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A Miracle for Miriam

Mandy

Plot

Miriam, a young Hebrew girl, had been carried off to Syria and became a slave in the house of Naaman, the famous captain of the King of Syria’s army. Naaman suffered from the terrible, incurable disease of leprosy, but no-one was allowed to speak of this on pain of death. But Miriam felt very sorry for Naaman, who had been kind to her. She told his wife that in Israel there was a holy man called Elisha, who worked miracles and who could cure Naaman of his leprosy.

Notes

Appeared

  • A Miracle for Miriam – Mandy: #115 (29 March 1969) – (?)

Make-and-Mend Molly

Mandy,

Plot

At the end of last century, in a northern mill town, young Molly Bolton was supporting her two sisters and herself with their old sewing machine. Molly vowed that they would never work at Arkell’s mill, where the had conditions had caused the deaths of both their parents. For helping the townspeople against him, mill-owner Joss Arkell turned Molly and her sisters out of their cottage. Rose, who had never been strong, collapsedand the local doctor made Joss Arkell give the girls an attic room in his house where Rose could be nursed back to health. Then a mob attacked the mill. Joss Arkell pleaded with Molly to try to calm the rioters and save his property.

Notes

Appeared

  • Make-and-Mend Molly – Mandy: circa #214  – #218 (20 March 1971)

The Eyes that Haunted Hannah / Sing a Song of Hate!

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Plot

During 1886, fourteen year old Hannah Grey was a singer in the Victorian Music Hall. One night  she made an enemy of Mystro, the famous hypnotist, while she was singing ‘The Little Lost Dog.’ Soon afterwards, whenever she heard that song, Hannah began to have terrible fits of temper which she could never remember. She was without money or friends. Haunted by a vision of Mystro’s eyes, she knew that she must find him to regain her happiness.

Notes

  • Art: Claude Berridge
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch as “Hanna, word wakker” (Hannah, wake up)  – Debbie Parade album #12 (1981).

Appeared

  • The Eyes that Haunted Hannah – Mandy:  #439 (14 June 1975) – #453 (20 September 1975)
  • Reprinted as Sing a Song of Hate! – Mandy: #747 (9 May 1981) – #761 (15 August 1981)

Polly of Paradise Row

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Polly, Vicky and Albert Parkin were trying to support themselves after the death of their parents, to avoid being sent to the Town Orphanage. They were helped by their poor but good-hearted neighbours in Paradise Row.

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Polly uit de Paradijsstraat”) – Debbie #40 (1984).

Appeared

  • Polly of Paradise Row – Mandy: #669 (10 November 1979) – #679 (19 January 1980)

Sally was a Soldier!

Mandy, ,

Plot

During the American Civil war between the Union Army of the North and the Confederate Army of the South, Sally Hogan became a secret agent for the North, although her home was in Confederate Virginia. Disguised as a boy, Sally went to the Confederate-held town of Louisville on a special mission, but was recognised by an old enemy—the brutal Captain Cuff.

Notes

Appeared

  • Sally was a Soldier! – Mandy: #363 (29 December 1972) – #371 (23 February 1974)

The Journey of Inga

Mandy, ,

Plot

Inga, a slave girl of Viking times, was sailing with Harald Strongarm and his band of Norwegians in search of new lands when she became a castaway on the English coast. She then met Padric, a friar, and his tame raven—Tuc. Padric thought that Harald was steering for islands off the north of Scotland, and offered to accompany Inga on her long and hazardous trek in order to catch up with Harald.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Journey of Inga – Mandy: circa #214 (20 February 1971) – (?)

Look Out for Great Big Bess!

Mandy,

Plot

Young Peg Tuttle and her Grandpa came from the prairie regions of America. In 1895, they took a job on a cattle train. The journey ended at Chicago, and it was their first visit to a big city. Twi swindlers sell grandpa a traction engine, thinking he will never be able to go anywhere with it and will have to continue to pay rent on keeping it in the lot. Peg  finds a way around the law though and  they make a plan to drive the machine home, with Peg naming it ‘Great Big Bess’.

Notes

Appeared

  • Look Out for Great Big Bess! – Mandy: #195 (10 October 1970) – (?)

“Father Must Go Free!”

Mandy, ,

Plot

After the Battle of Culloden in 1746. the victorious Redcoats searched the Scottish Highlands for rebels. Although Kenneth MacRae had not taken part in the rebellion, he had been arrested and taken to Fort Augustus. His children. Morag and Ian MacRae, a were seeking Campbell of Mamore, the commander of the Government troops in the West. Campbell knew that Kenneth MacRae was not a rebel and Morag and Ian hoped that he could save their father’s life.

Notes

Appeared

  • “Father Must Go Free!” – Mandy: circa #178 (13 June 1970) – (?)