Category Archives: Mandy

The Truth about Banjo Belle

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Plot

Fifteen year old, Jill Baker started a folk group along with her friends, Bill Moss and Don Ellis. They were not doing too well and Jill’s grandmother—a former music-hall star suggested that Jill should borrow the costumes, wigs and the banjo that she had used. When the group appeared at the Fiesta Club there was a near riot. Jill’s handling of the audience aroused the admiration of Al Hunter, a theatrical agent who had known Jill’s Gran when she topped the bill as Banjo Belle. He suggested that she could pretend to be the actual Banjo Belle  for more success. Jill only agrees to this, so she can afford to buy house for her grandmother.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Truth about Banjo Belle – Mandy: #300 (14 October 1972) – #313 (13 January 1973)

The Star with the Statue

Mandy

Plot

Fourteen year old, Paula Pastaza had lived all her life in the village of San Miguel, high in the Andes. Then an old priest told her that she would bring fame to her village. Armed only with an old tennis racquet she believed was a weapon, and with a small statue of her people’s god—Jibaro —Paula set off for the nearest town. There she learned the true use of a racquet and showed amazing accuracy with it. She was advised that, with the help of a tennis coach in the state capital of San Fernando, she might become a tennis star.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Star with the Statue – Mandy: #300 (14 October 1972) – #312 (6 January 1973)

Sara and the Survivors

Mandy

Plot

In the year 2072, there are only six hundred people left in the world. One of these people is a young girl, Sara Stone, who has to survive in this terrifying world. During the 1980s soil pollution had brought deadly giant ferns which killed humans and made everything giant sized. The survivors lived in Portland which had been unaffected but the survivors made trips to the dangerous mainland to harvest the giant corn that grew there.

Notes

Appeared

  • Sara and the Survivors – Mandy: #259 (1 January 1972) – #266 (19 February 1972)

Nine Wishes for Nina

Mandy,

Plot

Nina Simpson was given nine wishes  by her antique wish-bone pendant comes true.Each of her wishes have come disastrously true and it says when she makes her ninth wish she will die.

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Negen wensen voor Wieske” and published in Groot Tina Winterboek #4/1982 (1982).

Appeared

  • Nine Wishes for Nina – Mandy: #728 (27 December 1980) – #734 (7 February 1981)

Netta’s Newshound

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Plot

Netta Norris worked as a reporter for the Stickleford Gazette, a small country newspaper run by her Uncle George. She was helped in her work by Sam, the office dog. Only Netta knew that Sam was actually Sam Bates,  a former ace newsman, who had been turned into a dog after an unfortunate incident with an alien spaceship.

 

Notes

Appeared

  • Netta’s Newshound – Mandy: #301 (21 October 1972) – #316 (3 February  1973)

“Call Me Cupid!”

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Plot

Trixie Dean plays cupid, finding her sister Sally suitable boyfriends… suitable for Trixie that is, as she sets her up with boys that benefit her in some way!


(“Call Me Cupid!” – 1973)


(Call Me Cupid! – 1975, art: Guy Peeters)

Notes

  • Art: Guy Peeters (1975)
  • The sequel had a different artist and dropped the quotation marks from the title.

Appeared

  • “Call Me Cupid!” – Mandy: #360 (8 December 1973) – (circa #373)
  • Call Me Cupid! – Mandy: #440 (21 June 1975) – #448 (16 August 1975)

The Trials of Tabby

Mandy,

Plot

When her father died, Tabby Harper was sent by her Uncle Giles to Greentrees boarding school, where her cousin Merril was also a pupil. At the school. Tabby made an enemy of Charlton, the school groom—who hated her and her mountain pony, Curlew. When Curlew disappeared, Tabby found that he had been sold to a circus. Tabby rescued Curlew, and set out for the only place where he would be safe—the moors round her old home in Larkspring.

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Lara” – Penny Ponystripboek #1 (1980).

Appeared

  • The Trials of Tabby – Mandy: #207 (2 January 1971) – #222 (17 April 1971)

My Sister Jinx

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Plot

Young Vicky Conway nicknamed her pretty  elder sister “Jinx” because she was so superstitious. Vicky persuaded Jiux to enter a beauty contest organised by Talbot’s, the store where they both worked. Their parents desperately needed a holiday and the first prize was two weeks on the Costa Brava for the winner’s family.

Notes

Appeared

  • My Sister Jinx – Mandy: #289 (29 July 1972) – #304 (11 November 1972)