Fiona Phillips’ grandfather is seriously injured when a fire breaks out in his studio. The fire also destroys some precious paintings of rare flowers. Fiona sets out to help replace the artwork by travelling the country to look for 10 of the rarest plants to draw from real life.
Plot:
Beth Maynard is fostered out to her Great Uncle Anthony. The grand-daughter Tara has died and Beth is given her bedroom. Then strange things start happening that suggest someone – or something – wants Beth out.
Taking Tara’s Place – M&J: #161 (11 June 1994) – #168 (30 July 1994)
Each pupil in Emma Forest’s class has to contribute a prize for raffles at the school fete. Emma settles on raffling herself to work for six people for the next six Saturdays.
Emma – M&J #152 (9 April 1994) – #158 (21 May 1994)
Plot:
Sal Edwards has been used to the posh life and school until her parents split up. Sal goes with her mother, and is dismayed to find they are moving into a more humble flat and running a second-hand clothes stall for a living. Terrified of being bullied and being called “Second-Hand Sal” at school, Sal goes to great lengths to keep her schoolmates from finding out.
Second-Hand Sal – M&J #140 (15 January 1994) – #149 (19 March 1994)
In 1934, when Cathy Collins’ father died, she and her mother moved from their comfortable home to 13 Grimm Street, in a poor part of town. Cathy’s one remaining joy was her piano, but she had to find money to keep up the payments on it. Cathy’s move also meant a change of school.
Grimm Street – Judy: #840 (14 February 1976) – #854 (22 May 1976)
Policewomen, Joy Fennell and Sheila Morris, were given the task of preventing juvenile delinquency in the tough Prospect Road area during school holidays, using the ‘Red Maria’, a specially-adapted police van, equipped with all kinds of sports apparatus.
The Red Maria– Judy: #807 (28 June 1975) – #820 (27 September 1975)
As babies, twins Marris and Merri had been washed onto the shore at the Welsh village of Porwen and found by Daniel Hughes, a fisherman. Around the babies’ necks had been fine, unbreakable chains. As the girls grew, so, mysteriously, did the chains. Apart from this they seemed normal girls. Nobody knew that they could swim underwater for miles or that they could communicate with the sea creatures. There was a problem in the village as for weeks the fishermen had returned to harbour each day, without a catch.
The twins return several times, like when sea creatures in the waters by Porwen, mutated into monsters and attacked the villagers. Merri and Morris, the strange sea-children with remarkable powers, returned to help their adopted village. When Morris was trapped by a giant oyster, Merri called to the far-off Wise Ones of the Deep for help as she struggled to free herself from mutated seaweed.
Another time an unknown element had poisoned all the shellfish off the coast of Porwen, and several unexplained disappearances had occurred. Merri and Morris, had discovered aliens living in a transparent dome on the sea-bed. The Twins had made a pact with Zakon, the leader of the aliens, but it seemed as if he had broken it.
(The Fish Twins – 1971, Art: John Armstrong)
(The Fish Twins – 1979, Art: Carlos Laffond)
(The Fish Twins – 1981, Art: Bert Hill)
Other Appearances
Someone is playing nasty tricks on Steve. Steve’s girlfriend Nicola turns detective to find the culprit.
Plot:
After her parents’ deaths, Anna Jackson goes to live with her half-brother and his wife. But Anna soon finds they don’t care about her and she gets even more lonely because she does not know anyone in her new town. Then Anna comes across a sett of orphaned badgers and finds friendship in caring for them.
Rose Hammond was still a schoolgirl but, because of her keenness for walking and her knowledge of the countryside around her home, the International Pathfinder Club had appointed her as one of their official walkers. Her job was to make a survey of all the rights of way and bridle paths within a certain radius of Lamsbridge, the village where she lived.
(Rambling Rose – 1963)
(Rambling Rose – 1987, Art: Bert Hill)