Tag Archives: Humour

Quackers

Bunty, ,

Plot

Maisie Moss has a pet duck called Quackers, who is a real character. His personality soon has him in demand for advertisements.

Notes

  • Artist: A E Allen

Appeared

  • Quackers –  Bunty: #896 (15 March 1975) – #907 (31 May 1975) [no episode issue #905]
  • Quackers –  Bunty: #924 (20 September 1975)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Quackers –  Bunty Annual 1976

A Bed Called Fred (1969-1970)

Bunty, ,

Plot:

Under the terms of Uncle Hubert’s will, the relative who pushes his bed all the way from John O’Groats to Land’s End will receive his inheritance. His niece, Katie Fraser, takes the job on, but it has to be done manually (fortunately the bed has castors) because no removal firms are permitted. Along the way the bed acquires the name “Fred”, from the boards that get attached to it when a mechanic motorises it.

Notes:

  • Artist: George Parlett

Appeared:

  • A Bed Called Fred – Bunty: #615 (Oct. 25 1969) – #640 (Apr. 18 1970)

Dopey Dora – the Hope of the School

Bunty,

Plot:

Dora Spoone is the dimmest pupil at Eversford School, and is also the school klutz – everything she does goes wrong. Yet the school computer picks her as the most brilliant scholar, so she is entered along with five other clever pupils in the School of the Year Contest. Ironically, it is Dora’s blundering that is pulling the team through to success. All the same, her team mates want to get rid of her.

dopey_dora

Notes:

  • Art: Charles Morgan

Appeared:

  • Dopey Dora – the Hope of the School–  Bunty: ? (1969) – #633 (28 February 1970)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • Dopey Dora, School Governor – Bunty Annual 1973 [Artist: Charles Morgan]

“It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky/ Inky at St Ives

Bunty, , ,

Plot

Inky is a pup with the gift of the gab, so he tells his own stories of his life as a watchdog at St Ives Boarding School.

inky

Notes

  • Art: Jose Casanovas (1971 series)
  • Art: Carlos Laffond (1975 series)

Appeared

  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty: #717 (9 October 1971) – #741 (25 March 1972)
  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty #789 (24 February 1973) – (?)
  • Inky at St Ives  – Bunty:  #889 (25 January 1975) – #897 (22 March 1975)
    • Reprinted – Bunty: #1408 (5 January 1985)  – #1416 (2 March 1985)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • “It’s A Dogs Life” Says Inky – Bunty Annual 1973

Abracadabra Academy

Bunty, , , ,

Plot:

Jamara Jones comes from a line of witches, but she wants to be an ordinary girl. Moreover, her spells keep backfiring, with hilarious results. However, her mother wants her to follow the family tradition and sends her to Abracadabra Academy, a school for witchcraft.

Notes:

  • Artist: A E Allen

Appeared:

  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1052 (11 March 1978) –  #1061 (13 May 13 1878)
  • Abracadabra Academy –  Bunty: #1078 (9 September 1978) – #1081 (30 September 1978)

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty Annual 1979

Summer Specials

  • Abracadabra Academy – Bunty-Judy Summer Special 1978 [Art: A E Allen]

Snow White and the Seventh Dwarf

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Sara White is nicknamed Snow White by her father. She finds one of the garden gnomes is actually the youngest of the Seven Dwarfs. His name is Grem, and he has been disowned by the other dwarfs for running off with a gang of naughty elves and then turned into stone by a witch for playing tricks. The name of Snow White was needed to break the spell, and now that has happened, Sara is trying to help Grem reform so his brothers will forgive him. But Grem’s efforts don’t seem to go right.

Snow White

Notes

  • Writer: Marion Turner (under pen-name: Fiona Turner)

Appeared

  • Snow White and the Seventh Dwarf –  Mandy: #1213 (14 April 1990) – #1225 (7 July 1990)