Princess Tina facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Princess Tina |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | International Publishing Company |
| Schedule | Weekly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Publication date | 23 September 1967 – 18 August 1973 |
| Number of issues | 256 |
| Main character(s) | Patty Lucas |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Jenny Butterworth, Philip Douglas, Betty Roland |
| Artist(s) | Purita Campos, D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Terence Magee, Hugh McNeill, Leslie Otway, Dudley Pout, Andrew J. Wilson |
| Editor(s) | Desmond Pride John Wagner |
Princess Tina (at times known as Princess Tina and Penelope and then simply Tina) was a weekly British girls' comic published from fall 1967 to summer 1973 by the International Publishing Company, initially under the Fleetway Publications banner. Two comics, Princess and Tina, were merged to form Princess Tina; another title, Penelope, was merged into Princess Tina in 1969; the publication itself came to an end when it was merged into Pink.
The comic was a key link in a long line of British girls' comics titles that stretched from 1950 to 1980, starting with Girl, then Princess, Tina, Penelope, Pink, and ending with Mates.
Notable creators associated with the publication included Betty Roland, Purita Campos, and D. C. Eyles; its last editor was John Wagner.
Content
One of the title's most notable strips was Purita Campos' Patty's World, created with writer Philip Douglas, "about the everyday life of 13-year old Patty Lucas." Launched in 1971, the strip survived the merger with Pink, finally moving on to Mates, and then the 1980s relaunch of Girl, finally ending in 1988.
Dutch version
Launched in 1967, the Dutch comic Tina was initially a translated version of Princess Tina (but unlike the source publication, was from the start executed in color). It became the most notable of the British-inspired girls' magazines which published a lot of comics, predominantly from British origin (albeit mostly drawn by anonymous Spanish Fleetway studios artists), just like Sjors magazine had at first. And like Sjors, Tina would provide a platform for Dutch talents like Jan Kruis, Jan Steeman, and Patty Klein to flourish, unsurprisingly perhaps as both magazines were at the time published by Dutch publishing house Uitgeverij en Drukkerij De Spaarnestad.
Strips
- Alona: The Wild One by Leslie Otway (from 1967; continued from Princess)
- The Happy Days by Jenny Butterworth and Andrew J. Wilson (from 1967; continued from Princess)
- Jane Bond: Secret Agent by Mike Hubbard (continued from Tina)
- Patty's World by Philip Douglas and Purita Campos (1971–1973; continued in Pink)
- Run, Kristina, Run by Terence Magee
- The Trolls by Hugh McNeill
- Vicky in Australia by Betty Roland and Dudley Pout — reprinted from Girl, where it ran from 1954 to 1958
- Willy the Wily Wolf by Hugh McNeill
