A family keep farm at Furzebrook with some odd animals - notably brave Scottie dog Duncan, gluttonous donkey Daisy and mild-tempered lion Desmond, who work together to keep everyone safe and happy.
Kay Douglas wants to be an instructress at the famous Ravensdale Adventure School in the Lake District, and sneaks in to learn about as many outdoor activities as possible to help her case.
Reprinted as "School for Sports" between 7 July 1973 and 15 June 1974.
After her father dies, June Hurst helps her mother run the family's riding stable in Framwell, with beloved horse Blaze and foal Cobweb. However, greedy local businessman Sam Fletcher wants to build a road through the stables, bullying local surveyor Cyril Moss into helping him.
Julie Carson travels through the Amazon rainforest with her father Stanley and brother Bob, searching for signs of a lost expedition which disappeared investigating the Angry Mountain ten years before. Journeying there they find themselves kidnapped by a lost, technologically advanced race called the White Ghosts.
Holidaying with her Uncle Ben on his boat in the South Seas, Ann finds herself caught up in the affairs of an island tribe after their chief's son Taibu stows away on board.
Annie is the daughter of Colonel Cleaver and lives on base with his unit, the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Loamshires. However, her antics often cause absolute chaos for the men - to the excitement of most, but much to the irritation of Sergeant Vole.
After a plane crash in the Pyrenees, a group of potholers led by the valiant Babette Marcel make their way towards the survivors to provide medical aid.
In order to get the financial backing the Highfield Ballet Academy needs to survive, the company accept businessman's daughter Lois, leaving Babs Markham in charge of training the hopeless girl to become a dancer.
Bessie Bunter is an oversized, gluttonous and none-too-smart pupil boarding at Cliff House School.
One page humour strip. The character of Bessie (sister of Billy Bunter) was previously in the original School Friend, and was revived in the comic version. Continued in Tammy.
Betty Blake is left with permanent leg damage by a car crash which kills her parents, and finds no comfort from her new guardian, miserable Aunt Gladys. However, she finds she can ride a bicycle expertly, which greatly boosts her happiness, and she persuades a local greengrocer to give her a chance to work as his delivery rider.
Ellie Grant's father dreams of upgrading his dispensary on a coral island where they live into a full hospital. After one of their patients tells Ellie of a legend of a volcanic island that produced black pearls, a treasure that would easily fund their hopes, Ellie and her pet monkey Koko set off to find them.
Roberta Townley - known to her friends as 'Bobs' - dreams of becoming a vet. She wins the post of assistant to Mr. Mason at Bowmans [sic] Green veterinary surgery, and starts putting her skills into helping the locals and their animals.
An unrepealed bylaw grants whoever lives at the site of the Old Beadle's house has a claim to ownership of all of Beadle Street. Current resident Liz Green discovers the archaic ruling and decides to claim her rights. She gets them, but soon finds being in charge of a street isn't all she thought it would be.
Brought up by their Aunt Agnes in Stepney, orphans Wendy, Tom and Rosabelle Kidd receive a letter offering them the chance to live with their Uncle Roger on a Pacific island. However, a storm forces their plane to ditch and the trio find themselves cast away on a different - and deserted - island.
Cherry Bryant looks after siblings Sue and Tim - as well as Boxer the dog - while her mother works at a cigarette factory, keeping them all safe despite the quartet always getting into scrapes.
Shy but kind boarding school pupil Samantha Clayton is subject to a bullying campaign led by fifth-former Sybil Jay, who repeatedly frames her as a coward.
Orphaned Sue Gibson lives a simple but happy life on a farm working with an old lady until her aunt and uncle return from abroad, and is less than happy. Despite the kindness of her lovely cousin Norma, Sue becomes increasingly bitter as she believes her new guardians are mocking her homely looks.
Two families compete to find treasure on an Italian island - but children Nina Gasperi and Carlo Albanesi find they have common ground, and want to avoid the bitter competition.
An anthology story featuring girls in situations similar to those readers might find themselves in - having a crush on teacher, being bad tempered, feeling left out - and showing a resolution.
