*Girls’ Comics: Following the success of Tammy, a more ‘streetwise’ girls’ weekly, IPC/Fleetway tried to reprise the hit with Sandie, heavily pushed as a sister title. Despite an impressive line-up of creative talent, sadly Sandie didn’t ‘take’, and its short run ended in 1973, around a year and a half after its launch, with ‘Jeanie and Her Uncle Meanie’ and ‘Wee Sue’ going on to longer runs in Tammy than they had in their original series. The short run notwithstanding, Sandie offered a number of classic strips, including ‘Nat the Cat’ (for a change, an actual cat, rather than a plucky girl in a costume), beautifully drawn by Casanovas, and ‘Captives of Madam Karma’, an early effort in the ‘slave’ genre by Pat Mills, of which he famously remarked: “I’m so ashamed!”. We have added 41 non-consecutive issues of the 89-issue Sandie run, beginning in March 1972, its second month of publication, and concluding with the final number in October 1973.