Does anyone have the ending and issue number for the Bunty story "The Guilt of Glendora", please? And do they also have number of the issue it started in? The story was in 1978, and began around #1058, but we don't have the precise number.
Thanks for any help.
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The Guilt Of Glendora runs in Bunty 1053 (Mar. 18 1978) - 1067 (Jun. 24 1978). As I only looked in on the forum on my way to bed, I hope you don't mind, Tammyfan, if I write up the ending for you tomorrow.Tammyfan wrote:Does anyone have the ending and issue number for the Bunty story "The Guilt of Glendora", please? And do they also have number of the issue it started in? The story was in 1978, and began around #1058, but we don't have the precise number.
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Thank you, Phoenix!
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The ending is developed over the final three issues. Glendora Gale, now known as the drudge Dora Dale, is moved on to a new family, the Maxtons, who unexpectedly prove to be a kind family. As a treat one day they take Dora to the theatre, the play being Sad Little Rich Girl. Dora remembers that she was once rich, selfish and unkind like the main character in the play. When Mrs Maxton lends Dora her opera glasses she is stunned on seeing the face of the actress Ethel Meers, as she is the spitting image of Sara Dawson, the girl she thinks she killed during one of her many bursts of anger in her original family home, the reason indeed why she was persuaded by her cousins, Hester and Harley Bland, to go on the run as she would certainly go to prison if she was picked up by the authorities, and who eventually persuaded her to sign over her riches to them for safe keeping.
Dora goes backstage to see Ethel, who eventually admits that she was handsomely paid by Hester to pretend to be dead. Ethel had been told by Hester that it was a joke being played on Glendora, that they just wanted to give the girl a jolly good fright. Ethel, an honest actress who is not prepared to be a part of any swindle, is now determined to help Glendora, and goes front of house after the play to recount the whole sorry story to the Maxtons. Fortunately Mr Maxton is a lawyer.
The next evening Glendora goes back to the family home to confront Hester and Harley, taking Ethel and Robert Maxton with her, but she goes in alone. Harley tells Ethel that Glendora will have to go on slaving as she is penniless, having signed her house and her fortune over to them. Enter Robert. Job done. Glendora orders the nasty pair, plus Ruby the maid, to leave but she lets them go unpunished. Hester's last words to Glendora ring true. She says, ''You deserved everything that you suffered, Glendora. You made our lives miserable-and now you've had a taste of the same.''
Glendora goes back to the Aiken Academy, where H&H had originally dumped her, with two policemen who arrest Agnes Aiken for fraud and cruelty to children, and close the school down. Mrs Maxton takes Glendora's friend Jessica to live with them, and gives temporary homes to a couple of others.
In later years Glendora is instrumental in improving massively the conditions inside Brigley Prison, an establishment she had been terrified of in her younger days. Her innate anger is now being channelled into caring for others. The guilt of Glendora has taught her much after all.
Dora goes backstage to see Ethel, who eventually admits that she was handsomely paid by Hester to pretend to be dead. Ethel had been told by Hester that it was a joke being played on Glendora, that they just wanted to give the girl a jolly good fright. Ethel, an honest actress who is not prepared to be a part of any swindle, is now determined to help Glendora, and goes front of house after the play to recount the whole sorry story to the Maxtons. Fortunately Mr Maxton is a lawyer.
The next evening Glendora goes back to the family home to confront Hester and Harley, taking Ethel and Robert Maxton with her, but she goes in alone. Harley tells Ethel that Glendora will have to go on slaving as she is penniless, having signed her house and her fortune over to them. Enter Robert. Job done. Glendora orders the nasty pair, plus Ruby the maid, to leave but she lets them go unpunished. Hester's last words to Glendora ring true. She says, ''You deserved everything that you suffered, Glendora. You made our lives miserable-and now you've had a taste of the same.''
Glendora goes back to the Aiken Academy, where H&H had originally dumped her, with two policemen who arrest Agnes Aiken for fraud and cruelty to children, and close the school down. Mrs Maxton takes Glendora's friend Jessica to live with them, and gives temporary homes to a couple of others.
