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  • Where can I buy these comics?
  • This is just a fansite I like to talk about these comics but I don’t sell comics on this site.  There are a few places that you can find these comics, the big places are ebay and London shop 30th century comic. Check out their website here. There are a few other specialist shops, car boot sales and websites that you may get lucky with too.
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  • Happy to help if I can, but good to note the more detail you can give the better, even if its just when you would have read the story. For example “A talented girl that is mistreated by cruel relatives” could be the plot summary for many stories! The comics uk forum is also full of helpful people:  http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/index.php as well as facebook groups like “Girls Comics – UK”.

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  1. Thanks for that. I wasn’t sure what time the regression story was set in. I don’t have any comics left and am only relying on a poor memory of decades ago so wouldn’t remember every detail.

    The Annie story could be what I remember about the maid being the woman’s daughter where the other girl pretended to be her daughter so that they could plot to rob her.

    Thank you for helping and this site. Very interesting and informative.

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    1. I can now provide scans of “Living in the Past” if you are interested. If you are, I can send them via Lorrsadmin.

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  2. The default setting for wordpress sites mean that users have to check back to see if anyone has replied to comment. I’ve now added a plugin that allows users to subscribe to a thread and get email notifications if someone has replied to a comment.

    You’ll notice the box to tick after putting in your name and email. Something I should have looked into getting before, but better late then never! All a work in progress.

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  3. Hi I am trying to find a story that I think was in either a Bunty or Judy. I think it would have been in an annual between 1970-1980. The story is about 2 sisters who were really close and had planted a tree in their garden but then the older sister moves away and i think she might have lost contact with the family, but then the tree they planted together started to blossom so the family knew she was okay. Are you able to help me find this please?

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    1. I can’t find anything like this in the Bunty or Judy annuals for the 1970’s, but I came across this story called “The Flowering Cherry Trees” in the June Annual 1971, which sounds very similar:

      A family has a son and daughter, and they plant a cherry tree in their garden for each child as they are born. When the daughter falls ill a few years later, her tree starts to wither, but recovers when she does. Later on, the son enlists in the navy at the start of World War II and is posted overseas. One day the daughter notices that his tree is dying. The same day, the family get a telegram to say that the son is missing in action, and his tree appears to die shortly afterwards. After this, the daughter falls ill and her tree starts to wither. Then one day she notices that the son’s tree has produced fresh shoots and a few blossoms, and she tells her mother that she is sure the son is alive. Later that day, they get the telegram notifying them that he has been found.

      Could this be the story you’re looking for? Happy to provide a scan of part of the story if this will help identify it.

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  4. Curious if someone can identify this story Judy, March 1976: a young girl, feeble from bronchitis, lives on her parents farm. When a young fowl is born and proves to be weak, she convinces her father to let her keep it. In order to save it, she has a wondering donkey mare adopt it. The donkey’s owners, travelling gypsies, demand payment and she has to overcome her illness’ effects to save the horse and donkey both by working hard on the farm, finally “earning her keep” in her father’s eye. The horse grows to become quite strong and a horse racing Major shows interest in it.

    Sorry, no clue as to the artist, even though it looks familiar to me.

    Anyone?

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    1. I’ve had a look and I only have Judy issues from January 1976 and April 1976 so missing those issues in between that must have that story. I probably won’t be going to the National Library until sometime in New Year but i can check for it when I go there next.

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    2. The serial that you are seeking, Ramon, is ‘Dancer Of Seven Vales’. It runs in JUDY 843 (6 March 1976) – 854 (22 May 1976).

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    3. Presumably, Ramon, when you wrote ‘fowl’ you meant ‘foal’. See below for my answer to your question.

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  5. Another one, a short this time. Debbie circa 1975. Susan (called Sandie in one panel) has been gifted a camera for her birthday. She goes to a local wealthy woman’s garden, to photograph her statues. The woman chases her off, believing Susan’s mother to be guilty of stealing a diamond necklace. Susan developes the film and finds out the real culprit is a magpie.

    Anyone?

