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List of Princess Tina stories
A list of stories in British weekly girls' comic Princess Tina, published between 1967 and 1974 by Fleetway Publications and IPC Magazines. Stories
Addie's Ad-ventures
Faced with the prospect of having to work at a sausage factory with her father, school leaver Adele Smith resolves to instead find a career herself in the newspaper advert columns. Unfortunately, the abbreviated descriptions often leave her misinterpreting what she's signing up for. Alona — The Wild OneDaughter of a governor in the West Indies, Alona Richards' daring and habit of taking on any challenge in front of her soon earns the girl the nickname "The Wild One". A gifted rider, sailor, swimmer and dancer, Alona never hesitates to help out the needy.
Anna at the Court of Siam
In 1849, Welsh girl Anna Crawford finishes at school in England and travels to the east, where her mother is getting remarried in Bombay. She is then invited to the court of the King of Siam.
Barbie - The Model GirlFed up with life as an underappreciated office girl, Barbie Brown decides to take up a modelling career. Supported by her mischievous little sister Skipper, she lands representation from agent Ken Ballantyne. Barbie's kind behaviour, quick wits, fashion sense and good looks soon launch her on a globetrotting career, courted by many of the world's most famous designers.
Brave Lady Mary
In 1859, Durham rector's daughter Mary Bird arrives in Persia to begin missionary work.
Call Me LuckyMerle is the daughter of world-famous film star Raquel Jordan ("Yes, the Raquel Jordan"). While her peers believe she is the luckiest girl in the world the reality of Merle's life as her mother's celebrity and work leaves her with less and less time for her daughter is quite different. Candy's No Lady!In the Old West, tomboy orphan Candy Smith is eager to help out on her Uncle Melia's farm in Roxburgh, Texas. However, her uncle wants to follow her late parents' wishes that she be raised as a refined lady, and after the local schoolmistress finally tires of Candy's disruptive behaviour, he sends her to a finishing school in Houston in the hope she can learn some manners and other ladylike graces. Careful - She Bites!Aged fourteen, Trisha Damone leads a quiet and reclusive life in a caravan near the village of Livington, following the death of her mother and her father's disappearance. Her lonely experience is brought to an end when social services order her to be take into council accommodation, but Trisha's unusual upbringing means she does not mix well with others. Catherine Arrogant
Catherine Peak is the most brilliant student in school, a genuine paragon with incredible intelligence and athletic skills unsurpassed by her peers, even in a top school. Unfortunately this has left her with an outsize ego, and her frustrated headmistress sends her to live with cousin Jenny and attend her school in order to learn some humility. Unfortunately for the long-suffering Jenny, Catherine's sense of superiority is well-earned and the girl frequently backs it up, coming out on top of any attempt to take her down a peg or two.
Chairman CherryFilling in for her mother as a cleaner at the offices of Hartlands Ltd, Cherry Chick saves the life of CEO Mr. Hartland when he collapses in his office. As a result, he hands her control of the company when he dies. Despite Cherry's lack of business experience her upbeat personality and fresh ideas solve a great number of crises and boost the company's profile - usually at the expense of stuffy board members Mr. Coote and Mr. Moddle, who frequently try to get her to act more like a traditional businessperson.
Clueless - The BlunderdogYoung girl Susie is under the impression her dog Clueless is a gifted super-hound. Beyond the mutt's ability to speak broken English it really isn't, though through a succession of misunderstandings and unlikely events Clueless invariably ends up solving whatever mystery is in front of him, reinforcing his oblivious owner's beliefs. Daddy Long-Legs
Dawn of the Islands
Orphaned at a young age, Dawn Page grows up with her grandfather Captain Joshua Page, also known as Cap'n Josh. Together they do trading runs in the South Seas on board Cap'n Josh's sailboat The Sprite, aided by Dawn's talking parrot Jimbo. As well as ferrying supplies, the trio also help out in conflicts between the island people and other merchants. Designed for...
After moving to London and staying in a hostel while starting her career, Briony Andrews' expert fashion designs land her work with fashion house Parkertex, and then takes her around the world and meeting all manner of unusual clients. Thankfully Briony's resourcefulness and skill sees her through even the most trying mishaps.