Betty Blake's Uncle Oliver inherits Crusaders' Castle on a small island off the coast of Cornwall, where she lives with her siblings Tim, Tom and Jessica. However, the family ends up in debt to the island owner My. Sistrom, who tries to use it to drive the family away.
Christine 'Chrissie' Cooper is a student at St. Martha's School for Girls, where her extreme shyness causes her to regularly burst into tears when the centre of attention. She is frequently bullied as a result, with only kindly Brenda Thompson as a friend. One day, Chrissie buys a ring in an antique shop and suddenly finds herself transformed into a more confident person, and begins standing up for herself.
New at school together and both orphans, Diana and Cara become friends. Cara has a strange ring and an unusual tattoo on the sole of her foot, and Diana becomes curious about her odd behaviour and the gaps in her memory.
Trudy Lomax is secretary to Professor Simpson on an expedition to search for a Romangalley in the South Seas, and soon becomes fascinated with the strange native boy Daron.
Dinah Sherwood runs a beauty salon in the Hotel Italia on the Sardinian Coast, and faces the biggest challenge of her career when the snooty Chesney family arrives for a function. She finds the only kind member - a young plain girl called Jackie - needs her help the most.
Emma Lorne deals with the burden of thinking she has to live up to her famous parents - an actor and an artist - and the pressure the expectations of others bring to her school life.
Jilly Lewis arrives in Venice to stay with her penfriend Fiametta de Paravani, only to find the girl's grandfather is being threatened by local hoods. Jilly and Fiametta set about thwarting the thugs.
After their plane crashes in the South American jungle, air hostess Linda Martin is left looking after children Peter and Jane Wesley as they try to make their way back to civilisation.
Raised in Tibet, Lan Trafford learns the secrets of the Yogis, including the power of levitation. She transfers to the famous Harfield House School in England, and soon puts her talents to thwarting the schemes of Jacob Yarwood, who wants to force the school to close. Lan is helped by her friend Frankie - though jealous senior Sybil Bromley is determined to expose Lan's secrets.
Jill Williams is among a group of refugees fleeing the advancing Japanese army in Burma. She has an important package she must deliver to her father in Rangoon, with the group travelling via the Burma Belle - an aging steam locomotive driven by family friend Ned Parry.
Living with her cold guardian Uncle Matt in Wyoming, Mandy Morgan finds a weak orphaned foal she names Lonesome and secretly tries to nurse him back to health.
Zara, an emotionless scout from the planet Zenith, uses her mind-controlling ring to infiltrate Earth, masquerading as a schoolgirl as a precursor to invasion. Only classmate Tessa Martin seems aware of Zara's unusual behaviour, and tries to convince her sceptical peers of the threat.
After Glenda Marsh gets a blow to the head she exhibits a split personality, switching between kind and spiteful. Her best friend Jane Leslie tries to negotiate her violent mood swings.
Working for Time-Travel Holidays, Glory Knight is a pilot ferrying holidaymakers into Earth's past. However the jaunts usually end up even more exciting than expected.
Go-It Alone Gail
Published: 25 November 1972 to 10 February 1973[1]
Gail Hegan is the daughter of a police inspector, and things become awkward when her father arrests her best friend Terry Payne's dad. However the pair become convinced he has the wrong man and work with their friend Tina Kettle to find the real crooks.
Young Emma Knight travels the world on her father John's yacht Ocean Queen, learning martial arts and trying to stop her friend Princess Asha of Fezra being forced into an unwanted arranged marriage with a sheik.
Based on the character from the television series The Avengers; the adult version of Emma was appearing with John Steed in a licensed strip in rival publisher Polystyle Publications' TV Comic at the same time "The Growing Up of Emma Peel" was running in June.[7][8]
Council schoolgirl Greta Porter wins a scholarship to the exclusive Firdale College for Young Ladies, but soon finds her snobby classmates less than welcoming. Unfortunately for them, Greta has plenty of experience standing up for herself.
Not to be confused with the Eagle story of the same name.
Gymnast Jinty
Published: 13 September 1969 to 16 September 1972[1]
Acrobatic Jinty Lewis begins work as a junior sports mistress at Sandbury School, where her dexterity and agility - not to mention her kind, sunny personality - are a fast hit.