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  6. Looking for a Judy story, translated into Dutch as “Duiken voor goud” (“Diving for Gold”), starting November 1974 and running at least to February the next year.

    A retired major is looking for athletic talent and finds one is Kathy, a young show diver working in her father’s circus.

    Any bells?

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  9. I would like to wish all my friends and colleagues on this platform ‘a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’.

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  11. Have another research question. It is a story from Judy #619 (20 November 1971) to 630 (5 February 1972) and in the Dutch reprint I am indexing is called “Storm”.

    It takes place in Dartmoor and surrounding area, where schoolgirl Nell Baker saves a wild horse she dubs Storm.

    Any ideas?

    Regards,
    Ramon

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    1. The complete title, Ramon, is ‘STORM, SON of the MOORS’. Please note that the above is exactly as it appears in JUDY, the words ‘of the’ are in lower case letters.

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  13. Hi, I was looking for the Angel title of Lucky Charm and I wondered if there was a place to try and find it or maybe read online?
    I’m doing some research for my own book and it would be really useful! (In fact any of her stories would be.)

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      1. Hi Mandy,
        I have a copy of ‘Angel’ (Lucky Charm No7) which I’m happy to scan and print off a copy for you. I will send it directly to you if you let me have your address. If you are unwilling to write down your address on this platform, I will post it to lorrsadmin as I do know hers, and she can act as a go-between. I know that she will because she has done so previously on at least two occasions.
        Best regards,
        Derek Marsden (Darsym Press)

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        1. Hi, Derek! I would be interested in a scan of ‘Angel’, too, please! I’ve got a scan of ‘The Children’s Champion’ and am interested in comparing them. I read the latter in 1974, but not ‘Angel’. What intrigues me is how closely a lot of the girls’ comics of the 1970s were still riffing on themes from Victorian girls’ fiction and indeed Victorian sensation fiction.

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  14. Have another hat-in-hand request for a story title which I am indexing the Dutch reprint of. Copyrighted DC Thomson, reprinted in 1990, it translates as “The Trapped Nightingale”. A teen girl with a great voice falls under the spell of a doctor who hypnotises her to become mute once her performance has ended. He takes her on the road to perform and she repeatedly tries to escape from his clutches.

    Any idea?

    Regards,
    Ramon

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    1. The BUNTY story that you refer to as “The Trapped Nightingale”, Ramon, is actually titled “Nellie Nightingale”. It runs between 1698 (21. 7. 1990) and 1708 (6. 10.1990). As far as I can tell, and I have checked my complete list of the stories in BUNTY, it isn’t a repeat.

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          1. I don’t think the story you are looking for is Nellie Nightingale
            http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2014/05/nellie-nightingale/

            While that story does have a talented singer she is blackmailed to be used as a decoy for a scheming woman. No hypnotism involved.

            Also if it was reprinted in Dutch in 1990 it would be unlikely to be it as Nelly Nightingale ran in Bunty late 1990s so I’m not sure the dates line up.

            I’m trying to think of another contender for the story.

    3. Re: my comment about Victorian sensation fiction, this sounds to me v much as if influenced by ‘Trilby’, in which the heroine can only sing when hypnotised.

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    4. This sounds like “Vanessa’s Voice” which ran in Judy in 1982 and was reprinted in Judy in late 1989. In this story Vanessa loses her voice when her parents are killed. A doctor discovers she can sing when she is hypnotized. He takes her on the road hypnotizing her to perform. She becomes mute after her performance. She tries to escape several times but is unable to. It ends with a fire in witch the doctor dies fighting another trying to help her and she regains her voice.

