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Boyfriend from Blupo
Boyfriend from Blupo (Bunty) 8 parts: 13/5/95-1/7/95 Writer/artist: unknown Lee is desperate for a boyfriend. Her wish is granted when hunky alien Morgan crashes his spaceship near her house and agrees...
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Winner Loses All!
Winner Loses All! (Misty) 17 parts, 4/8/79-24/11/79 Writer: unknown Artist: Mario Capaldi? This is a comic-strip aimed at pre-teen girls about selling your soul to the Devil. Yes, it could only be from...
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Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s Child (Tammy) 11 parts, 20/1/79 – 31/3/79 Writer/artist: unknown It wasn’t just Misty that had nasty things happening to nice people in the late Seventies, but elsewhere things were much...
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Slave of the Mirror
Slave of the Mirror (Jinty) 20 parts, 9/11/74- 12/4/75 (Issues 27-46) – you may spot that these figures don’t add up. That’s because there was a three-issue break due to ‘Production Troubles’ and so no...
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The Haunting of Uncle Gideon
Thought that I really ought to do a photostory at some point. Unfortunately due to some comic-box-access issues, this seemed unlikely to happen in the near future. But a cunning solution presented...
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Slaves of the Candle
Slaves of the Candle (Jinty and Lindy) Twelve parts 8/11/75-24/1/76 My cunning plan was (and still is) to try to do at least one of all the standard girls’ comic genres near the beginning of this blog....
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Eek! It’s about me – not comics.
(I’m going to move the post that was here over to my Cat Flap blog. Probably. Feeling a bit awkward about it now – haven’t got used to this soul-bearing stuff yet! Blupoblog’ll just be for the comics,...
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New blog
Due to overwhelming public demand (well, one or two people said ‘go on, then’) I’ve started a new ME blog at: http://thecatflap.wordpress.com Exciting or very, very boring? Only you can decide.
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Land of No Tears
Jinty 5th Nov 1977 – 11th Feb 1978. Reprinted Jinty and Penny 1980/1. “Disabled Cassy Shaw was used to getting her way by playing on people’s sympathy. But she was in for the biggest shock of her life...
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Comics in the Guardian
When you write a blog on girls’ comics and then get asked to write an article on girls’ comics for the Guardian, it might seem a good idea to mention the article on your blog. But I didn’t. D’oh! So...
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Mirror, Mirror
There are a lot of mirrors in girls’ comics. Lots and lots of them. A new mirror-related story seemed to pop up every few months back in the 1970s and 1980s. Slave of the Mirror – Jinty 7/12/74 The...
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