Harriet Faye leaves school with no family, but is left the dilapidated Shudder Mill on the coast of Essex. The locals, including a brash young boy called Mark, warn her the mill house is haunted, but with nowhere else to go Harriet has to find out for herself.
Henrietta Harker desperately wants to own a horse but her biggest obstacle is that she lives in the city centre. Nevertheless, she wins a 2-year old thoroughbred called Billy Bravo in a competition and has to work out how to look after him - especially as council regulations forbid it.
In 1750s England, Amy Lyndon's father is accused of being a notorious highwayman and he is forced to go on the run. Amy soon finds their home at the Grange attracting the attention of all sorts of unsavoury characters.
After their mother dies, Starr Goodwin devotes herself to looking after her blind brother Timmy. The pair try to keep each other's spirits up after their fisherman father is reported lost at sea off the Faroes.
Marion Lockwood's aunt and uncle are unsure of letting her become a nurse until Tony Anson, a specialist at Leycross Hospital, persuades them to let her. However, Marion is soon on the wrong side of jealous fellow nurse Lana Symes, who attempts to get her in trouble with matron Sister Trevelan.
Text story; no relation to the picture strip story of the same name from Girls' Crystal.
After Amy Lester is hospitalised and her mother killed in a car accident, Amy's 14-year old best friend Ruth Jackson - blaming herself for the crash - vows to look after her. However, things are complicated when a change of jobs looks set to force the Jacksons to emigrate to New Zealand.
Ever since their mother died, Lynn Roberts has looked after her younger sister Jill. However, their life gets even harder as Jill's promising athletics career is derailed when she starts to lose her sense of sight.
Despite growing up at Tolliver Orphanage, Kathy Summers gets into the exclusive Marvin Grange private school and tries hard to fit in with her different surroundings.
Jill Baker is delighted when her tutor Madame Carlotta assigns her as understudy to the prima ballerina Krassova. However, when an accident takes the star out of the performance Jill's friends turn on her, believing she caused it to advance her own career.
The Lonely Ones
Published: 20 November 1971 to 5 February 1972?[1]
An outcast at school due to her stutter and shyness, Kate Shaw finds a kindred soul in the shape of an abandoned Gypsy horse called Nelson. The pair look after each other as Kate tries to keep Nelson secret from her disapproving, violent parents.
As her widowed mother works hard to put food on the table, Lucinda Ursula Cynthia Kate Yolanda Smith - or just Lucky for short - keeps the house in order. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of her 11th year, she wishes her doll comes to life - and it does.
Mady wants to be a reporter, and starts working in the offices of the local Millchester Messenger, but soon finds herself getting caught up in a story about pop singer Johnnie Starr.
Later modified and reprinted as "Sandy's Scoops" from 17 January to 23 May 1970.
Raised on the Pacific island of Levu, Mara is an incredible swimmer and a friend of marine life. She is spotted by the greedy American entrepreneur Van Doren, who plans to turn Mara into a water park act, who lures her to Honolulu in an attempt to capture her, but reckons without her loyal dolphin friend Dolphie, who follows her to help.
Orphaned Mimi LaRue hates life with her indifferent aunt and uncle, as well as her cruel cousin Marianne, who don't even let her practice her beloved violin. Instead she begins finding more support from the kindly working-class Perkins family.
Mimosa May Michigan - Mimi for short - is a schoolgirl from St. Ethelfreda's School, can mesmerise anyone. However, she has absolutely no control over when she uses her powers, or who she uses them on.
Before he died, Jacey North's father - a Hussars colonel - trained Jacey North to fight, ride and shoot. Now she seeks thrills around the world with her reluctant valet Albert, earning the nickname 'Miss Adventure'.
After her mother dies, Georgie Bell faces life alone with her beloved dog Moses. However, her mother's bullying cousin Jim Peters decides to move himself in with the pair, and begins treating Georgie like a servant before selling off their cottage and moving them away, trying to leave Moses behind.
