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Thanks! - those dates are useful. I've got a decent collection of around 150+ scans across multiple titles and decades now, mostly from annuals. Will post back when I've done some analysis...

Thanks both! Great scans Goof! Yep realise there's a lot - I'm hoping as I dip into them something worth pursuing will present itself, e.g. a recurring type of food, phrasing, etc.
I didn't know there was a regular Tammy feature, that's really helpful Tammyfan, thank you! Very interested in how ...

Hi everyone - I’m doing some research into the recipes that appeared in British girls’ comics and would be very grateful for any info please as I'd like to survey as many as possible (I'm interested in how generic these were or whether they were tailored to the type of comic; also what sorts of ...

oh i LOVE this question :D There are loads in the misty one-shots but that feels like a bit of cheat as they're all designed to be one-dimensional moral lessons (but some notable mentions might be Perri who falsely enters an essay competition for disabled children and ends up in a wheelchair (“The ...

…I’ve just realised the dates mean that they can’t have been in Diana. Maybe in Debbie? Did Supercats appear anywhere else?

Hi folks - I’ve recently been in touch with Fiona (Marian) Turner’s son who is trying to locate some of the Supercats stories she sold to DCT. I’ve found a couple for him in the Spellbound reprints (details below) but can’t identify the rest - can anyone with more knowledge of Debbie (or any other ...

Thanks so much to everyone for all the story suggestions here. I've been doing a lot of date checking etc and reading up on those I can access. I'm wondering if anyone has any images from The Doll of Terror from Diana c.1968? I think this might be the first supernatural possession (everything I've ...

Thanks so much to everyone for all the story suggestions here. I've been doing a lot of date checking etc and reading up on those I can access. I'm wondering if anyone has any images from The Doll of Terror from Diana c.1968? I think this might be the first supernatural possession (everything I've ...

Don't forget "Slave of the Clock" from Tammy. https://jintycomic.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/slave-of-the-clock-1982/ . Princess (second series) also had "The Ghostly Ballerina", where the ghost of a frustrated dancer can make mediocre dancers brilliant - but at a terrible price https ...

Misty's "Journey into Fear..." could be described as a blend of possession/evil influence. An evil car, which once belonged to "The Kid", the male half of a brother and sister gangster duo, has the power to seize control of any male who owns it, and make him act like The Kid and re-enact The Kid's ...

Children of Stepford is great and fits with some other examples that name check existing horror books/films too! Thanks!

Thank you all for the suggestions (and sorry for delayed reply, I didn't get any email alerts for some reason).

Been chatting about this on Facebook as well and seems this theme has no real presence in 50s or early 60s; but then seems to take off around mid-1960s, mostly in Diana. But ...

Stories in Tammy that used the subject of possession/evil influence

The Cat's Eye on Katy
Slave of the Clock
Portrait of Doreen Gray
Secret of the Skulls
Back Stab Ballerina
Sit It Out, Sheri
Nightmare at Grimm Fen
What's Wrong with Rhona?
Nina's Nightmare World
Thursday's Child
A Girl Called ...

Another one which may be worth mentioning is "The Strange Ones", about three alien girls who take over a ballet school and its local town. You probably know this, Hypnojoo, from its appearance in Spellbound, but I see that it was originally published in Diana in 1964, which must make it one of the ...

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but possession/hypnosis was a fairly regular theme in ballet stories – evil Svengalis who hypnotise dancers for their own ends, shoes which won’t let the wearer stop dancing and so on. I’m struggling to come up with a really distinctive early ...