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Little Miss Frozen Face

Bunty, Lucky Charm, , , , , , ,

Plot

Jo-Ann Morton, a rising tennis star, earns the name “Visage Glacial” (Frozen Face)  in France after she wins the Europa Junior Tournament while her parents died in a crash and she quickly goes on to compete in another competition. Unknown to all the gossipers, Jo-Ann’s aunt had not told her the news during the match and afterwards told her that her father left  lot of debt and embezzled money from a children’s home, so she would need to compete to earn her keep and to make her her father’s good name wasn’t ruined.

Jo-Ann plays but she no longer has a love of the game, and never showing happiness on her face only builds her Frozen Face reputation. Her aunt continues to exploit and blackmail her. She makes a friend with Sir Sam Haigh, a millionaire mill owner, but due to his appearance her aunt Maud thinks he’s a commoner. Finally having a friend to confide in Sam helps clear her father’s name and expose the real culprit, her Aunt Maud. Free from her, Jo-Ann can finally begin to live her life again and play tennis for her own enjoyment.

 

Notes

  • Story Art: Mario Capaldi.
  • Art Lucky Charm Cover: Ian Kennedy

Appeared

  • Little Miss Frozen Face – Bunty: #784 (20 January 1973) – #803 (2 June 1973)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm: #17 (1982)

Trudy Ten-Legs

Bunty, Lucky Charm, , , ,

Plot

Trudy Ross earns the nickname “Trudy Ten-Legs” as she’s hardly ever seen without her uncle’s two horses, Chief and Hero. When her uncle (who she lives with) dies, she has to figure out a way to keep the two horses. Avoiding authorities, she finds places to stay and  begins earning money by taking part in competitions. She takes on two hunt dogs and finds friends that help her, providing food. She runs into trouble with two snobby girls, who are not happy with a scruff winning competitions.

When Chief is sick, to save him she turns herself in and gets sent to an Approved School with Hero, but while Chief has recovered from illness he is pining for Trudy and Hero, so she runs away to reunite with him.  When she stops a girl, Maude, from whipping her horse, the police catch up with her. Her day in court turns to her favour, as Maude’s father, a lawyer, actually is appalled by his daughter’s behaviour and comes to Trudy’s defense. Due to confusion over her leap year birthday, Trudy is proved to be 16 and therefore she could leave school when she wants. She goes on to get job at stable with Mr Grampton, the owner of the hunt dogs and a helper to Trudy, and then she becomes junior top show jumper.

Notes

  • Art: Dudley Wynne
  • Art Lucky Charm Cover: Ian Kennedy

Appeared

  • Trudy Ten-Legs – Bunty: #632 (21 February 1970) – #651 (4 July 1970)
  • Reprinted – Lucky Charm: #6 (1980)

Lynn and the Lady in Black

Mandy, , ,

Plot

Twelve year old Lynn lived in Endervale Orphange. While exporing an old house nearby she met a strange veiled lady.  She at first mistook Lynn for her daughter who had died three years previously in a road accident. She had been Dame Elizabeth Dophan a famous concert pianist but since the accident had cut herself off from the outside world, with only her housekeeper Mrs Hacker, for company. Lynn continued to visit the dame in the hope she could get her playing piano again and bring her happiness.

Notes

  • Art: “B. Jackson”

Appeared

  • Lynn and the Lady in Black – Mandy: #267 (26 February 1972) – #271 (25 March 1972)

Storm, Son of the Moors

Judy, ,

Plot

Storm was a wild, unbranded, two-year-old colt, living free on Dartmoor. Unbranded and therefore unclaimed by any of the Dartmoor ‘commoners’, men with the ancient right to run their stock loose on the moor, Storm was considered a prize worth chasing by many of the local farmers. But the only human-being he trusted was Nell Baker, an orphan girl who lived alone in a cottage on the moor.

Notes

  • Art: Oliver Passingham
  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch as “Storm” – Vakantie album #1 (circa 1978)

Appeared

  • Storm, Son of the Moors –  Judy: #619 (20 November 1971) – #630 (5 February 1972)

Steeple Jill

Judy, ,

Plot

Jillian Jackson was brought up by her grandparents after her parents died. When her grandfather a steeple-jack develops eye problems, fifteen year old Jill leaves school to take over the business, but not everyone is ready to except a young girl as a steeple-jack.

Notes

  • Art: Eduardo Feito

Appeared

  • Steeple Jill– Judy: #542 (30 May 1970) – #547 (04 July 1970)

Other Appearances:

  • Steeple Jill– Judy Annual 1971

Dangerous Destiny

Debbie, , , ,

Plot

Unknown to Marie Talbot, her mother had been killed in a circus accident when Marie was a small child. Terrified that she would share the same fate, Marie’s Grandfather had banned her from doing gymnastics.

Notes

  • Art: George Martin
  • Translated into Dutch as “Geboren voor acrobatiek” (Born for Gymnastics) and published in Mariska Starstrip #4 (1980s).

Appeared

  • Dangerous Destiny – Debbie:  #492 (17 July 1982) – #501 (18 September 1982)

I’ll Make Her Love Me

Debbie,

Plot

In Victorian London 12 year old, Polly Peters escaped from the poor house where she had been taken after the death of her parents.  After an accident, Polly and her dog, Rags, were taken in  by businessman Mr Turner. When he had to go away for work, Mrs Turner rejected both of them, despite Polly’s effort to win her love, she even sent Rags away.

Notes

Appeared

  • I’ll Make Her Love Me – Debbie: #424 (28 March 1981)  – #431 (16 May 1981)

Ellie All Alone!

Debbie,

Plot

Orphan Ellie Snow  was forced into stealing by her brutal Uncle Fred. She was arrested for bag snatching and she escaped dazed and shocked, when the police car crashed. She hitched a lift to Devonshire then collapsed in the doorway of village shop and the owner Mrs Warner mistook her for her own niece Helen, who was due to arrive that day.

Notes

Appeared

  • Ellie All Alone  – Debbie: #414 (17 January 1981) – #423 (21 March 1981)