16-year old Lesley Fraser is inexplicably cut off from her family by her father, who dies soon afterwards. Stunned by the whole affair and given cryptic instructions to take a letter to relatives in Brocharbour, Lesley begins to find out she and her family have something mysterious in their history.
Millionaire heiress Kim Cassidy keeps her friendship with street artist Leo Devene secret after tutor Miss Vellors convinces her father the boy is no good. However, it soon becomes clear Miss Vellors may not have Kim's best interests at heart.
Schoolgirl Wendy Lee relates stories about her friend Sara Topper.
Continued from School Friend. Later modified and reprinted as "My Friend Kate" between 29 July 1972 to 13 January 1973.
My Name is Nobody
Published: 20 November 1971 to 16 September 1972[1]
When her parents are killed in the Blitz, London teenager Margie Mills finds some happiness caring for a young girl left with amnesia, who she names Nobody. However, the authorities plan to send them to separate homes, causing Maggie and Nobody to go on the run.
Debbie Yates and Sue Baker holiday with Debbie's Uncle Sam on the coast of East Yorkshire and go treasure hunting - and promptly stumble across a smuggling operation on nearby Maundy Isle.
In 1754, Anne Bellew arrives to stay with her uncle at Beacon Heights, and soon begins he might be involved in piracy. Given that he is called Cap'n Jonas Darke, Anne may well be onto something.
Sisters Polly and Bee Gillray help their father run a boarding kennel on the small Merlin Island. However a crime kingpin is hiding out on the island and turns his attention to the Gillrays after Bee unwittingly takes his picture at a carnival.
Victorian orphan Nell tries to find somewhere she can call home. An opportunity presents itself in a travelling show ran by a kindly woman called Ma, but greedy people seem determined to spoil it for her.
Beth Valiant is hired as nursemaid to the children of the president of Santa Rica. Her work is soon complicated when a revolution strikes the country, forcing Beth and the two boys on the run as she tries to keep her charges safe.
Later modified and reprinted as the adventures of Lisa Daniels in "Nurse Daring" between 3 May 1969 and 14 February 1970.
Enthusiastic novice fairy Tinker is sent to Earth to hone her skills, and naively grants wishes for the people she encounters - though often with unintended consequences.
Daughter of an absent-minded archaeologist living off the Cornish coast, Mary Moore is enrolled at the Castamere Boarding School in Somerset. She is accompanied by her mischievous pet otter Olly, who immediately causes mayhem.
Left orphaned following a flood, Nella Tambroni makes her way southern Italy to her uncle's distant home in the North by foot, and accompanied by her loyal donkey Pasqualino.
Overland Adventure
Published: 14 September 1963 to 18 January 1964[1]
After finding themselves orphaned, the four Cade siblings - Jane, Gerry, Della and Peter - set off in their old family car Belinda, driving overland to their uncle's home in Australia.
Modified and reprinted at "The Travelling Trents", with the surnames changed, between 10 June and 16 September 1972.
When new Banchester Comprehensive teacher Miss Rabbitt is targeted by a group of bullies headed by Johnny Bedford, spiky Patsy Dean and her best friend Muna form a gang of their own to stop him.
Penny Plain of Dock Lane
Published: 23 September 1972 to 3 February 1973[1]
Penny Woolley is known as Penny Plain for both her looks and her blunt speech, but many of her neighbours from Dock Lane find that her straightforward approach and kind nature gets things done.
Peta Williams finds an old farthing, and when she spins it an elf appears, promising to do her biding. However, the mischievous creature often makes things a lot more complicated for all concerned.
Penny Baxter is in charge of pony treks at the Phoenix Hotel, but the arrival of the owner's prim daughter Gail Morris on thoroughbred mare Starlight upsets the applecart. When Gail complains that Penny's piebald Pancho is being violent towards Starlight, Penny flees on her beloved horse.
Despite being from an impoverished family, Polly Gray is fiercely proud and independent - attributes she doesn't lose when her mother takes a job at the picturesque and exclusive boarding school Waldersley House, where she must contend with the jibes on the posh, privileged pupils.
