Tag Archives: Career

Sandra Deane Apprentice Hairdresser

Bunty, ,

Plot

Sandra Deane starts as an apprentice hairdresser she grows in confidence and soon becomes an assistant, then a hair stylist in her own right and opens up her own hair salon.

Notes

  • The title of the the story changed with Sandra Deane’s next part of her career.
  • She later returned in a picture story format.
  • Art: George Martin (Bunty Annuals)

Appeared

  • Sandra Deane Apprentice Hairdresser – Bunty: #122 (14 May 1960) – #127 (18 June 1960)
  • Sandra Deane Assistant Hairdresser – Bunty: #128 (25 June 1960) – #131 (16 July 1960)
  • Sandra Deane Hair Stylist  – Bunty: #132 (23 July 1960) – #135 (13 August 1960)

Other Appearances

  • Sandra Deane – Hairdresser  – Bunty Annual 1978 [Artist: George Martin]
  • Sandra Deane, Apprentice Hairdresser  – Bunty Annual 1979 [Artist: George Martin]

Sally at Sylvano’s

Bunty,

Plot

Sally Shaw leaves school and starts work at Sylvano’s department store. She wants to be a window dresser, but Miss Newman, the head window dresser, is being deliberately hard on her to test her resolve while the other assistants are snobby and then jealous. Sally finds solace in a wonderful secret – using the basement to practise her own window-dressing.

Notes

Appeared

  • Sally at Sylvano’s –  Bunty: 1964. no publication dates currently available

Tina the Tester (1967-68)

Bunty, ,

Plot

Tina Roberts works for a firm that tests new products to ensure they live up to the manufacturers’ claims before they go on sale. This leads to all sorts of scrapes and adventures.

Notes

  • Art: Diane Gabbot (also Gabbott)
  • Art: Tony Speer (PSL)

Appeared

  • Tina the Tester –  Bunty: #519 (December 23 1967) – #530 (March 9 1968).

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances:

  • Tina the Tester – Bunty annual 1969 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – Bunty annual 1970 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – Bunty annual 1971 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – Bunty annual 1974 [Art: Diane Gabbott]

Summer Specials:

  • Tina the Tester – Bunty Summer Special 1968 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – Bunty Summer Special 1971 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – Bunty Summer Special 1972 [Art: Diane Gabbott]
  • Tina the Tester – BuntySummer Special 1973. [Art: Diane Gabbott]

Picture Story Library:

  • Tina the Tester –  Bunty Picture Story Library  #242 [Tony Speer]

 

The Wilde Bunch

Bunty,

Plot

Carol Wilde has to find and manage a new bunch of children for a model agency. As the children have to be ordinary, cheeky and scruffy kids off the streets, this assignment is a handful for Carol.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Wilde Bunch –  Bunty:  #1619 (21 January 1989) – #1630 (8 April 1989)

Other Appearances

  • The Wilde Bunch –  Bunty Annual 1990

Ring for Rita

Bunty,

Plot

Rita Rawlings runs a one-girl Escort Agency and takes on any request, however unusual. And unusual is the word.

Notes

  • Episodic series, in issue #895 it indicated another story would be in the following week’s issue, but it did not appear, the series did return later around issue #922.

Appeared

  • Ring for Rita –  Bunty: #892 (15 February 1975) – #895 (8 March 1975)
  • Ring for Rita –  Bunty: circa #922 (13 September 1975) -(?)

Hilary of the Happy Bus

Mandy

Plot:

Hilary Drew is the youngest member of the team in charge of Manchester’s mobile playgroup, which is known as the Happy Bus.

Happy Bus

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Hilary of the Happy Bus–  Mandy: #625 (6 January 1979) – #628 (27 January 1979) [no episode issue #627]

Other Appearances:

  • Hilary of the Happy Bus –  Mandy Annual 1979
  • Hilary of the Happy Bus –  Mandy Annual 1981
  • Hilary of the Happy Bus –  Mandy Annual 1982

The Red Maria

Judy, ,

Plot:

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.

red maria

Notes:

  • Art: Bert Hill

Appeared:

  • The Red Maria– Judy:  #807 (28 June 1975) – #820 (27 September 1975)