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  15. On a completely different matter, I have started to write my third book “BUNTY AND HER SISTERS : Their Great Stories”. I believe that I have already mentioned that the stories will be in alphabetical order, and unlike my previous book “THIS WAS THE WIZARD”, I am not restricting the synopses to three lines, so in some cases there may be only three to a page. I estimate that in total there will be roughly 2500 synopses. Written so far are :-
    0001 A Best Friend For Belinda : MANDY 1198 (30 Dec. 1989) – 1209 (17 Mar. 1990)
    0002 The Abominable Snowmen : DIANA 406 (28 Nov. 1970) – 416 (6 Feb. 1971)
    0003 A Boy Friend For Beverley : MANDY 1080 (26 Sep. 1987) – 1089 (28 Nov. 1987)
    0004 Abracadabra! : BUNTY 1763 (26 Oct. 1991) – 1772 (28 Dec. 1991)
    0005 A Cure For Connie : JUDY 56 (4 Feb. 1961) – 70 (13 May 1961)
    0006 A Cure For Scaredy-Cat Pat : BUNTY 694 (1 May 1971) – 703 (3 Jul. 1971)
    0007 A Foster Must Do It! : JUDY 256 (5 Dec. 1964) – 262 (16 Jan. 1965)
    0008 A Girl Called Bright Star : MANDY 313 (13 Jan. 1973) – 330 (12 May 1973)
    0009 A Girl Called Halliplunk : JUDY (11 Nov. 1967) – (6 Jan. 1968)
    0010 A Girl Called Squirrel : MANDY 419 (25 Jan. 1975) – 430 (12 Apr. 1975)

    The cost of the book will be £45/£50. If I may anticipate the obvious question “How Do We Pay?”, the first of which will no doubt emanate from one of our members in New Zealand, let me explain that I have opened a third bank account with NATWEST. It is called a SELECT a/c, and is purely for receiving money. Naturally it has an account number and a sort code, which I will give you when my book is published. If anybody other than me tries to extract money from that a/c, they will be in court within 24 hours and in jail shortly afterwards.

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      1. Hi Ramon,
        Yes, of course. I’ve sold my previous books to buyers wherever they may have lived, including countries such as Germany, Spain, and France, whose main language is not even English. Obviously the basic point of writing a book is to sell it, and as I have already stated, I will let members know the precise p&p costs nearer the publication date. All I will need to do at that point will be to take one copy of the book along with its packaging to my nearest Post Office so that they can weigh it, and then tell me how much it will cost me to send it to wherever the buyers live. There are variations of course, but they are relatively minor, even if the parcel is being posted to an address in North Africa by ‘Special Delivery’. I hope that you are satisfied with the above information.
        Best regards,
        Derek Marsden (Darsym Press)

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  18. With reference to the comment that I posted at 12.08 pm on 1st February 2022, I must inform members that entry 0001 will now be ‘A Bed Called Fred’ BUNTY 615 (25 October 1969) – 640 (18 April 1970). The original entry 0001 ‘A Best Friend For Belinda’ now becomes 0002, all the others obviously moving along one slot.

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  19. Hi,

    Here ‘s a request for Princess Tina
    The Dutch girlsmagazine Tina was in it’s first years a duplicate of Tina and Princess Tina. The printing or reproduction quality of the Dutch magazine was poor, however, so I always wanted to see what the quality of Princess Tina was like, especially for the top comic strips:

    Jane Bond
    The Spacegirls
    Moira, the slave girl
    Wagons, go west
    Happy Days
    Barbie

    Hopefully someone can post the pages as published in the magazines. I’ve seen black and white originals on the internet and they show brilliant artwork. It is qa pity these stories were never reproduced in a book publication.

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    2. The print quality of Princess Tina was quite variable, and deteriorated over time. Some artists fared better than others – the hard clean lines of Barbie or Moira, for example, came across better than the dramatic heavy blacks of Westward the Wagons. At its best, however, it was excellent, and could be very effective also with high-grade colour art such as the painted work of Millar Watt and Walter Lambert. It also helped that the comic was unusually large in format. This varied over time but 30x24cm was typical (and too large for my scanner, as you can see).

      Here are a couple of scans from November 1967 issues, shortly after the Princess/Tina merger – black and white from Barbie and colour from Alona. Happy to provide scans for other strips if you wish. Please let me know if so.

      [img]https://i.imgur.com/2hQVLiY.jpg[/img]

      [img]https://i.imgur.com/RurCEXp.jpg[/img]

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        1. Sorry, the links didn’t work first time. I’ve sent them again, but this second post has been caught up in the website’s spam filter. It will be visible (hopefully with working links) once Lorrsadmin has cleared it.