Count Radek hopes to depose Princess Gina of Rosania and install himself on the throne, but she escapes. Making friends with a peasant girl called Hansi and aided by the Masked Black Shadow, Gina sets about exposing Radek's treachery.
15-year old Birmingham schoolgirl Paula Hope tries to look after her ailing mother, with her father being preoccupied by his work. Her mother dies of tuberculosis, and on her deathbed makes Paula promise to look after her father.
Left in charge of Four Winds Ranch in Oklahoma after her father's premature death, Shiree Hudson stands firm against those who would try to drive her off.
Published: 20 November 1971 to 5 February 1972?[1]
Pat Sellars wants to be an actress but makes a promise to train as a nurse first. Initially unenthusiastic and uncommitted as she fits nursing around play rehearsals, Pat gradually becomes more interested in helping her patients.
Bored of the life of a pampered rich girl, Sandie McShane slips away from her wealthy parents' home on the Caribbean island of Barmudos to live in a waterside shack. Sandie soon makes friends with a group of less privileged children - and then leads them in an assault on the sensibilities of Barmudos high society.
Hilda Barton's dog Rascal is left a diamond mine by her grandfather and becomes the wealthiest mutt in the world - and thus targeted by a string of kidnappers and extortionists.
Riding to Adventure
Published: 11 November 1961 to 17 February 1962[1]
June Hurst and her beloved mare Blaze always seem to end up in trouble.
Mary Slade wants to be a police officer when she is older, like her late father. In the meantime she begins a campaign fighting for the rights of local kids against harsh businessman Albert Sheriff. Using the pseudonym Robina Hood, she soon becomes a local hero, aided by local junior reporter Rick Danvers.
Laura is a pupil at Markham Grange, which is widely believed to be haunted. She sees the ghost herself, and finds the spirit to be a Victorian maid called Becky Jones, falsely accused of stealing a diamond necklace. Laura vows to help prove her innocence so her spirit can rest.
After her home company of Zaania falls to a coup while she is away, Lissa Anders volunteers to go undercover as Agent 13 and get a crucial message to the resistance movement.
Travelling to the Alps to take part in a winter sports competition, Jean Darby finds her task complicated when local thugs attempt to kill her cousin Michael Brown. Jean tries to unravel the mystery while competing.
Schoolgirl Sue is befriended by Serena, a visitor from the planet Arctus. Serena is looking for the parts of an ancient crystal needed to save Arctus from destruction, and Sue joins her in the quest to find them.
A car crash wipes schoolgirl Sally Shaw's memory, and her friend Ann tries to restore it. However, not all of the things Sally starts to remember are easily explained.
13-year old Louise Gale lives with her parents on the small island of Farron off the northwest coast of Britain, where she enjoys swimming and hopes to one day compete. However, she is torn when her parents decide they will have to return to the mainland to find better-paying jobs.
Later reprinted between 20 January and 31 March 1973.
Spanish princess Juanita is sent to Whitehaven School in England, but her spoilt behaviour and royal airs soon see her struggle to fit in, much to the annoyance of pupils Ann and Lee, who are put in charge of helping her settle in.
Shaken by the death of her mother, Ann refuses to swim. However, her guardian Mr. Murdock wants to promote a swimming champion and begins playing her off against school champion Shelagh to make it happen.
Hetty Brandon is the put-upon maid to Sir Roger of Morvern House. However her life is changed when Sir Roger takes possession of a strange silver-haired girl named Silva who has a remarkable ability to control horses. Silva quickly escapes on Sir Roger's prize horse Gambler and hides out on the moors, inspiring Hetty to join her.
Aspiring ice skater Anita Lang is delighted when she makes friends with Penny Torring, a crippled girl new to her school, and things get even better when she finds Penny's father owns an ice rink. However, she finds out how much Penny wants to skate as well and vows to help her, against Mr. Torring's wishes.
Jinny Grey has a beautiful singing voice but is forbidden to use it by her father. However, a new music teacher arrives at the school called Miss Wood begins to encourage her to do so, believing Jinny to simply be shy.
