*Girls’ Comics: Debuting in 1974, and lasting a respectable 393 issues until 1981, Jinty, although it featured many traditional girls’ strips, rapidly distinguished itself from the pack by having a large proportion of science-fictional or fantasy stories. Maladroit schoolgirl ‘The Jinx From St. Jonah’s’ and canine maid-of-all-work ‘Dora Dogsbody’ were leaders among the traditional fare, but some of the best-remembered stories are ‘The Human Zoo’, ‘Fran of the Floods’, ‘Land of No tears’, the genuinely unnerving ‘Worlds Apart’ (six schoolgirls find themselves in a succession of parallel worlds created by each girls’ hidden fear – and they can’t escape until that world’s ‘creator’ is killed!) and the notorious ‘Slave of Form 3B’. We have 85 new issues of Jinty for our inventory, beginning with the fifth issue, and running up to late 1976, including the 8th November 1975 issue in which Jinty absorbed its short-lived sister Lindy.
PICTURED: JINTY 13/7/74 VG £4