A Dog of Flanders
Dombey and Son
Doomed VillageDoctor Davies quits work at a government biochemistry research station after baulking at the nature of his work. In response, he finds many doors closed to him and faces accusations of being a security risk, and the only work he can find is as a GP in the remote Cornish village of Belruan. His daughter Lyn is initially deeply unhappy with their rural home, but a succession of strange incidents make her begin to think there is more to Belruan than meets the eye. The Egyptian Bracelet
Atonia Collins - Toni to her friends - is a prank-pulling tomboy, running around town causing chaos with her friend Sara and her cousin Mary. However, her life gets more complicated when her beloved teacher Miss Dawson returns from a year teaching abroad in Egypt - bringing back a strange bracelet with her. Emma
Emma Farren negotiates life on the streets of Victorian London, juggling the twin occupations of flower-seller and waif. Family DividedWith her parents separated, schoolgirl Angela Hardy spends alternating weekends with her parents. She strongly feels if they could just spend some time together their love can be rekindled, but finds them drifting further and further apart due to their busy jobs - her father as a reporter and her mother running a café, where she is regularly propositioned by a man called Larry. The Fashion Girl's New Family
Model Tracy Jones visits Chester to see her mother's friend Mrs. Newley, only to find she has been hospitalised with nervous trouble. She had left her elder daughter Maggie in charge; Tracy volunteers to help her look after younger sister Pandora - known as Panda - but soon finds balancing the mischievous girl with her fashion career is no easy task. Five Uncles for FionaWhen her father is injured in an industrial accident, Fiona Watkins' Midlands family are further impoverished. Her disconsolate father admits he has five brothers he has long lost contact with, and in an effort to get help for the family Fiona balances taking up a job as a maidservant to Lady Harrington-Hall of Melford with trying to trace her five uncles. Freedom IslandThe United Nations sets up a school for the children of its officials on the idyllic Caribbean island of Fortuna. British girl Janey Peach and her friends are among the students, and put their wits to foiling various schemes to take over the island or the school for their own ends.
The Girl Who Hated SchoolThe pupils of the unusual St. Myra's School - including Julie and Ann - are an adventurous lot and love the unique institution, which is located on a rocky island off the coast of Northumbria and gives plenty of scope for outdoors adventures and education. However, a new pupil - a rich girl who arrives by helicopter - is less enamoured with the rough-and-tumble of the place, and soon after she arrives a series of strange events happen, leading to Julie and Ann to work out the growing mystery. The Happy Days
Sue Day relates the madcap events that fill the life of the Day family - city-working Dad, apron-clad Mum, brother Sid, big sister and socially delicate Gloria, dog Rover and double whirlwinds of destruction The Twins, with occasional appearances from Sue's equally cheerful best friend Edie Potter and her brother Tommy.
Here Come the Space Girls
In 2501 space travel is commonplace, with passenger voyages on space liners a popular method of transport. On board the huge X-77, which runs from Sardinia to Venus, are a trio of new air hostesses - Sally Trotter, Kathy Darling and Frances 'Fran' Finch. The girls soon end up on the wrong side of Captain Pepper - particularly the accident-prone Fran - but soon prove their worth, helping with a variety of difficult passengers and other crises. Horrid Hannah
Nina Todd's perfect domestic life is turned upside-down when her father agrees to lodge his boss' daughter Hannah Brill. Despite Nina's high hopes that she will make friends with Hannah, the girl turns out to be a spoilt, ungrateful brat. Jackie and the Wild BoysJackie Jackson becomes the new singer for amateur pop band The Wild Boys (consisting of Danny on guitar, Tim on guitar and Chimp on guitar) and the group get into many adventures as they gig around the country in search of a big break, under the variable management of impresario Bob Biggles. Jane Bond - Secret AgentJane Bond isn't just the average American-born, Italian-educated globetrotting socialite, model and racing driver but in fact the top agent of international crimefighting organisation WorldPol, with her international jet-setting just a cover for the missions assigned to her by chief Colonel Merrill. Jeff
Born with pointy ears for some reason, schoolboy artist Jeff is nicknamed "the Demon King" by bullies at school and gets blamed when various things go wrong as others begin to suspect he has some sort of strange powers. However, a girl called Jill - bullied because of her freckles - realises he is really a kind, thoughtful soul and the pair set out to show the rest of the school there is more to them. Jeff later carves a successful career writing for teenage magazines.
