Tag Archives: orphan

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

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)

Anna in the House of Hate

Debbie, ,

Plot

Anna Small left virtually penniless after the death of her father was given a job by a distant relative, John Trelawney, cataloguing the books in the library of his home, the bleak forbidding Ravenscrag Towers. Also living there was John’s daughter a cripple confined to bed and hated by her father.

Notes

  • Art: Hugo D’Adderio

Appeared

  • Anna in the House of Hate – Debbie:  #346 (29 September 1979) – #351 (3 November 1979)

The Cloud on Sunshine Cottage

Tracy, ,

Plot

Hannah Watson parents were killed in a car crash just before buying their dream house. Afterwards Hannah stays with the Hoppers who ended up buying the house instead. She felt resentful of this and was determined to put a cloud on their happiness

Notes

  • Writer: Alison Christie (Fitt)

Appeared

  • The Cloud on Sunshine Cottage – Tracy: #271 (8 December 1984) – #277 (19 January 1985)

Little Annie Rooney

Tracy,

Plot

Little Annie Rooney was originally a 1920s comic strip for King Features Syndicate , about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero.

Notes

  • First printed January 10, 1927 and ran until 1966
  • It had similarities to another popular comic strip Little Orphan Annie
  • There were several creators over the years, the reprinted strips in Tracy were by Brandon Walsh and Darrell McClure

Appeared

  • Little Annie Rooney – Tracy:   #214 (5 November 1983) – #228 (11 February 1984)