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What I had in mind was not so much stories about mischievous trouble-maker doubles as those where the double tries to replace the heroine, taking over her life and depriving her of her identity. The Mandy Annual story is one example of this. This situation is still not strictly possession, but can ...

In "The House Mouse" (Tammy & Misty, 9-16 August 1980) we have a possessed mouse. The mouse is "the eyes and ears" of Albert de Quincy, a (we gather) horrible man who was so obsessed about his house never leaving his family that he entombed himself inside it and uses the mouse to drive off potential...

What about objects that are possessed? Here is one possibility, "Little Dolly Demon", from Judy PSL #220. http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2016/10/little-dolly-demon-1981/ We never find out why the doll in the story is evil, but there are a lot of true-life stories about dolls being possessed by de...

I'm not sure if the doppelgänger story quite falls under the label of possession, but their influence can be evil. Astra, the evil double in "Who Is Astra?", seemed to have an evil influence on other people and also induce nightmares in our protagonist. More often though, the double just causes trou...

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 c...

Spell of Fog from Tammy is also a very unusual possession story. Villagers become possessed by ghosts, who force them to re-enact the persecution of a girl for witchcraft. But the ghosts do it because they want to teach people a lesson that witch hunting is not a thing of the past - it's a thing any...

The Mystery of Martine from Jinty is definitely a brilliant possession story. We're not even sure just what is doing the possessing, which makes it even better, and it makes a change from ghosts, witches and spells. There is actually a hint of a demon, a most unusual thing for a girls' story to use ...

Jinty’s Village of Fame featured a hypnotist, I’ve just remembered. Bad guy Mr Grand brings him in when he realises things are not going all his way.

Another Jinty story to use evil influence was Children of Stepford. Mind you, drugs are used, not hypnotism or possession.

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 Midni...

One good possession story in Tammy was "Secret of the Skulls", where Prudence Sylvester is up against a woman who has been possessed by the spirit of a witch - not to mention a lot of creepy skulls that have the power to burn things! Another sort of possession story from Tammy is "The Cat's Eye on K...

Robert Le Mal, the ghost in Tammy's "Nightmare at Grimm Fen", has amazing powers of possession: he can control birds, animals, people and even power lines. I might do an entry on this one when my comics are out of storage. It would be cool for Halloween time.

Misty had a sort of possessed story, "Hush, Hush, Sweet Rachel", where Lisa Harvey is overtaken by her previous existence as Rachel Prendergast, a four-year-old who died in mysterious circumstances https://jintycomic.wordpress.com/2017/ ... l-1978-79/

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 exampl...

I can't really help with the 1950s-1960s mark. You might find something if you navigate Girls Comics of Yesterday with keywords "evil object" and "evil influence". There was a story actually called "Possessed" from Judy. More info here http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2014/12/possessed/ In Bunty's ...