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Our Very Own Princess!

Plot:

Zelda Smith works with her cruel uncle and aunt in a fake mind-reading act and is billed as Princess Zelda. She runs away and is befriended by some urchins who take her for a real princess. She maintains the pretence to keep herself in hiding.

Princess 1

Notes:

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne

Appeared:

  • Our Very Own Princess! – Mandy: #1139 (12 November 1988) – #1146 (31 Dec. 1988)
  • Reprinted (as Mandy Classic) –  M&J: #245 (20 January 1996) – #252 (09 March 1996).

 

Goldilocks and the Two Barrs

Plot

Louisa “Goldilocks” Marshfield, the daughter of wealthy parents, is carried off with pauper children by mistake to slave in a cotton mill. She escapes with Tim and Annie Barr, but the road back to her home in London is a hard and dangerous one.

Goldilocks

 Notes

  • Writer: Marion Turner (under pen-name: Fiona Turner)
  • Script submitted had the title Goldilocks and the Golden Guineas but was changed to Goldilocks and the Two Barrs for publication.

Appeared

  • Goldilocks and the Two Barrs – Tracy:  #44 (2 August 1980) – #54 (11 October 1980)