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Cathy – Queen of Cooks

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Plot

Cathy Cooke was a girl with never a spare moment. Since her mother died, three years before, she had looked after the home, doing all the cleaning herself and taking care of her disabled father and her younger brothers and sisters. To help out the family’s meagre income, she /delivered papers and had to get up early every morning. To add to her busy schedule she had now entered a cooking contest Queen of Cooks. She was talented cook but one of the contest judges Miss Barker, was Cathy’s school cookery teacher, who hated her.

Notes

Appeared

  • Cathy – Queen of Cooks – Mandy: #49 (23 December 1967) – (?)

Seven Tests for Silverdale 

Judy, ,

Plot:

Seven girls from Silverdale School have been chosen to take part in a series of contests against a similar team from Garston School.  The winning team will gain for their school a legacy left in the will of a local eccentric, Miss Trotter who had, in her youth, attended both schools. The contest is being held in a special camp, and the adjudicator is Miss Berman. The girls of Silverdale have lost the first two contests, and suspect foul play.

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Notes:

Appeared:

  • Seven Tests for Silverdale – Judy:  #451 (31 August 1968) – (?)

 

 

Queen of the Five Valleys

Mandy

Plot

Gwyneth Williams,  who lived alone with her blind father, was competing for the title of Queen of the Five Valleys. The queen was chosen once every 25 years in the Welsh district where Gwyneth lived, and because Gwyneth’s dead mother had been the last queen, her blind father dreamt of Gwyneth winning the title, too. Gwyneth did not think she possessed her mother’s charm and beauty, but after many setbacks she reached the quarter-finals of the competition.

Notes

Appeared

  • Queen of the Five Valleys –Mandy: #5 (18 February 1967) – #12 (8 April 1967)
  • Reprinted – Mandy: #328 (28 April 1973).- #335 (16 June 1973)

Katy’s Cook-Book

Mandy,

Plot

Katy Boyd was treated like a skivvy in the house and  cafe belonging to her Aunt Connie.In an effort to better herself she entered a cookery competition sponsored by Prior’s Pure Foods. The contestants had to build a recipe book with loose-leaf pages awarded for success in a series of cooking tests.

Notes

Appeared

  • Katy’s Cook-Book – Mandy: #599 (8 July 1978) – #608 (9 September 1978)

Princess of the Tower

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Valerie Hall and her sisters, Edna and Jo. lived in Angel Tower,  a high rise block of flats built near Oakhill Estate. The people of Oakhill Estate, where Edna’s boyfriend, Greg Palmer, lived with his family, did not want high flats next to them. To try to cool down the situation, the council organised a contest to choose a Princess of the Tower — the girl who would do most to bring the two communities together. Val was putting on a concert to help the local Home for Crippled Children.  Val had made an enemy of Helen Wade, her closest rival in the contest.

Notes

  • Artist: Andrew Wilson

Appeared

  • Princess of the Tower – Mandy: #494 (03 July 1976) – #503 (4 September 1976)