*Girls’ Picture Libraries: From 1978, Debbie Picture Library, like its stablemates Bunty & Judy PL, reprinted serials from the parent weekly, collected into done-in-one handy digests, with the occasional brand-new story thrown in. We’re pleased to have a selection of many of the first fifty of the Debbie PL’s, beginning with the very first, “Lost On Planet X”. One observation to be made is that around a quarter of the stories deal with science-fiction themes – usually mysterious visitors from another planet being mentored by plucky Earth schoolgirls, which seems to have been a very popular trope! Traditionalists need not despair, however – there’s still gymnasts, dancers, orphans, slaves of X and servants of Y in abundance!