north of England. Soon after tragedy strikes the village when there is a cave-in at one of the mines. Showing the girls in her class films of her old marching band, Sally is able to perk them up and get them interested in starting their own band. Other people in the village are not happy though as they don’t find the band appropriate for a village in mourning.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Kazoo Kids – Mandy: #195 (10 October 1970) – (?)

I Spy – with my Little Eye!

Mandy,

Plot

Betsy Bell’s father. who was on the stage, saved enough money to send her to exclusive Park Hall School. But the snobs at Park Hall did not make Betsy welcome. Lady Myrtle Poop and Hefty Fitzherbert were always up to  tricks, but Betsy had some tricks of her own that she had learned from her hypnotist father.

Notes

Appeared

  • I Spy – with my Little Eye! – Mandy: #210 (23 January 1971) – #224 (1 May 1971)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #590 (6 May 1978) – #604 (12 August 1978)
  • Partially Reprinted – Mandy: #1167 (27 May 1989) – #1173 (8 July 1989)

It’s all for Yolanda!

Mandy

Plot

Young Yolanda Yates is highly talented—or so her doting Mum is convinced. Holly, her older sister, is the dull, plain one of the family so she helps all she can with ordinary things like housework and looking after Yolanda. Mum’s efforts to make a famous singer of Yolanda fail dismally but, totally undaunted, Mrs Yates next plans a stage career for her darling daughter.

Notes

Appeared

  • It’s all for Yolanda! – Mandy:  #741 (28 March 1981) – #748 (16 May 1981)

Lucy Lariat

Mandy, ,

Plot

She called herself Lucy Lariat because she didn’t know her real  name, and because she was so good with a rope. Since her parents had been killed by Indians, she had been brought up by Ruben Rothwell, who trained Lucy and other children to steal for him. Lucy had stolen a horse from the Tracy ranch, but when she returned to steal a beautiful white horse, she saw a cougar about to attack it. She lassoed the cougar, and it clawed her leg. Thinking Lucy had saved their stock, Jim Tracy and his daughter, Diana, put her up for the night and made a-fuss of her.

Notes

  • Art: Len Potts

Appeared

  • Lucy Lariat – Mandy: circa #258 – #263 (29 January 1972)

Patience and the Portrait

Mandy

Plot

Distrusted by the villagers of Thornheath because of the wrongs that her grandfather had done them, Patience West was determined not to leave gloomy old Heath House, which she had inherited. Lonely and unhappy, the only thing that made life bearable was the knowledge that, in some mysterious fashion, her kind actions were making up for her grand-father’s evil deeds. Patience saw the proof of this in the mysterious changes which took place in the portrait of the old man, which hung in her room

Notes

Appeared

  • Patience and the Portrait – Mandy: #656 (11 August 1979) – #668 (3 November 1979)

Polly of Paradise Row

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Polly, Vicky and Albert Parkin were trying to support themselves after the death of their parents, to avoid being sent to the Town Orphanage. They were helped by their poor but good-hearted neighbours in Paradise Row.

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Polly uit de Paradijsstraat”) – Debbie #40 (1984).

Appeared

  • Polly of Paradise Row – Mandy: #669 (10 November 1979) – #679 (19 January 1980)