Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Phoenix wrote:Merely out of interest, as I was replacing the issues of BUNTY in my 1966 pile, I noticed that there are two issues numbered 437, these being the ones dated May 28 and June 4. The anomaly was adjusted by omitting issue 441. Issue 440 (June 25 1966) was followed by 442 (July 2 1966).

Regarding the request from Tammyfan for brief synopses, I'm perfectly happy to write them but just not tonight.
That's fine, no rush for them.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Doesn't sound like the Sally story we mentioned earlier is the one Bunty Girl is after.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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I'm sorry if I'm sending you all on a wild-goose chase but I have a vivid memory of a comic strip illustration of a girl (not the main character) in a military-style uniform taking off a beret to reveal a shaven head, and that memory is more than half-a-century old! My Bunty reading days were from 1963 - 1967/8.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Bunty Girl wrote:I'm sorry if I'm sending you all on a wild-goose chase but I have a vivid memory of a comic strip illustration of a girl (not the main character) in a military-style uniform taking off a beret to reveal a shaven head, and that memory is more than half-a-century old! My Bunty reading days were from 1963 - 1967/8.
Maybe the character appeared in the war nurse story mentioned earlier?

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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So let me get this straight. In effect we are now being asked to find just one panel, in which a girl removes a beret, in a serial that appeared at some point between 1963 and 1968 in some story paper or other, that may have been BUNTY, but may not have been. In the light of this new information I will check War Nurse Vicky again but I'm not prepared to do more as my time is precious and the search has definitely begun to look like a wild-goose chase, the possibility of which Bunty Girl acknowledged earlier.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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No Phoenix, you are not looking for a single panel. I remember the same story that Tammyfan was looking for but that particular panel sticks in my mind. Thank you for your efforts anyway.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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The story being sought is not War Nurse Vicky. As I promised, I read every episode this morning. There were neither kidnaps nor shaven heads anywhere to be seen, although some camels did get stolen one night, so we can definitely rule it out.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Bunty Girl wrote:I have a vivid memory of a comic strip illustration of a girl (not the main character) in a military-style uniform taking off a beret to reveal a shaven head, and that memory is more than half-a-century old! My Bunty reading days were from 1963 - 1967/8.
Phoenix wrote:In effect we are now being asked to find just one panel, in which a girl removes a beret, in a serial that appeared at some point between 1963 and 1968
Bunty Girl wrote:No Phoenix, you are not looking for a single panel
Regardless of whether the story appeared in BUNTY or elsewhere, unless the girl removes the beret over two panels, Bunty Girl, she must surely remove it in just one. Finding the story in which she does so is, of course, a different matter. I have just looked again through my collection for the years in question, not looking for the story, but to find out exactly which issues are missing. See below:-

1963 - 261 : 262 : 289 : 291 : 296 : 301 : 311.
1964 - 315 : 316 : 327.
1965 - 405.
1966 - 451.
1967 - 514.
1968 - 533.
So, there is obviously no hiding place for a serial. If the story was printed in BUNTY, at any point in the above years, it has therefore to be in my collection. All that I can do now is check my issues for 1962 (3 issues missing :- 208 : 221 : and 222.) and 1969 (no issues missing). I'm not persuaded that it is worth the bother, but if you would feel more comfortable my doing so, I will. I might do it anyway just to satisfy my curiosity.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Phoenix wrote:So let me get this straight. In effect we are now being asked to find just one panel, in which a girl removes a beret, in a serial that appeared at some point between 1963 and 1968 in some story paper or other, that may have been BUNTY, but may not have been. In the light of this new information I will check War Nurse Vicky again but I'm not prepared to do more as my time is precious and the search has definitely begun to look like a wild-goose chase, the possibility of which Bunty Girl acknowledged earlier.
Perhaps this character appears in more than one panel.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Tammyfan wrote:Perhaps this character appears in more than one panel.
I have acknowledged that possibility in my previous post. She may even have appeared in twenty, but surely no more than two in which she is removing her beret, which would probably be the only possible opportunities for the reader to see her shaven head.

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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A character in Carry On Abroad, that I am currently watching on ITV3, has just said that he once knew a woman who had all her hair cut off. Coincidence or what? :lol:

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Phoenix wrote:
Bunty Girl wrote:I still stand by my earlier post that this picture story was in Bunty (the weekly comic not a picture story library). I have a feeling that the picture story Mona the Magician was running at the same time, about 1966 perhaps?
I'll toss this into the ring. There were two serials running at the same time in BUNTY in 1966, which just might be the ones Bunty Girl is recalling. Mona The Maharaja's Magician ran in 429 (April 2 1966) - 438 (June 11 1966), and War Nurse Vicky ran in 429 (April 2 1966) - 436 (May 21 1966). The latter was coloured red and pink in the centre pages.
The original Mona story, "Mona Maid of Magic", appeared in 1965. It ended 20 March, but I don't have the start date. Could the story in question have appeared in 1965?

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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I think I might have found the story. It could be Trudi Of Tyrollia, which runs in the centre pages coloured red and pink, in BUNTY 359 (November 28 1964) - 373 (March 6 1965). She is kidnapped in issue 365 (January 9 1965) by gipsies, who blamed her for their having been banished from Tyrollia. Mona - Maid Of Magic ran in 365 (January 9 1965) - 375 (March 20 1965).

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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Phoenix wrote:I think I might have found the story. It could be Trudi Of Tyrollia, which runs in the centre pages coloured red and pink, in BUNTY 359 (November 28 1964) - 373 (March 6 1965). She is kidnapped in issue 365 (January 9 1965) by gipsies, who blamed her for their having been banished from Tyrollia. Mona - Maid Of Magic ran in 365 (January 9 1965) - 375 (March 20 1965).
Thank you for the information. You haven't mentioned whether you found any shaven headed girls with berets in the story, but the information you have provided should still be useful for our Girls Comics of
Yesterday site.
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Re: Another appeal for help in finding a serial

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Tammyfan wrote:You haven't mentioned whether you found any shaven headed girls with berets in the story
No, there weren't any shaven heads as far as I could tell, but of course while I couldn't see under the berets, there was no lack of hair behind or to the sides of the berets, so I thought it reasonable to assume full heads of hair beneath them.

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