Category Archives: Mandy

Cherry and the Chimps [1971]

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Plot

Disease was sweeping the Zimwabi  Plateau in Central Africa. Flying to try to help the stricken area, Cherry Clifford was stranded when the plane was sabotaged and crashed in the jungle. Cherry was the only survivor. The sabotage was the work of two men who were deliberately spreading the disease among the natives and animals, in order to clear the area. The crooks had discovered that the plateau held rich uranium deposits. Once the plateau was deserted, they would be able to lease the land they wanted, at a very low price. To escape the men Cherry had help from a family of chimps.

Notes

Appeared

  • Cherry and the Chimps – Mandy: circa #214 (20 February 1971) – (?)

Look Out for Great Big Bess!

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Plot

Young Peg Tuttle and her Grandpa came from the prairie regions of America. In 1895, they took a job on a cattle train. The journey ended at Chicago, and it was their first visit to a big city. Twi swindlers sell grandpa a traction engine, thinking he will never be able to go anywhere with it and will have to continue to pay rent on keeping it in the lot. Peg  finds a way around the law though and  they make a plan to drive the machine home, with Peg naming it ‘Great Big Bess’.

Notes

Appeared

  • Look Out for Great Big Bess! – Mandy: #195 (10 October 1970) – (?)

The Beachcombers

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Plot

When Jo Jevons and her friend, Jill Lucas, accompanied Jo’s scientist father to Stark Island for a summer holiday, he left them to cope with the primitive living conditions and went on with his sea-life research. The girls spent there time combing the beach and finding many interesting objects.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Beachcombers – Mandy: (?) – #172 (2 May 1970)

“Father Must Go Free!”

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Plot

After the Battle of Culloden in 1746. the victorious Redcoats searched the Scottish Highlands for rebels. Although Kenneth MacRae had not taken part in the rebellion, he had been arrested and taken to Fort Augustus. His children. Morag and Ian MacRae, a were seeking Campbell of Mamore, the commander of the Government troops in the West. Campbell knew that Kenneth MacRae was not a rebel and Morag and Ian hoped that he could save their father’s life.

Notes

Appeared

  • “Father Must Go Free!” – Mandy: circa #178 (13 June 1970) – (?)

Phantom of the Flame

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Plot

Under the influence of a witch’s curse,  Gina Farley was playing cruel tricks on the de Sackeville family, whenever she saw a flame.

Notes

  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Het spook in de vlammen” – The Phantom in the Flames) – Debbie Stripstory #12/1981.

Appeared

  • Phantom of the Flame – Mandy: #735 (14 February 1981) – #747 (9 May 1981)

Elsie’s Elephant

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Plot

On Elsie Carter’s  birthday, a strange present arrived! Elsie’s Uncle Charlie, who lived in Africa, had decided to send her a monkey—but due to a mix-up on the way, Elsie received the wrong crate. And so Hortense, the ‘baby elephant, arrived at Carter’s Coal and Fruit Emporium, much to the surprise of Elsie and her parents.

Notes

Appeared

  • Elsie’s Elephant – Mandy: #195 (10 October 1970) – (?)

Vicky’s Violin

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Plot

Orphan Vicky Mason left England in the year 1894, and went to join her far-travelled elder brother in the Yukon territory of Northern Canada. The Klondike gold rush was at its height, when Vicky disembarked at the port of Skagway, in Alaska.Vicky discovers her brother is missing  and during her search for him, she is given a violin with very strange powers by an old prospector.

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Appeared

  • Vicky’s Violin – Mandy: ##432 (26 April 1975) – #437 (31 May1975)

Maureen Must Fail

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Plot

Maureen Jones is a music scholar at Monkton School.  The scholarship is to be reviewed annually and Celia Jarvis, a jealous rival, is determined that Maureen must fail next year’s audition. While pretending to be friendly, she aims to get Maureen the reputation of a troublemaker.

Notes

  • Art: Tom Hurst

Appeared

  • Maureen Must Fail – Mandy: #749 (23 May 1981) – #757 (18 July 1981)