Tag Archives: Period story

Hetty with the Healing Hand (1981)

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Plot

Hetty Holt has a strange mark on her hand that gives her the power to heal. The Maggs take advantage of it and her, threatening to denounce her as a witch if she does not comply with their demands. (Hetty lives in an age that is past the witch hunting era, but the superstition is still strong among the lower classes.)

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Notes

  • Artist Hugo D’Adderio
  • Translated into Dutch (as Hetty – en haar dieren — Hetty and Her Animals) and published in Debbie #42 (circa 1984).

Appeared:

  • Hetty with the Healing Hand – Debbie: #448 (12  Sep 1981) – #459 (28 Nov 1981)

Botany Belle

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Plot:

The scheming governess Miss Fallon switches Lady Merrilee Manners, the ward of Sir Anthony Manners and heiress to Roxham Hall, with Belle Thorn, a thief. As a result, Lady Merrilee gets five years in Botany Bay for theft while Miss Fallon passes off Belle as Merrilee.

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Botany Belle –  Bunty: #1554 (24  October 1987) – #1565 (09 January 1988).

Sadie’s Sewing Machine

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Plot

In 1870s Colorado, Sadie Heritage, her father and her brother Rolf’s family arrive in the boom town of Kowawa Springs. The men of the family find it difficult to get work, but Sadie is making ends meet with her sewing machine. The men eventually find good jobs, but Rolf’s family are still hanging on and expect Sadie to slave for them all the time.

Notes

  • Art: E C Julien

Appeared

  • Sadie’s Sewing Machine –  Bunty: no publication dates currently available

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances:

  • Sadie’s Sewing Machine –  Bunty Annual 1966

The Seeker

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Plot

The famous music hall star Madame Nellie Selba seems to be a hard-hearted woman. But this is a front for her secret identity as The Seeker, a mysterious masked woman who helps runaway girls. Her goal is to find her own daughter, who was rendered homeless and turned out on the streets while Nellie was looking for work. When she finally traces her daughter, she discovers she has fallen foul of a racket that sells homeless children into slavery.

Notes

  • Artist: Douglas Perry

Appeared

  • The Seeker –  Bunty: #2014 (17 August 1996) – #2051 (3 May 1997)

Other Appearances

Annual Appearances

  • The Seeker –  Bunty Annual 1997

Picture Story Library

  • The Seeker – Bunty Picture Story Library #319
  • Return of the Seeker – Bunty Picture Story Library #377

A New Life for Lily

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Plot

In Victorian times, Polly Bond and her little sister Lily live in poverty. Polly sees a chance to improve her sister’s life by leaving her on the doorstep of the wealthy Delbert family so she will be adopted by them. After four years in a workhouse, Polly comes to the Delbert household as a scullery maid, telling nobody that she and Lily are sisters. But Polly is shocked to find her sweet little sister is now spoiled and selfish!

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Notes

  • Artist: Douglas Perry

Appeared

  • A New Life for Lily –  Bunty:  #1895 (7 May 1994) – #1905 (July 16, 1994)

The Secret Servant

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Plot

Sarah Armstrong’s cruel uncle took over her old home after her father died and his current will left everything to the uncle. There is a new will, which leaves everything to Sarah and her mother, but it is in the house somewhere and there are only three months to find it. Sarah disguises herself by dyeing her hair and takes a job as a servant in the house to find the will. In the meantime, Sarah is finding how hard the life of a servant is.

Notes

  • Art: “B Jackson”

Appeared

  • The Secret Servant–  Bunty:  #1984 (20 January 1996) – (?)

Children of the Night

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Plot

The evil Aunt Mabel runs an orphanage for homeless children where she shuts out sunlight on them, making them blind by day but able to navigate in the dark. This is so she can send them out to steal at night. When justice catches up with Aunt Mabel, the children are taken in by the generous and wealthy Mrs Rigby, who is given one month to reform them.

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Notes

  • Artist: John Woods

Appeared

  • Children of the Night –  Bunty: circa #717 (October 9, 1971) – circa Bunty #734 (February 5, 1972)
  • Reprinted: #1183 (September 13, 1980) – #1200 (10 January 1981)

The Westfield Wager

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Plot

Rose Westfield’s Uncle Joshua has gambled away most of the family’s prized possessions. Then he makes a wager with Sir Ralph Granger, staking all the money Sir Ralph has won from him against Rose’s horse Midnight that she can ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in ten days. If she fails, she loses Midnight, but agrees to the race on condition her Uncle Josh give up gambling. Rose is confident of winning, but is up against added difficulties of Sir Ralph’s groom Sykes out to stop her and then her eyesight beginning to fail after a blow to her head.

Notes

Appeared

  • The Westfield Wager  –  Bunty: #1616 (31 December 1988) – #1627 (18 March 1989)

The Hooded Angel

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Plot

In Victorian times, Henrietta Fairnsworth adopts the disguise of the Hooded Angel to secretly help the poor. She has to contend with the cruel Silas Baines, the pit manager who has been left in charge of the house while her father is away.

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Notes

  • Photo story. Most of the story was shot on location at The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish, Country Durham.

Appeared

  • The Hooded Angel –  Bunty:  #1946 (29 April 1995) – #1949 (20 May 1995)