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Princess from the Past

Mandy, ,

Plot

Twins Toni and Tessa Taylor are devoted sisters but different in character; Toni is boisterous and mischievous while Tessa is quiet and thoughtful. At an exhibition on Ancient Egypt, the twins hear about twin princesses who were also different in character; one kind and one evil. The evil twin poisoned the kind twin, assumed the throne, and her reign was a cruel one. After Tessa gets a strange shock from a goblet that the evil sister may have used to poison the kind one, Toni starts acting evil towards her.

Princess

Notes

Appeared

  • Princess from the Past–  Mandy:  #737 (28 February 1981) – #746 (2 May 1981)

 

Diana and the Doomstone

Mandy, ,

Plot

Diana Blake brings home a stone, and her sculptor father carves it into a bust. Diana starts feeling strange powers coming from the stone. Then she starts acting as if she is hypnotised and doing things that are completely out of character.

Doomstone

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • Translated into Dutch as “Diana en de doemsteen” and published in Groot Tina Herfstboek #2/1982 (1982).

Appeared

  • Diana and the Doomstone –  Mandy:  #690 (05 April 1980) – #701 (21 June 1980)

 

Lucy’s Locket

Mandy, , ,

Plot:

Lucy Lane is given a locket by her Great-Aunt Jane for her 13th birthday. Then Aunt Jane sends a letter saying that the locket belonged to someone who may have dabbled in witchcraft, and any object put in it will cause its owner to have bad luck. Aunt Jane says she does not believe it, but Lucy is not so sure after seeing what happened when she put a photograph of her boyfriend in it.

Locket

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Lucy’s Locket –  Mandy: #684(23 February 1980) – #688 (22 march 1980)

 

Head of Hate!

Mandy,

Plot:

Gemma Andrews makes fun of a museum statue of the Greek monster Medusa the Gorgon and pays the price. Afterwards Medusa’s head keeps appearing to Gemma in reflective surfaces. Every time it does, Gemma turns spiteful and destructive and does not remember her behaviour afterwards. Eventually Gemma gets a translation of some words from the statue. It says that in order to break Medusa’s power, something of hers must be destroyed. But Gemma does not know what the “something” is because the key word is missing.

Medusa

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Head of Hate! –  Mandy: (?) – #1138 (5 November, 1988)

 

Penny and the Portrait

Mandy, , , ,

Plot

Penny Fairfax has lived in a children’s home until she goes to live with distant relatives. Penny unearths a portrait of a girl who looks just like her. The portrait is of Miranda Fairfax, an ancestress who was burned as a witch. Now Miranda is exerting an evil power over Penny to wreak revenge on the descendants of the people who burned her.

Portrait

Notes

  • Artist: Guy Peeters

Appeared

  • Penny and the Portrait – Mandy: #557 (17 September 1977) – #568 (3 December 1977)

 

The Mystery of Mavora

Mandy, , , ,

Plot

Shirley Duffield is on holiday at her grandfather’s cottage beside the sea. She becomes fascinated by Mavora, a rock that looks like a mermaid combing her hair and beckoning. Legend has it that Mavora has lured many seamen to their deaths, and Shirley is now hearing strange voices that come from the direction of the rock. Then Shirley finds a comb that suggests that there may have been a real mermaid.

Mavora

Notes

  • Artist: Richard Neillands
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Het mysterie van Mavora” – Debbie #21 (1980).

Appeared

  • The Mystery of Mavora –  Mandy:  #528 (26 February 1977) – #536 (23 April 1977)

 

The Trouble with Emmeline

Mandy, ,

Plot:

Nicky Jones is delighted to receive a Victorian doll named Emmeline for her 13th birthday. Then Nicky realises Emmeline is evil and causing accidents around the place, but cannot convince her parents.

Eventually, Nicky discovers Emmeline had been sent to her by mistake; there was confusion with an elderly Miss Jones. When Nicky takes Emmeline to the correct address, she discovers Miss Jones has a male Victorian doll, Emmeline’s partner. Once the dolls are reunited, Emmeline is at peace and the trouble ceases. Emmeline

Notes:

  • Artist: Len Potts

Appeared:

  • The Trouble with Emmeline –  Mandy:  #471 (24 January 1976) – #484 (24 April 1976)

 

Shadow on Celia

Judy

Plot

Young Ceila Hampton, filming the life  of Catherine Laidlow, burnt as a witch in the 15th century, imagined she had been taken over by Catherine. In the woods near Laidlow Castle, Celia frightened her friend, Sally, also in the film, by speaking in a different voice.

shadow-on-celia

Notes

Appeared

  • Shadow on Celia –  Judy: #1237 (24 September 1983) – #1246 (26 November 1983)

Sue Sprinter

Judy, ,

Plot

After buying a statuette of an ancient Greek  runner called Laonicus, Sue Sprinter became obsessed with winning. She won the school hundred metres and helped her school relay team to victory at the inter-school sports. But she was strangely unaware of how nastily she acted at times.

sue-sprinter

Notes

  • Art: Colin Merrett
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “De geheime kracht van Laonicus” (“Laonicus’ Secret Force”) – Peggy + plus #11 (1985/6)

Appeared

  • Sue Sprinter–  Judy: #1225 (02 July 1983) – #1240 (15 October 1983)

Bad Penny (1987)

Judy, , ,

Plot

Boastful and selfish Penny Thorpe had stolen  an old coin from a blind man. It was having a bad influence over her life, spoiling her chance to join school swimming team. She made sure the old penny was well and truly buried when a road outside he school was relaid — but, soon afterwards, Miss Melbury,the swimming teacher, had a road accident and Penny got the coin back.

bad-penny-2

Notes

  • Art: Eduardo Feito
  • A popular title for stories, there was a humour strip of the same name in Smash! as well as, two other Judy stories had the same name in the 70s;  Bad Penny (1977)  and the 90s; Bad Penny (1990)

Appeared

  • Bad Penny –  Judy: #1458 (19 December 1987) – #1467 (20 February 1988)