Jinny Below StairsEast End orphan Jinny Blake hopes to earn her keep by taking on a job as a maid in the household of Sir George Ringstead, a kindly aristocrat. However, Jinny unfortunately and inadvertently makes an enemy of butler Dawes when her faithful dog Spottie bites him. Told to get rid of her pet, Jinny instead hides him in a disused stable - and soon finds there may be a darker side of Dawes beyond his bullying. King of the Castle
King Sam
Laura and the Legend of Hadley House
Laura King travels to the coast of Kent to live with her uncle, Captain Matthew Pringle, in Hadley House. She arrives to find him long absent while the household staff are evasive and secretive. Laura determines to find out exactly what has happened to her uncle. Life with TinaTina helps out at her father's business agency, getting sent to work in all manner of strange jobs.
Marie Curie
The life and times of pioneering scientist Marie Curie. Milly the Merry Mermaid
Young mermaid Milly helps out swimmers and marine wildlife in peril while occasionally breaking the fourth wall.
Moira, Slave Girl of RomeWhen her chieftain father is defeated during the invasion of Britain, Moira is taken into the household of Julius Caesar, along with the gigantic, loyal Thorkil. As Caesar is frequently away on campaigns, Moira effectively works for a Roman lady called Livia, who is fair - if occasionally short-tempered and spoilt. Moira makes fast friends with others in Rome, including the kindly artisans Erik and Jon. She harbours hope of escape, but frequently finds herself pulled into plots by various Roman nobles against her Caesar and her friends that Moira cannot allow to come to pass. My Chum Yum-YumBrenda Burns is the daughter of an immigrant businessman in Hong Kong. Among the staff at their huge house is Yum-Yum, a pint-size clod who speaks broken English. Despite her endless impulsive, crass, insulting mannerisms Yum-Yum's unflinching loyalty soon sees her become the rich white girl's comedy sidekick.
Nita Nobody
Growing up in an orphanage, Nita traces her mother - eventually finding she is the glamorous film star Felicity Dawn. She soon finds the transition from live as an orphan to the daughter of a celebrity isn't as easy as she had thought.
No Swimming Allowed!Sisters Fenny and Alison Philips return to Hillside Boarding School after the summer holidays with a determination to beat rivals Hill Grammar and clinch the Junior Swimming Trophy/ However, the machinations of new prefect Hester Smythe seemingly see their hopes dashed when the bitter, power-crazed girl talks headmistress Miss Fell into banning swimming at the school. Undaunted, the Philips girls are determined to train in secret. No Time for TriciaWhen her father lands a new job, Tricia Treen is forced to leave her friends in the city behind when the family move to the country. The pleasant Tricia is eager to fit in with the locals but her father's new job and their huge new house have gone to her mother's head, and the overbearing parent insists Tricia only make friends among "the best people". Her overbearing upwardly-mobile persona soon alienates most of the children in the village, and the hapless Tricia soon finds herself an outcast as a result. Paris Runaway
Talented artist Katy Cooper wins a cash prize for her work. Her father wants her to bank the money but her mother is more sympathetic to her dreams to study art abroad, and encourages Katy to put it towards a scholarship at a prestigious art college in Paris. However, soon after arriving in France a series of misfortunes see her left broke and unable to get home. Patty's World
Patty Lucas is 13 years old and must negotiate the usual adolescent hurdles of school, fashion and social interaction. Surrounding Patty are her mother, her police officer stepfather, her dramatic older sister Carol, her best friend Sharon and her perennial crush Johnny Vowden.
Penny in the Sun
On holiday in Majorca, Penny Jones helps an old man. To the surprise of the Jones family, the man turns out to be a hotelier and leaves his business to Penny when he passes some years later. She refuses her parents' suggestion that they sell the hotel, and instead sets off to Spain to run the business with her best friend Jill. Penny on Her OwnHaving finished school, Penny Ward lives on her own in modest circumstances, helping friends and pondering her next career move.
