Vintage Mandy Comic
What You Get:
An authentic 'Mandy' from the year 1982
Why It's Special:
For 25 years, 'Mandy' ran stories which featured:
- orphans forced to live with cruel or uncaring relatives;
- girls enduring blackmail, hardship, or unpopularity to protect a secret (often on behalf of their family);
- girls slaving for cruel employers or criminals;
- saving animals from cruelty;
- cruel factories, shops, boarding schools or workhouses;
- heroines adopting masked identities to secretly help people;
- spiteful girls causing trouble for an unsuspecting cousin, foster-sister or classmate;
- girls becoming unpopular because events keep conspiring to make them appear jealous or selfish;
- blundering girls getting into one scrape after another;
- girls pretending to be disabled in order to take advantage of people;
- girls who were put under a curse or came into possession of apparently supernatural objects which adversely affected their lives, but of which they were unable to rid themselves until they worked out how.
What You're Guaranteed:
A tour of the strangely yearning, psychological landscape of adolescent girls (as envisioned for them by the editors and artists of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd)
