Rose Skinner and her Aunt Liza make a living out of Rose’s ability to gain the confidence of well-to-do people in Victorian London. These included an elderly woman Lady Rivers and later she becomes companion to rich and selfish Clara Enderby. 
Artist: Don Walker
As a result of the Earth passing through the tail of Valdor’s comet, a tidal wave sank a school cruise ship. Only twelve youngsters survived and they drifted in a life boat to an island where all the inhabitants had mysteriously died. When the town had become too unhealthy to live in, the survivors built two huts in the country. The Survivors began to realise they could be the only people left alive in the world.
The Survivors – Judy: 813 (09 August 1975) – #832 (20 December 1975)
Jane Taggart had been coached by her guardian, Rachel Strong, known as “the Coach”, who had filled the girl’s life with tennis even to the extent of chaining her to her racket. When Jane joined a professional tennis “circus” run by Jack Miller, he and his wife decided to arrange a party for Jane, but a jealous rival player, Pauline Fox, told Jane that if she went to the party there would be more to follow, eating into the time she would have for practising and playing tennis.
Roberta Temple, a go-ahead young teacher at Barton Academy, has written and produced a new school show, “The Last Chord.” But the day before the show is due to take place, Roberta is notified by the school governors that ‘ the show is not to be permitted. Next day, when Roberta arrives at school she finds the girls have staged a protest over the cancellation.
Alison and Kit Lawson are spending the summer holidays with Aunt Vera. They befriend a strange girl called Emma. They realise Emma is a ghost and set about unravelling the mystery about her.
Topsy Saunders is a member of a gymnastics team formed at her school by a new gym teacher, Miss Karen Gibson. Topsy’s father, a sergeant In the Security Branch of the Army, asks her to keep an eye.on Miss Gibson, as he suspects she may be working with a gang of spies. When the gymnastics team visits Westport Naval Base to give a display, Topsy suspects that Miss Gibson is using a miniature camera, hidden in a lapel brooch, to photograph ships. Topsy deliberately stands in front of Miss Gibson to see what she will do.
Topsy returns, and joins the league of youth gymnastic team on a tour of britain, hoping to unmask a secret agent. The chief suspects are Pamela Redfern, the girls’ team manager, a man named Garner, and a mystery acrobat. Topsy asks Kathy Bellamy, who knows about her secret mission, to follow Garner. But she is captured. Topsy trails Kathy to a lonely place called Stoddard’s corner and manages to rescue her from a derelict mill where Garner is holding her prisoner.
In another adventure Topsy and her father are asked by a runaway Hungarian scientist, Jozsef Piros, to fake a message to his daughter Karol, living under an assumed name in Budapest. Sergeant Saunders is arrested by Blodek, a secret police agent. When Topsy goes to ask help from Laszlo, a British agent, she walks into a trap.
In “Topsy and the Scientist’s Secret” Topsy and her father, are fighting Zvolk, a sinister organisation bent on becoming masters of the world by using the unwitting aid of a number of scientists. Pursued by Zvolk agents, Topsy, her father and Professor Czerny, one of the scientists, escape in a launch down the River Danube.
Other Appearances:
Betty Ramsden works behind the scenes with the Bluebird Dancing Troupe. Betty is always on hand to keep the show running smoothly. When she is unable to join the Troupe on tour she temporarily joins another theatre group. Things don’t run too smoothly when a fire breaks out and a dancer blames Betty because she broke her lucky charm.
Other Appearances:
Annual Appearances
Summer Specials
Picture Story Library
Picture Stories
In the 1900s the Dale family work as a group of travelling music hall artistes. Sara the youngest child finds an old costume hamper and borrows a song book from it. Then strange things happen as if someone was watching over the items in the hamper.
