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Loved Misty, I think it only ran for a couple of years though. Favourite part of Christmas was the Misty annual which continued after the comic stopped.
Stories I remember were
The girl with the 🌙 on her face.
The teacher who came back from the dead and had pupils dressing in Victorian clothes, the jist off the story was that she drowned along with her pupils in a boating accident.
Something about a possessed tree in the garden
I kept on getting the annuals too, after Misty got folded into Tammy (and the only trace of Misty left after a few months in Tammy was a comedy thing about a witch called Miss T, boo).
The story about the girl with the moon mark was ‘Moonchild’. A PP suggested that Rosemary, the protagonist,had dark hair in a bob, but she didn’t. She had long blonde hair then later cut it to a blonde bob just before her birthday party was wrecked by the awful Norma (who was a frightening tough girl, brilliantly drawn).
The teacher who made the modern day pupils wear Victorian stuff was trying to recreate a boating accident from the late 1800s in which a load of schoolgirls drowned, hoping for a better outcome. One of the schoolgirls cunningly pretended to fall under her influence and asked for Victorian clothes (‘something more comely and decent’)
The one about the tree was about leaves falling from the tree being lucky for the girl who lived there. Her dad had lost his job and started drinking and they had moved to a not very nice house. The tree was the only thing in the garden. She would run home in the hope of a leaf getting stuck on her hair.