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The Tammy Trilogy

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Plot

A trilogy of serials starring Tammy Thumbe. Her next door neighbour Bobby Brown is into chemistry, but Bobby’s formulas have strange effects on Tammy. In her first story, Tiny Tammy, Tammy shrinks whenever she gets wet. In her second story, Where’s Tammy?, Tammy becomes invisible. In her third story, Be Your Age, Tammy!, Tammy behaves either too young or too old for her age.

Tammy

Notes

  • Artist: Andrew Wilson

Appeared

  • Tiny Tammy – Mandy: #1150 (28 January 1989) – #1164 (6 May 1989)
  • Where’s Tammy? – Mandy: #1165 (13 May 1989) – #1176 (29 July 1989)
  • Be Your Age, Tammy! Mandy #1229 (4 August 1990)- #1238 (6 October 1990)

Other Appearances:

  • “Where’s Tammy” – Mandy Annual 1991

 

Sleeping Beauty from the Stars

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Plot

On the stern planet Xerox, a beauty queen is banished to the planet Peutridd for playing practical jokes. En route to Peutridd, she escapes aboard an Earth space capsule and falls asleep. On Earth, she is awakened Sleeping-Beauty style by a kiss from reporter Percy Prince. With Percy’s help she takes the name of Stella Saturn and gets a job as a fashion model. But when the Xeroxians discover Stella’s escape they send two of their Collectors to recapture her, which forces her and Percy to go on the run.

Sleeping Beauty

Notes

Appeared

  • Sleeping Beauty from the Stars –  Mandy: #958 (25 May 1985) – #969 (10 August 1985)

 

A Switch in Time [1984]

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Plot

A mysterious girl named Kyra, claiming to be a relative from Australia, arrives at Melanie Clark’s house. Kyra seems to know little about modern life and arrived in Victorian clothes, which convinces Melanie that Kyra is from the year 1884. Then Kyra reveals she is really from 2084 and was sent back in time to 1884 for a history project. But her timeship crashed, stranding her in 1984. Melanie agrees to help keep her secret.

Switch

Notes

  • Artist: Dudley Wynne

Appeared

  • A Switch in Time –  Mandy: #934 (8 December 1984) – #945 (February 23, 1985)

Space Dog U2

Mandy, , ,

Plot:

U2, a robot space dog, escapes from a spaceship during an exploratory visit to Earth. He takes an immediate liking to Jackie Harris and decides to stay. In so doing he is ignoring all starship orders to return, but still transmits information to the starship when he wants to.

Space Dog 1

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Space Dog U2 –  Mandy: #702 (28 June 1980) – #712(06 September 1980)

 

Freda Who?

Mandy, ,

Plot:

Freda arrives at Karen Wilkinson’s house with a letter from her father saying she is a distant relative of the family and they are to take care of her until he returns. But Karen realises there is something strange about Freda; there are peculiar gaps in her knowledge, she says odd things, and she does not seem to understand everyday life.

Feda

Notes:

Appeared:

  • Freda Who? –  Mandy: #680 (26 January 1980) – #691 (12 April 1980)
  • Reprint – Mandy: #1263 (30 March 1991) – #1269 (11 May 1991)

 

The Girl with No Shadow

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Plot

When Reyna Reynolds moves into the empty house next door to Jan Crawford, strange things start happening. The strangest of them all is that Reyna casts no shadow. Jan decides to pretend to be friends with Reyna in order to unravel her secret, although Reyna causes a lot of trouble for Jan.

Shadow

Notes

  • Artist: Richard Neillands

Appeared

  • The Girl with No Shadow –  Mandy:  #479 (20 March 1976) – #493 (26 June 1976)

 

Pam on the Purple Planet

Emma, , , ,

Plot

Nurse Pam Massey is transported, car and all, to the distant Purple Planet in outer space, where a mysterious illness threatens to wipe out the Volentian population. The sickness turns out to be whooping cough! Pam agrees to cross to the uninhabited side of the planet to find a cure. She is accompanied by a six-legged dog called Zeta and a Davit, a flying machine controlled by the Volentians.

pam of purple planet

Notes

  • Art: Jon Davis

Appeared

  • Pam on the Purple Planet – #55 (10 March 1979) – #66 (26 May 1979)

Lost on the Planet of Fear

Judy, Tracy,

Plot:

The Wells family was part of the first group of settlers to land on the planet Guddup, re-named Good Hope by the people back on Earth. Within hours of landing, Pauline and David’s parents, along with the rest of the party, had disappeared. Pauline and David discovered they had been taken to The City of Shining Blue and now they were trying to follow them. In the desert, they came across a ghost-town, where flags from Earth were displayed.

lost on planet of fear

Notes:

  • Art: Eduardo Feito

Appeared:

  • Lost on the Planet of Fear –  Judy and Tracy:  #1338 (31 Aug. 1985) – #1350 (23 Nov. 1985)