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Penny and the Portrait

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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)

 

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)