Tag Archives: science fiction

Gameplay / Gameplay Level 2

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Plot

Margie Johnson discovers that her sister Katie’s computer has become infected by an evil computer game called Irma. Irma starts to control Katie and then attack Margie.

Irma returns in Gameplay Level 2.  The evil computer game, ‘Irma’, had been bought by Alison Swann, a pupil at the local school. Alison discovered that Irma had to be played for real and reached the first level of the game by getting Irma on to the big television screen at the second-year disco, so that it could influence the children. But Margie Johnson, who had tangled with Irma before, managed to switch it off. Now Irma wanted Margie kept out of the hockey practice and Alison had shut her in the computer room — with Irma!

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(Gamplay – Art: Oliver Passingham)

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(Gameplay Level 2 – Art: Mike Dorey)

 Notes

  • Artist: Oliver Passingham (Gameplay)
  • Artist: Mike Dorey (Gameplay  Level 2)

 Appeared

  • Gameplay – M&J:  #97 (20 March 1993) – #106 (22 May 1993)
  • Gameplay Level 2 – M&J:  #168 (30 July 1994) – #176 (24 September 1994)

The Girl Who Came Back

Judy, ,

Plot

Aurora, a girl living in the year 2100 A.D., takes part in a time travel experiment, but instead of travelling back 100 years in time , she arrives at Druidsmere, a girls’ boarding school, the year 1965, (present time for the story). She is mistaken for Dawn Ashley, a new girl who was expected at the school but who has had to go into hospital. Aurora, who can read minds and hypnotise people with a glance, takes Milly Malone and her friend Ann Simpson into her confidence and tells them she is lost in time. girl who came back

Notes

Appeared

  • The Girl Who Came Back – Judy:  #304 (6 November 1965) – #317 (5 February 1965)

The Isle of a Million Wings

Judy, , ,

Plot:

It is the year 2005 and it seems chemical sprays have wiped out the world’s insect population, including the bees, bringing a dire shortage of food because there are no insects to pollinate the plants.  Jill and Wilma Bright have been banished for one year to a lonely island in the South Atlantic as a punishment for protecting wild birds, which eat precious food stocks.  Jill and Wilma find a boat and set out on a fishing trip, only to be blown by a storm to an unknown island where they discover an old man who has managed to domesticate bees. But now old Mr Duffy has been caught in a squall while attending to the boat and the girls see him being swept out to sea.

isle of a million wings

Notes:

  • Art: Oliver Passingham

Appeared:

  • The Isle of a Million Wings – Judy:  #285 (26 June 1965) – #293 (21 August 1965)

Meg and the Magic Robot

Tracy, , , , , , , ,

Plot

In 1925, Syd and Maud Weston force their niece Meg to fake being a Magic Robot. Meg goes along with the fraud because she thinks her uncle is sending money to pay for her brother Tommy’s treatment at a clinic in Switzerland. But the truth is that Uncle Syd is pocketing the money and Tommy is in the care of an old woman in the vicinity.

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Notes

  • Artist: Rodney Sutton

Appeared

  • Meg and the Magic Robot – Tracy: #142 (19 June 1982) –  #151 (21 August 1982)

Moira and the Moonflowers

Tracy, ,

Plot

Moira Penrose’s father conducts a botany experiment that goes badly wrong. He creates the Moonflowers, which cause anyone to go near them bad-tempered. He is currently in hospital, so it is up to Moira to destroy the Moonflowers. The trouble is, the Moonflowers can exercise an evil power over Moira and force her to do what they want.

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Notes

  • Artist: Rodney Sutton

Appeared

  • Moira and the Moonflowers – Tracy: #106 (10 October 1981) – #119 (9 January 1982)

Ten Against The Tryptons

Bunty, ,

Plot:

Long Barrow School had been invaded by girls from the planet Trypton, and placed under a “Dome of Blackness” cutting it off from the outside world. Trypton would soon no longer support life, and the girls had been sent to test the intelligence on Earth. If the ten chosen Long Barrow pupils proved to be inferior to their Trypton counterparts, then the invaders from space would come to Earth as rulers.

Ten Against The Tryptons

Notes:

  • Artist: Tony Thewenetti

Appeared:

  • Ten Against The Tryptons–  Bunty:  #1110 (21 April 1979) –  #1121 (7 July 1979)

 

Bike Rider

Bunty, , ,

Plot:

Sandy Clark’s uncle, an inventor, had built her an unusual bike – a computerised super bike that could talk and even fly. But only Sandy and her uncle knew about its unusual powers, everyone else wonders who the mysterious rider was.

bike rider

Notes:

  • Art: Robert MacGillivray

Appeared:

  • Bike Rider –  Bunty:    #1429 (01 June 1985) – ?

 

Other Appearances:

Annual Appearances

  • Bike Rider –  Bunty Annual 1988 [Art: Robert MacGillivray]
  • Bike Rider –  Bunty Annual 1990 [Art: Andy Tew]

Summer Specials

  • Bike Rider –  Bunty Summer Special 1985 [Art: Robert MacGillivray]