Jinty (comics)

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Jinty
Jinty cover 19 August 1978.jpg
Cover from issue of Jinty, 19 August 1978. Art by Guy Peeters.
Publication information
Publisher IPC Magazines, Fleetway Publications
ScheduleWeekly
Publication date11 May 1974 – 21 November 1981
No. of issues393
Creative team
Written by Pat Mills, Malcolm Shaw, Jay Over, Terence Magee
Artist(s) Phil Gascoine, Guy Peeters, Jim Baikie, Philip Townsend, Keith Robson, Audrey Fawley, José Casanovas, Trini Tinturé, Rodrigo Comos
Editor(s)Mavis Miller
Collected editions
Jinty Vol. 1: The Human Zoo & The Land of No Tears ISBN   978-1781086247
Fran of the Floods ISBN   978-1781086728
The Concrete Surfer ISBN   978-1781087633

Jinty was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy . It had previously merged with Lindy and Penny [1] in a similar fashion, illustrating the 'hatch-match-dispatch' process practiced by editorial staff in the London comics publisher. [2]

Contents

As well as the weekly comic, Christmas annuals were also published. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates Tammy and Misty , each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories. [3]

Publishing format

As with other girls' comics of the time, Jinty consisted of a collection of many small strips. A typical weekly issue would publish six or seven serial stories, each consisting of around three or four pages of story ending in a cliff-hanger. The first page of the story included a text-box briefly summarizing the story so far, while the final page included a teaser line of text for the next week's episode.

In addition to the serial stories, a few standalone strips were normally published. Usually, these were humorous and featured the same lead character week after week. Alley Cat, Penny Crayon, and others were a single page long, while Sue's Fantastic Fun-Bag! ran to two pages each week. A lead strip in the early days, often taking the cover slot, was The Jinx From St Jonah's, which normally featured a standalone story but occasionally continued it in a subsequent week. An exception to the humour format was the storyteller format, in which the same narrator would each week tell a different spooky or eerie story. In Jinty, that narrator was the character Gypsy Rose. [lower-alpha 1]

Other features includes a letters page, horoscopes, occasional text stories, feature articles on pop or media stars, and various articles on creative things to make and do.

Jinty was printed on newsprint using at most two colours on internal pages and a four-colour process on the external cover pages.

Jinty also merged with Lindy during 1976 and carried into 1977.

Contributors

Artists and writers were not credited in Jinty. Artists can be identified by their work in other comics, whether girls comics such as Tammy (which moved to a system of crediting creators in the early 1980s) [3] or in boys' comics such as 2000AD , which brought such a policy in from earlier on. In other cases, it is possible to identify the artists from signatures on the comics page. Identification of writers in Jinty is currently dependent on information given by the writers themselves.

Mavis Miller was the editor. [2]

Artists

Artists featured in the pages of Jinty included:

Writers

Writers featured included:

Themes and key stories

While many of the stories published in Jinty were realistically based in everyday life (such as Pam of Pond Hill, an episodic tale of a young girl at a Comprehensive school), [3] it differentiated itself from other comics in printing more stories with a science-fictional or fantastical focus.

Some published stories show a strong environmental concern.

Some stories focused on disabilities.

Other stories covered ground seen in many traditional girls' comics.

Humour stories included:

Historical stories included:

More traditional stories included:

Serials imported from the merger with Lindy:

See also

Notes

  1. A Resource on Jinty blog claims that the stories introduced by Gypsy Rose in Jinty were repackaged reprints from The Strangest Stories Ever Told strip which had previously been published in June and Tammy . [4]

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