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          3. Hi Goof, the new links are great. The Dutch Tina is 55 this year and we plan to do a feature on this joyful event. We would be happy to receive more original pages by then. I will let you know. I am looking especially for the comic strips I nentioned earlier.

            Thanks and cheers, Meerten

          4. Thanks, Meerten. I have quite a few Princess Tinas, and would be happy to produce some more scans if this would help. You will have noticed though that these will be less than ideal in quality as my scanner won’t fully accommodate the Princess Tinas of that period, and the pages tend to be shaved at the sides.

            No doubt you will be considering the question of copyright, depending on the size and nature of the feature. As far as I know, the copyright to Princess Tina material is owned by UK publishers Rebellion.

  21. Hi Goof, I don’t think we will be publishing complete stories, but just examples of the original artwork. What you send me was in black & white. But Tina was published in colour.

    If necessary we will mention Rebellion as copyright holder. Through a publisher we know very well, they are at present the Trigan Empire publisher in Holland, we can always arrange a deal.

    Thanks very much and cheers, Meerten

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  22. Looking for another story that was translated into Dutch as “Linda steelt de show” (“Linda Steals the Show”).

    A young girl, Linda, is orphaned after her parents die in a car crash, also blinding her. To relieve her ageing grandmother, they go for a vacation in a seaside holiday park. There, she and her dog Biba perform on stage and are an instant success.

    Soon a couple wish to take advantage of the pair and they swindle her away from her gran.

    Lastdodo has the artist as Andrew Wilson.

    Any ideas?

    Regards,
    Ramon

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    3. I think Goof is right and “Blind Belinda” is the story you are looking for. A car crash blinds Belinda and kills her parents. Belinda and Kim (her dog) live with her grandmother. She won a talent contest while on holiday. A couple promised that she would make her enough money to go to America to an eye specialist to cure her blindness, so her grandmother lets her and her dog go. They treat her bad and steal all the money she earns. In the last episode Belinda represents Britain in the International Song Contest. While here her eyesight comes back, the Fraud Squad catch the couple and she sees her grandmother again.

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  23. Another one: translates as “Me and My Ducky”. A young girl is afraid to swim, until she learns that when she takes an old rubber duck into the pool, she can suddenly swim.

    Lastdodo has Diane Gabbot as artist.

    Regards,
    Ramon

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    1. That is “Donna Ducks Out” from Tammy 1980. Thanks for the information about the Dutch translation. By the way, how does the title actually appear in Dutch and in what Dutch publication did it appear and when?

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    1. Thank you. We’re doing a list of translations at the Jinty site too, and currently I’m the one keeping it up to date.

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  25. The Jinty website seems to have comments switched off, so thought I would post this here:

    “Leap through Time” from Misty was translated as “Een sprong in de tijd” and published in Dutch Tina #13/1985-19/1985.

    Regards,
    Ramon

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  26. This is posted here as the entry for the annual doesn’t have a comments box:

    A couple more names for the 1986 Diana Annual:

    Amber Goes to War [Art: Pat Tourret]
    Eye of the Tiger [Art: Rossend Franch?]
    The Puddlethorpe Curse [Art: Brian Delaney]
    Jenny v the Master [Art: Luigi Stefou] (don’t know him from Adam, but we have a signature!)

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  27. Is anybody able to help me find a story, which I think was in a Bunty annual in the 1970s or 1980s, please? I don’t remember many details, other than that it was about a house covered in ivy. I think the ivy had faces in it, and possibly that families who lived in the house disappeared. I remember a picture at the end of it of a girl looking out of a window as the ivy grew to cover the whole house… Any pointers would be very welcome, thanks!

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    1. This may be “Green Grows the Ivy..” from the 1983 Diana Annual. A girl and her family move into a house which is covered in ivy. The girl finds that the ivy burns her when she touches it, and her parents think that she is allergic to it. They try to have the ivy removed, but it proves to be very tough, and their neighbours won’t help them. Eventually they hire somebody who removes it with a flamethrower. However the ivy starts to grow back, and the girl dreams that it is “alive” with screaming faces in it. One morning the ivy has covered her bedroom window completely, and the girl dies. Her parents are unconcerned because they are now in the power of the ivy. The story ends as a new family move in and their young boy is also “allergic” to the ivy. The last panel shows his grave being dug, alongside the grave of the girl, which is now being covered by ivy.

