Run, Kristina ... Run!: Princess Tina, issues 31 - 46 (1971)

[comixminx]

Terence Magee has written in to the Jinty blog saying that he wrote Run, Kristina ... Run!, published in Princess Tina as per the issue numbers specified (many thanks to Catawikifor having so much info available and searchable!). He would love to be able to see some of the story again. Does anyone have one of the issues listed, and if so can they scan and upload a page or two?

He says the "plot [was] set in Holland in WWII, based on The Sound of Music (young girl fleeing with bunch of kids from Nazis). It was my first ever serial, kindly given to me by Editor Des Pride, and was clumsily written. I only ever saw a couple of Princess Tina issues including the story."

[Phoenix]

Does anyone have one of the issues listed, and if so can they scan and upload a page or two?

I have just one instalment, comixminx. It is in the 30th October 1971 issue. It is not numbered, nor is the only other issue I have, which doesn't contain the requested serial. The comic is wider than my A4 scanner but I hope the scans of the complete instalment are acceptable to Terence anyway.

[Tammyfan]

I love information on WWII stories in girls comics!

[philcom55]

"Nazi dumbheads"????

In case anybody is sitting on the edge of their seat after that cliffhanger here's the final episode!

[Phoenix]

.....to rescue the Van Rosen's what?

[Digifiend]

An apostrophe where it doesn't belong... trouble is, it would still slip through the net nowadays as a pluralised surname like Van Rosens would probably false positive the spellchecker (and indeed did so as I typed this).

[Tammyfan]

An apostrophe where it doesn't belong... trouble is, it would still slip through the net nowadays as a pluralised surname like Van Rosens would probably false positive the spellchecker (and indeed did so as I typed this).

I spotted incorrect apostrophe use in Misty's "Mask of Fear" too - "it's terrible secret" when it should be "its terrible secret".

[colcool007]

Do we have any idea of whom the artist is?

[Tammyfan]

Do we have any idea of whom the artist is?

Catawiki says the artist was Vicente Torregrosa Manrique.

[philcom55]

Funnily enough Phil Clarke and Mike Higgs had the original art for one episode at Edgbaston today.

[Phoenix]

Funnily enough Phil Clarke and Mike Higgs had the original art for one episode at Edgbaston today.

I'm sure Terence Magee would like to get his hands on that. Someone, perhaps comixminx, could maybe get a message to him.

[comixminx]

Funnily enough Phil Clarke and Mike Higgs had the original art for one episode at Edgbaston today.

I'm sure Terence Magee would like to get his hands on that. Someone, perhaps comixminx, could maybe get a message to him.

I could certainly send that info on. TM doesn't live in the UK though - do Phil Clarke and Mike Higgs have a website they also sell through?

[philcom55]

This is their Ebay shop, though the pages in question aren't currently listed.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/psconbo2003blasebooks/

[comixminx]

This is their Ebay shop, though the pages in question aren't currently listed.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/psconbo2003blasebooks/

Interesting! I'd been referred to that ebay ID as being Peter Hansen's, is he in association with them do you know? Anyway I will make sure that Terry sees it, thanks.

[philcom55]

Yes. Phil acts as Peter's agent in selling the artwork he bought a few years ago, operating as Blasé Books. I've visited the building just outside Birmingham in which the remaining artwork is stored a number of times, and even though IPC disposed of a lot of their extensive backlog years ago (including virtually everything from Misty) there is still a staggering amount left from girls' titles such as Princess and Princess Tina - including hundreds of episodes of The Happy Days! The only Tammy pages remaining seem to come from stories that were subsequently reprinted in comics like the revived Princess - but this just adds to the thrill of rummaging through the stacks since you never know quite what you're going to uncover!