In later years Glendora is instrumental in improving massively the conditions inside Brigley Prison, an establishment she had been terrified of in her younger days. Her innate anger is now being channelled into caring for others. The guilt of Glendora has taught her much after all.
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Thank you Phoenix. I had a suspicion that the guardians were pulling something nasty in having Glendora sign away everything to them, on pretext it would make her safer. And I also suspected Glendora killing Sara was not all as it seemed. But I do think there should have been some punishment for the guardians. Glendora may have behaved badly towards them, but that is no excuse for the trick they pulled on her (and it probably was just an excuse too - the real reason was to get her money). In a lot of stories, the baddies get off waaay too lightly.
Still, the ending was a good one, and I like how it was developed over several episodes instead of everything crammed into one last episode and everything resolved in the last few panels. Tammy's "Sister in the Shadows" is another where the ending is developed over three episodes and I liked its resolution too.
Still, the ending was a good one, and I like how it was developed over several episodes instead of everything crammed into one last episode and everything resolved in the last few panels. Tammy's "Sister in the Shadows" is another where the ending is developed over three episodes and I liked its resolution too.
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Does anyone have the ending to "Detestable Della", which started in Bunty: circa 1064 (03 June 1978) – ?
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.
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Detestable Della ran in Bunty 1056 (Apr. 8 1978) - 1070 (Jul. 15 1978). When the war ends, Della Mornay, condemned as a traitor, is thrown by the other girls into a barbed-wire pen with the Japanese guards. The other girls then break into the hut containing the food. Della warns them not to eat too much too soon, and also warns them to think about what they will do if they don't ration it out over future days. They ignore her advice and even throw some rotten fish at her. However one girl, Sylvia Cho Leng, goes to see Della under cover of darkness to ask her advice about how to stop the foolish girls. Della tells her to find Lim, the Malayan fruit seller and British agent, as he will know what to do. By this time the English girls have set fire to the camp. Lim tells Sylvia that he is informing the military authorities but that is all he can do.
On board a British cruiser, reacting promptly to Lim's message, a decision is taken to fly twelve small planes to Sunuam, each one containing a soldier who will parachute down to the camp. The passenger in one of the planes is Colonel Mornay.
Meanwhile, as Della has predicted, all the girls get sick from eating too much fish, and they assume that Della has warned them because she knew that it was poisoned, and rather more irrationally, that Della helped the Japs to poison it. When the soldiers land the girls immediately tell them that Della has poisoned them. Della tells her father that it isn't true, and that the girls have only been overeating. Colonel Mornay tells the girls that not only is his daughter not a traitor but she has been working for the British all along, fooling the Japs from the very start. The girls have the good grace to apologise. Eventually Della is awarded the George Cross. The girls then give three cheers for Della, the heroine of St. Monica's.
On board a British cruiser, reacting promptly to Lim's message, a decision is taken to fly twelve small planes to Sunuam, each one containing a soldier who will parachute down to the camp. The passenger in one of the planes is Colonel Mornay.
Meanwhile, as Della has predicted, all the girls get sick from eating too much fish, and they assume that Della has warned them because she knew that it was poisoned, and rather more irrationally, that Della helped the Japs to poison it. When the soldiers land the girls immediately tell them that Della has poisoned them. Della tells her father that it isn't true, and that the girls have only been overeating. Colonel Mornay tells the girls that not only is his daughter not a traitor but she has been working for the British all along, fooling the Japs from the very start. The girls have the good grace to apologise. Eventually Della is awarded the George Cross. The girls then give three cheers for Della, the heroine of St. Monica's.
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Thank you, Phoenix. So Della's father knew of her secret operation all along?
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Query about Detestable Della: someone on another site commented that they were sure it first appeared in 1966, but didn't have any issue numbers. Is this correct? Did Della first appear in 1966 or somewhere in the 1960s and was reprinted in 1978, or was the story's 1978 publication its first appearance?
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Yes. The first appearance of Detestable Della was in Bunty 458 (Oct. 22 1966) - 472 (Jan. 28 1967).Tammyfan wrote:Did Della first appear in 1966?
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Thank you, Phoenix!