As their parents died when they were young, sisters Jill and Kathy Ward live together and are very close. However, the younger Kathy becomes worried and jealous when Jill becomes engaged to a young man called Mike.
Helen Tarrant and Sal Petrie are the daughters of scientist Professor Tarrant and his assistant Mr. Petrie, and accompany their fathers on a geological expedition to Scotland. Left to their own devices while their fathers work, the mismatched pair soon find themselves at odds with the local unfriendly MacGrimm clan.
Pat Simmons and her special friend Jean Blake are making their way back across the moors to Cranmere School when they see a strange creature at an abandoned house, and become determined to get to the bottom of it.
Hoping to get away from a joyless life with her unsupportive, bullying uncle and aunt on a farm, Julie Trent practices in secret in the hope of becoming an athlete.
Penny Andrews has to host her cousin Lorna after the latter's mother dies in prison. However, Lorna's rude and violent behaviour soon threatens to turn them both into social outcasts.
Susan Webster lands a job in the circus thanks to her friend, tightrope walker Julie Byrd. However, soon after she starts at the circus it looks like she is causing trouble.
Geraldine 'Dina' Evans arrives in Shanghai to meet with her parents after three years in boarding school, and does her best to adapt to Chinese customs. Shortly after she arrives at her parents' mission school they are called away to help plague victims in a nearby village, leaving Dina in charge. The school is attacked by bandits, and she is forced to evacuate the pupils on a hazardous down-river raft journey to the safety of Shanghai.
Sylvie Miller puts her promising gymnastics career on hold to care for her gran in a village in northern England, and will seemingly miss out on a place at a prestigious school in order to look after her frail relative.
Unable to train as a nurse due to her family, Sue Midgeley instead takes a job as a tea-girl in a hospital while studying nursing in her spare time. Her posh cousin Elizabeth is a nurse at the same hospital, requiring Sue to hide her identity, but she finds a friend in the supportive Gloria.
Living with her foster-mother at a small shack in Boomer on the north Australian coast, where they make a humble living collecting coral from the Great Barrier Reef. She dreams of becoming a world famous tennis player, but training is not easy in the area.
Later reprinted as "Tennis Star Toni" from 27 May to 5 August 1967.
An implausible series of events see a mystical jewel from a mystical turban included in the components of a transistor radio purchased by schoolgirl Tilly Trainer. Naturally whenever the device plays music it therefore has a strange influence over people.
After her aunt dies, Helen May sets out to look for her long-lost identical twin sister Linda, who had to be adopted by others when their parents died. She finds that Linda has led a tough life, and is bitter at being left behind. Nevertheless, Helen does her best to reach out to her embittered twin.
Science fiction fan Sally Prentice's dream comes true when she is befriended by Vanessa, a powerful and friendly Venusian capable of casting magic spells, who soon joins her at school.
Gwenny Parry's voice makes her known as 'The Voice of the Valley' in the colliery town of Glyndarron, where she also cares for her blind brother Dai. On a trip to Cardiff decides to enter a singing competition to earn the money to buy a guide dog for Dai.
Later modified and reprinted as "The Lark of Llandarth" between 8 January and 8 April 1972.
After her mother dies, Pam Farleigh is forced to move to London. She is able to keep her beloved horse Dr. Syntax, but only if the equine can earn its way in show-jumping competitions. With help from new friend Kay Simpson, Pam has Dr. Syntax brought to London so she can train with amiable Battersea instructor Mr. Roberts.
Celia Vane's father Sir Jeremy Vane leaves home to fight for the Royalists in the English Civil War, and lives alone at Vane Manor - until Roundheads arrive searching for him.
Promising Australian water skier Judy Dean finds her promising career detailed when her parents hit marital trouble, plunging her into depression as they argue. However, her friend Tony has an idea - staging Judy's kidnapping to bring her parents back together.
Jean Ross lives on the estate of Lord Carnach, where her father works as a gamekeeper. One day she becomes lost in a mist and meets a strange gypsy girl who seems to be able to communicate with animals.
Raised in a deep jungle in central Africa, the wise and brave Zana is able to command animals to do her biding - and soon becomes acclaimed as the Queen of the Jungle.
