Misty

[dem bones]

Misty calling you again. Welcome once more to my special world. Gaze into my crystal ball and see the mysteries and marvels I have gathered together for you this month. But heed my warning. Do NOT read them before you go to bed. Your friend. Misty.

That's Misty's introduction to The Best Of Misty Monthly #3 (April 1986), and you'd do well to heed her words! I thought I'd best make a start as this section is about as much use to us as a flirt zone just now. That tagline - Stories Not To Be Read At Night recalls Christine Campbell Thomson and the strips are brilliant regurgitation's of popular horror plots from the same era. Even though you can double-guess just about everything that's going to happen it doesn't detract from the delicious thrill of the strips in the slightest. In The Eyes Of The Gorgon, Uncle Seth is turned to stone by the snake haired Medusa. Queens Weather - one of two 'Beasts' stories - sees Sal abducted by bees and trapped inside their hive, seemingly because she objected when one of them stung her (moral; sunbathing is vain). Hush, Hush, Sweet Rachel reproduces one of the comic's spooky serials in full. "A strange woman had been following Lisa Harvey. The woman claimed Lisa was the reincarnation of her daughter Rachel - who had died under mysterious circumstances". Best of all, Alien Seed, a bona fide traditional demon flower story. "Soft summer rain was falling in the South of England. In a neglected garden a strange and sinister seedling fingered its way up ..."

Libby Regan is sent by her parents to spend a month with her botanist Uncle Marcus in a "dead and alive village". Libby has obviously read about man-eating plants on our old forum as she takes her kitten along as triffid bait. Uncle Marcus enthuses over his ultra-rare weed but Libby isn't quite so impressed on account of it looking "sort of fleshy". Within days it has the strength and size to easily overpower Uncle Marcus .....

The annuals are more of the same, fleshed out with uncredited short fiction with titles like Voodoo and The Weird Sisters, articles (Make Your Own Shrunken Head, Pretty Magical: Misty Waves Her Wand And Spells Your Fashion And Beauty Problems Away, Dracula) and the occasional poem: the 1981 offering includes a reprint of M. G. Lewis's ghoulish Alonzo The Brave And The Fair Imogen.

Check out the Misty site!

mistycomic.co.uk/home.htm

[dem bones]

Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages: The "Official" Misty website

The new moon phase is the time of new beginnings - like the Maiden form of the Goddess and the season of Spring. The appearance of the new crescent moon was celebrated as a return of the moon from the dead.
This is a time of growing energy, newness, rejuvenation, growth, renewal and hope.

Misty will be back from The World of Shadows on November 9th 2007 on the advent of the new moon, returning once again to bring you her tales of mystery and intrigue.

Till we return with the Official Misty Website.

Regards,
The Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages Team.

mistycomic.co.uk/portal/index.php

[lynnielynn]

I love love love Misty!

[dem bones]

Great to have you back, lynnie. I remember you mentioning you were a Misty fan on the old board. I don't think I ever saw the original comics but the 'best of's from the mid-eighties are top, top stuff.

[Craig Herbertson]

Sorry but you just cannot put up a brilliant mag with an article called 'make your own shrunken head' without telling us how we can do that. Christmas is coming up, this would be ideal for my xmas list. I demand the details are revealed.

[dem bones]

Could prove a little tricky right now. The bride has put all her comics in a pile and drawn a pentagram around them.

I think it involved mutilating a satsuma but your best bet is to nip over to Ecuador and join the Jivaro tribe. They'll see you alright.

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

I remember, as a Dracula-obsessed primary school lad, being really hacked off that Misty was for girls, therefore out of bounds to the likes of me. This was after some girl at school brought in an issue which had a Drac-packed feature with photos of Christopher Lee in it.
It was almost as disappointing as spotting someone on a train down to Blackpool reading a copy of "House of Hammer", realising that, yes, that was Hammer Films it referred to, and never knowing where it was possible to get hold of such an obviously wonderful publication.
(As it happens, I have some bound year-files of DCT's Misty-like comic, "Spellbound" to hand in the office. Will start going through them shortly for a separate thread.)

[Craig Herbertson]

Well the wikipedia article bears me out:

'the owner of the trophy did not keep it for long. Many heads were later used in religious ceremonies and feasts that celebrated the victories of the tribe. The heads would either be discarded or given to the children.'

I assume they waited until Christmas....

Craig

[dem bones]

News just in from Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages:

Vote For Your Favourite Misty Story

Thanks to Egmont, the copyright owner of Misty, you now have the opportunity to vote for your favourite Misty story to be printed again IN FULL again online.
Voting will be open for 1 month, after which results will be totaled and the winning story reprinted in the Archives pages.

Head over to the www.mistycomic.co.uk/Community.html pages and click Vote to register your request.

Regards,

The Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages Team.

[dem bones]

Yet more big Misty news!

There was a time when many of the strips were available online, but the copyright owners objected and, if I remember, the site was forcibly closed. But ....

Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages: Misty Special 2008

After much delay, mainly due to the discussions with Egmont concerning the OFFICIAL status of the Misty comic website, we are now in the planning stage of the next Misty Special for 2008.

If you interested in contributing to this forthcoming publication, please reply back to me stating your interest and possible contribution. We will then reply back with specifications etc.

With the OFFICIAL status now attached to the website and to this publication, the launch will be of a larger scale with hopefully a print run to exceed the amazing interest we had in the first Special.

Thank you in advance for your continued interest.

Regards,
The Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages Team.

Congratulations to the team for seeing the uneven battle through - and winning! Truly cut from the same cloth as Misty herself (to say nothing of those plucky nicely dressed Orphanage girls)!

[redbrain]

Looking on Abebooks yesterday, I saw that several Misty annuals were listed. Made me wonder which was a good year for nicely dressed orphanage girls.

[dem bones]

They weren't really called 'The Nicely Dressed Orphanage Girls', silly! I made that up all by myself! I found them in the spine-chilling Screaming Point which (re)appeared in Best Of Misty #5 (1986/7) . Not sure if they survived for an annual.

[redbrain]

But you did right to call them nicely dressed orphanage girls - they were orphanage girls, and they were nicely dressed. QED. ;D

[dem bones]

Top news for fans of Countess Misty!

A Misty collector's edition will go on sale in December 2009, and is the last of four collections of classic comic strips planned by children's book and magazine publisher Egmont.

A new ongoing poll will be established later today for you to (hopefully) influence the content of the Special.

More news as it happens!

Your friend of Misty

Regards,
The Mistycomic.co.uk Forum Pages Team.

[killercrab]

This is a WH Smith exclusive - as are the ROY OF THE ROVERS , BATTLE and BUSTER compilations . Retailing at £3.99.

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