Peril in the Snow
Gwen Simmons' family moves from Bristol to Llanechan Valley in Wales, where her father is running a doctor's surgery. She is out riding her beloved pony Roberta to check on a remote patient when the pair fall and her mount is injured; caught in a sudden blizzard, Gwen must get herself and Roberta to safety before the weather overwhelms them. Problem PonyAspiring rider Hazel Green's family cannot afford her the pony she desires until a band of gipsies offers her a pony called Flame for a pittance. She eagerly accepts, and Flame is homed on the Greens' tenant farm. However, Flame soon turns out to have an odd quirk - he only allows himself to be ridden in the presence of a stray dog called Dodger. Her father believes Dodger will worry his sheep and forbids Hazel from having the dog around, leaving her to ride in secret while she tries to persuade her family that Dodger is harmless. Ross, Student NurseJanet Ross is a student nurse at Selwick Hospital, and is often bullied by her harridan superior Nurse Hicks. Despite this she keeps up a sunny disposition and helps her varied patients, with a particular nose for solving petty crimes. The Secret Garden
Sister to a Soccer StarKevin King is a supremely gifted footballer, and lands a contract with Camfield Athletic. However, his playing skills are directly inverse to his intelligence. Fortunately for him, his sister Lindy is smart and looks after his affairs, also donating her elastic patience to keeping Kevin out of trouble.
Super-Girl Sandra
Sandra, a native of Mercury, lands on Earth to find out more about the human race. She has incredible abilities, being able to cause almost anything to happen with just a thought. Soon after arriving she makes fast friends with young Earth girl Claire Conway, who tries to teach her about Earth - though Sandra's well-intentioned use of her powers to help others often causes problems.
Tessa and the Time People
Tessa Regan joins a group of fellow students on a summer holiday moorland trek but her hopes of an enjoyable hike are spoilt by the battle-axe track leader Miss Marriner. Fed up with the domineering old hag, Tessa slips away from the group - and finds herself in another world. Three's a Crowd
Arriving to view a bedsit flat, Wendy Baker and Gilly Smith find another girl has already taken it. The landlady offers the pair a chance to share another room together, and all three soon find themselves in competition for both living space and the attention of the fourth tenant, a dishy fella. Tina Aims for the Top!The TrollsAn amiable family of four diminutive trolls attempt to live in peace in the countryside. However, greedy farmer Snurge and his idiot son spot them and become obsessed with capturing them, coming up with a variety of schemes to do so - which uniformly backfire. Twinkle, Twinkle, Daisy Starr!
Growing up in an orphanage, Daisy Starr greatly wants to be a successful entertainer and celebrity. However, the welfare office finds her a much blander posting and she is forced to shelve her dreams for the time being. She does later gain employment as an assistant stage manager in a seaside theatre, and works hard at her job while waiting for her lucky break. Vicky in Australia
Vicky and her father, Professor Curtis, visit Australia to stay with family friends at the Murundi cattle station. She finds that the Drew family have been targeted by local schemer Felix Frost, who wants the farm for himself, and works with Diana Drew to end his machinations.
Westward the WagonsOn an under protected wagon train bound for California, the resourceful Glory Gold takes on the role of chief scout. She is aided by grizzled veteran Old Ned Nickless and Pawnee warrior Young Hawk as the convoy makes its way across the dangerous wilderness, fending off raiders and solving disputes among the travellers, usually led by the cantankerous Caleb Batt. Willy the Wily WolfAn anthropomorphic wolf constantly comes up with schemes to get copious amounts of free food - usually with disastrous results for himself and anyone else unfortunate enough to get caught up in things. The Wizard of Oz
The Wolves of VerdinaAfter time away at school in Rome, Rosina Trenti returns home to her family in the small Southern Italian village of Verdina as her father is in financial trouble. With her mother dead, he is unable to afford childcare for younger siblings Teresa and Mario. Rosina is initially delighted to be home, but soon finds her father acting oddly and begins to suspect he isn't being entirely truthful with her. One-off stories
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