Misty or Bunty?

[MadeleineMummy]

I used to love Misty when I was young. It had a massive influence on me at 10. All the other girls in my village read Bunty which was dire. I even became a goth and dyed my blond hair red and then black when I was 18 because of Misty as well as the ‘Sisters of Mercy’ and ‘The Fields of the Nephilim’.

Whatever happened to the comic?

I found a box of them in my mother’s loft when I was clearing it out and despite thinking I had read it for years, it looks like I only seemed to have a year’s worth of comics. Did anyone else read Misty and remember it fondly?

Mary Simpson (Simpy), Cotter (Cotty), Radleigh (Raddy)…can’t remember the last one!

@MadeleineMummy

Try this link! https://www.mistycomic.co.uk/Welcome.html

Fieldy!

Love this thread! I started with Twinkle (the one with the cut out dolls), then Bunty and moved on to Mandy and Judy.

Mizz and Jackie were more grown up (my mum hated Jackie with a passion…which made me love it more!). Then the inevitable Just Seventeen, with a Blue Jeans annual every year too. Also had Fast Forward and thought I was very ‘adult’ having a music magazine!

I fondly remember buying 70s Jackie annuals from charity shops in the late 80s, then wondering why my attempts at make up looked slightly odd!

I remember a Mandy Story - I think it was in a comic book - where a girl got trapped in a jigsaw, on putting in the last piece. The jigsaw was a picture of a house, now derelict, and there were three other girls in there who had been trapped over the last 70 years or so.

The girls were released when her parents restored the derelict house to its former glory; the jigsaw had been holding them hostage until someone did this. However two of the girls chose to go back in as they'd been there so long all their loved-ones were dead by that time!

God I loved my comics. My gateway drug was Twinkle but soon progressed to Bunty & Mandy with a side dabble into Misty.

I was obsessed with the 'Daughter of the Sun' story of a young pre-history priestess who gets transported through time (via Stonehenge) to London circa 1980. And, the girls from a ballet school who get kidnapped and taken to Russia where they're made to dance for a crippled young princess. Or the girl who has to work as an office cleaner to support her younger siblings but then gets scouted as a model, it was called something like 'English Rose'?

Misty was full of girls getting forever trapped inside snow globes or dragged into evil postboxes. Possessed garden gnomes featured heavily and I'm still wary of them to this day.

My very first copy of Blue Jeans had a day-glo pink lip balm sellotaped to the cover which was the height of sophistication. The centre fold poster was Mark Hamil dressed as Luke Skywalker which was immediately blu tacked to my bedroom wall.

Happy times!

My mum never allowed us to get girls' magazines like these. One of dsis's friends got Jackie regularly, and she'd let us have her old copies, but occasionally there would be an issue or two missing, which sometimes meant we didn't get to read the end of a story that was being serialised.

My mum had some pretty snobby opinions about reading matter. We weren't allowed to read Enid Blyton stories either, because she didn't think they were well written. It baffles me, as a parent.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius my grandmother (my mum's mum) apparently was a bit of a snob and did not approve of Enid Blyton either. But my mum was allowed to read Bunty (and her cousins Judy - they would swap).
Thankfully my mum had no problems with Enid so I got to read all the school stories.

I clicked on this thinking it was going to be a baby name choice!

I used to love Bunty

I didn't realise Misty was gothic, but it explains a LOT.

I found this in a church jumble sale when I was 12 (so '91?) and POUNCED on it - loved it but I was born in '78, so that explains why I never saw the comic.

mistycomic.co.uk/Annual_1979.html

I got Twinkle every week, of course, progressed to Bunty, Mandy and Judy, with occasional inroads from things like the one-off Acorn Green with the free RECORD on the front for it's launch - and only - issue, and probably anything My Little Pony.

Later I moved on to Horse and Pony, Jackie, and with fierce opposition from my mother, Just Seventeen (I was not 17).

No one over the age of 16 read J17 😁

I read some of the Malory Towers books as a grown up, and really enjoyed them - I can’t see what mum was being so judgemental about! And I loved the TV adaptation.

I do love school stories - I have all the Chalet School series (and still reread them from time to time), and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy the Harry Potter books.

I do love school stories - I have all the Chalet School series (and still reread them from time to time), and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy the Harry Potter books.

Me too. I'm on Jennings at the moment.

I started on the Five Find Outers, Malory Towers then Stephen King, James Herbert and Clive Barker. I think the first non-genre novel I read was ‘The Cement Garden’.

I don't remember Misty at all but my friend passed on her Bunty comic to me. I loved the cut out doll and her clothes!

@Deathraystare I found a 70s Bunty Annual in a charity shop the other day.
The cut out clothes had been beautifully coloured in - but never cut out.
Apparently the reason why there's less secondhand girls comics around compared to the boys ones is because we all cut out the dress up dolls, cut out recipes and craft ideas and stuck them in scrapbooks and of course - all the pop posters. On to our walls they went.
By the time your copy had been passed on to your best mate, then her cousin and then the girl next door the whole thing would fall apart 😂🙁

I used to have a subscription to Bunty, and my DGM used to pick me up old annuals of all the girls’ comics when she saw them. Wish I’d kept them. There was definitely a story in one about some bullies who got trapped forever in a wall painting/mural.

Don’t remember misty at all. Was a bunty fan though. Also Jinty, Mandy and tammy. Tammy was my favourite. Anyone remember Bella at the bar.

@MSLRT there a book published of Bella stories.
(It says "Book One" but they never did a second one 🙁)

As well as the Bella book ^ there is also these two.
All 3 are published by the publisher Rebellion.
I think there's a Misty book too.

I used to get Bunty & Judy every week. I liked Bunty best and I used to cut out all of the dolls on the back cover and saved them in a biscuit tin of all things.
Then I moved on to Jackie, then Petticoat.

Petticoat was brilliant - quite grown up. I don't think my mum realised how grown up it was! I seem to remember Jilly Cooper's early books (Prudence, Octavia etc) were serialised in Petticoat

Twinkle, Bunty and Jackie then Just 17, fought over with my sister. I still have some articles and knitting patterns in my collection AND a carefully knitted 1980s jumper.

If that's the evil gnomes story i am thinking of, the family ends up being possessed by the gnomes and turning into gnomes themselves. The story ends with a new family moving to the house and the red glowing eyes of the 'new' gnomes. It terrified me. Unlikely to be Jackie as that was aimed at older girls who were into boys. Maybe Mandy or Jinty..?

I thought these were suggestions for baby names...thank the lord! 😆😆