      Does this sound like the one? Happy to post a scan of part of the story if that would help.

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      1. Goodness, it was even more horrific than I recall! I’d love it if you could scan a part please, if possible the face at the window as I that’s what I think I remember… I’ve spoken with a friend I met in adulthood about the story, we both remember it, and I’d like to buy her a copy of it for her 50th birthday this year. So now off to find the Diana annual. Thanks so much for your response. x

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        1. There are a couple of possible panels for the girl at the window picture, so I’ll post two or three pages of the story. It may take a little while for this to appear here, as multiple links in a post sometimes set off the website’s spam filter, and the post has to be OK’d before it can be seen. Should be visible over the next couple of days, hopefully.

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      2. Hi – I’m also looking for an ivy story but the panels are more black and white / darker tones. I honestly can’t remember which annual it comes from but it’s the what I would call more traditional illustration style from the 70s / 80s. All I remember is the ivy is already growing on the house and the girl becomes ill, and I believe she also dies at the end / is I think choked by the ivy?

        Does anyone remember that one? It’s likely to be a Bunty, Diana, Judy, or similar from late 70s early 80s. It could be earlier though.

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          2. She may also have had dreams about it i.e. have dreamt that it was choking her and then it was, or something like that. I know I was afraid to sleep afterwards anyway!

  28. Diana annuals really had some seriously creepy Man in Black stories, and David Matysiak on art always does a good job.

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  29. Can anyone help please? I want to get my sister a copy of the Bunty from between 1958 and 1961 but it has to have the cut out dolls on the back page. Can anyone please give me a date or issue number of one that does have them in that time period please? I tried asking 30th Century comics but they say not all of them had the cut outs and that anyway they couldn’t afford the time to look. I hope someone can help so I know what to look out for.

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    2. Your best bet is probably to find a copy of the comic from this period on ebay, then contact the seller to check that it includes the cut-out dolls. You would need to do this even if you knew that that issue included the cut-out feature, as many were (unsurprisingly) cut out by the original owners.

      You may not find this easy, as early Buntys are quite rare, and I don’t think the cut-out feature started until around 1960. If so, would an annual be a possible alternative? The 1962 Annual falls within your period, despite its date, as it was published in time for Christmas 1961. As you can see from the listing on this website, it includes “Bunty’s Cut-Out Wardrobe”. There are a couple of copies on ebay (although they’re not cheap), but you would still need to check that the page hadn’t been removed.

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      1. Thanks for your reply. As you say, there are very few on eBay so no one to ask (at the moment). Some comic dealers have stock but they won’t look for me. This is why I thought if I can identify some issues that have the cut outs, then I can specifically look for those by number or date. I thought that people on this site might have some in their collection and so be able to tell me the dates. The annual idea is a good one if I can’t get a comic. Thanks for answering me.

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        1. I have some odd Buntys from 1973 to 1981, and they have the cutout covers. It must have lasted to #1200, 10 January 1981 at least (the last Bunty issue in my collection to have them). I don’t know when they started, but the earliest I have in my collection is #832 (December 22, 1973). If you pick up some issues from the mid-70s you should be fine. Make sure those cutout covers are intact, though!

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    3. I had a look at my comic DVD collection. The earliest they have is #166, 18 March 1961. The cutouts are only half a page at this point, as they are sharing with the School Badge Corner.

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      1. Thank you so much for doing that. It gives me a starting point. As far as you can tell, do they then have the cut outs every week in 1961?

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  30. Thank you so much for doing that. It gives me a starting point. As far as you can tell, do they then have the cut outs every week in 1961?

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    1. I don’t have the whole of 1961 on the disc, just a few issues. I gave the date of the earliest they had. But from the looks of the issues they have, it does look weekly.

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