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Penny’s Partner

Plot:

Penny Farrell is a rising tennis star as the result of her partnership with T Jones. But there is something strange about T Jones, who seems to have powers of precognition.

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Notes:

  • This story is influenced by the football-based 1948 text serial “The Goal Maker”, from The Wizard.

Appeared:

  • Penny’s Partner – Tracy:   #38 (21 June 1980) – #44 (02 August 1980)

 

The Secret of Misty Island

Plot

Rambling over the wild cliffs near the Scottish fishing village where she lives, Aileen Andrews, sees a pigeon shot down. On its leg she finds a message saying that her brother, Hector, who was presumed lost at sea, is a prisoner on Misty Island. Dirk, the man who, shot the pigeon down, discovers that Aileen has read the message and forces her back to the motorboat in which his companion, Angus, is waiting to take him back to Misty Island.secret of misty island

Notes

Appeared

  • The Secret of Misty Island – Judy:  #191 (07 September 1963) – #197 (19 October 1963)

Mystery at Minila

Plot

When young Patty Webster arrives at her Uncle John’s coffee plantation in Hubano, she finds that he has mysteriously disappeared off his estate,  and that an unpleasant man named Miguel Silva is now in possession of the estate. As Patty leaves, a girl warns her that her Uncle John is in great danger.

mystery at miinila

Notes

Appeared

  • Mystery at Minila  – Judy:  #170 (13 April 1963) – #177 (01 June1963)

Sandra of the Secret Ballet (Sequels)

Plot

Sandra Wilson is taken in by Madame Sierra and trained as a ballerina at her secret castle on an island. Full details of her first adventure can be found here .

Sandra returned in several sequels, each with its own title. At the end of Sandra and the Runaway Ballet, Sandra leaves the school and joins the Edmond Lawrence Ballet Company and later still the Imperial Ballet Company. Her adventures often involved solving mysteries, such as who murdered another company member (Baffling Ballet) and who was blaming mysterious accidents on Hoodoo magic (Hoodoo Ballet).

Notes

  • Art: Paddy Brennan

List of Appearances:

  • Sandra of the Secret Ballet –  Judy:  #01 (06 Jan 1960) – #55 (28 Jan. 1961)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #325 (02 March 1966) – #379 (15 April 1967)
  • Reprinted – Judy and Tracy: #1306 (19 Jan. 1985) – #1361 (08 Feb. 1986)
  • Sandra of the Castle Ballet – Judy: #56 (4 Feb. 1961) – #62 (18 March 1961)
  • Reprinted –  Judy: #380 (22 April 1967) – #386 (03 June 1967)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm: #2 (1979)
  • Reprinted – Judy and Tracy: #1362 (15 February 1986) – #1368 (29 March 1986)
  • Sandra and the Runaway Ballet – Judy: #86 (02 Sep. 1961) – #106 (20 Jan. 1962)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #387 (10 June 1967) – #408 (4 November 1967)
  • Reprinted as Sandra of the Castle Ballet – Lucky Charm: #2 (1979)
  • Sandra and the Frightened Teacher – Judy:  #107 (27 Jan. 1962) – #116 (31 Mar. 1962)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #409 (11 November 1967) -# 418 (13 January 1968)
  • Sandra and the Hoodoo Ballet – Judy:  #119 (21 April 1962) – #130 (07 July 1962)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #419 (20 January 1968) – #430 (06 April 1968)
  • Sandra and the Dancing Doll – Judy:  #133 (28 July 1962) – #145 (20 Oct. 1962)
  • Reprinted – Judy:  #432 (20 April 1968) – #444 (13 July 1968)
  • Sandra and the Stranded Ballet – Judy: #158 (19 Jan. 1963) – #173 (04 May 1963)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #445 (20 July 1968) – #460 (02 November 1968)
  • Sandra and the Sultan’s Ballet – Judy: #250 (24 Oct. 1964) – #272 (27 Mar. 1965)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #647 (3 June 1972) – #669 (4 November 1972)
  • Reprinted: Lucky Charm: #19 (1982)
  • Sandra and the Sinister Ballet – Judy: #294 (28  Aug. 1965)  – #313 (08 Jan. 1966)
  • Reprinted – Judy: #670 (4 November 1972) – #689 (24 March 1973)
  • Sandra and the Blackmailed Ballet – Judy: #462 (16 Nov. 1968) – #473 (1 Feb. 1969)
  • Reprinted – Judy:  #876 (23 Oct.  1976) – #888 (15 Jan. 1977)
  • Sandra and the Seven Sisters – Judy: #474 (08 Feb. 1969) – #480 (22 Mar. 1969)
  • Sandra and the Girl Nobody Knows – Judy: #481 (29 Mar. 1969) – #485 (26 Apr. 1969)
  • Sandra and the Baffling Ballet – Judy: #486 (03 May 1969) – #491 (07 June 1969)
  • Sandra and the Backstreet Ballerina – Judy:  #631 (12 Feb. 1972) – #645 (20 May 1972)

 

Other Appearances: 

  • Sandra and the Sleeping BeautyJudy Annual 1962
  • Sandra and the Sad Star – Judy Annual 1963
  • Sandra and the Backstreet Ballet Dancer – Judy Annual 1964
  • Sandra and the Sad Story – Judy Annual 1965
  • Sandra and the Snow Ballet – Judy Annual 1966
  • Sandra and the Vengeance Ballet – Judy Annual 1967
  • Sandra and the Ballet of Silver Gulch – Judy Annual 1968
  • Sandra and the Captive Ballet – Judy Annual 1969
  • Sandra’s Shadow – Judy Annual 1970
  • Sandra and the Black Rose – Judy Annual 1972
  • Sandra and the Silver Shoes – Judy Annual 1973
  • Sandra and the Ballet of Macbeth – Judy Annual 1974

 

  • Sandra and the Phantom Ballerina – Judy Picture Story Library: #02 [Art: Claude Berridge}
  • Sandra and the Black Swan – Judy Picture Story Library: #08 [Art: unknown]
  • Sandra and the Snow Ballet – Judy Picture Story Library: #32  [Art: Claude Berridge}
  • Sandra and the Sabotage Ballet – Judy Picture Story Library: #75 [Art: Jose Garcia Pizarro]
  • The Forbidden Ballet – Judy Picture Story Library: #83 [Art: Eduardo Feito]
  • Sandra and the Deadly Secret – Judy Picture Story Library: #100 [Art: Eduardo Feito]

The Voice From Nowhere

Plot

After being adopted by Mrs Jamieson, a woman she never saw, Carol Brown, a talented dancer had been made a prisoner on an island where she was forced to obey a mysterious voice.

The Voice From Nowhere

Notes

  • Art: Stanley Houghton
  • Reprinted and translated into Dutch (as “Stem uit het niets”) – monthly Debbie Stripstory #12/1980.

Appeared

  • The Voice From Nowhere –  Debbie:  #1 (17 February 1973) – #12 (5 May 1973)
  • Reprinted – Debbie:  #338 (4 August 1979) – #349 (10 October 1979)