Cover artist: Guy Peeters

• Romy’s Return (artist Juliana Buch, writer Charles Herring)
• E.T. Estate (artist Guy Peeters, writer Jake Adams) – first episode
• The Crayzees (artist Joe Collins)
• The Button Box (artist Mario Capaldi, writer Alison Christie)
• Bella (artist John Armstrong, writer Primrose Cumming)
• Tammy/Gymnastics Freebies
• Carla’s Best Friend (artist John Richardson) – Complete Story
• Pam of Pond Hill (artist Bob Harvey, writer Jay Over)
• Nanny Young (artist Phil Gascoine, writer Maureen Spurgeon)
• Cuckoo in the Nest (artist Tony Coleman, writer Ian Mennell)
• Make the Most of Winter (by Chris Lloyd) – feature 

Tammy makes another strong addition to the New Year. It’s the first episode of her classic “E.T. Estate”, complete with a beautiful cover spot to kick the story off and grab the readers. It is one of Tammy’s most striking covers. In the story, Keats Estate is dubbed E.T. Estate after it gets hit by a meteorite shower and emerges from it looking like a war zone…and war it is, for anyone who discovers what really fell from the sky. It’s an alien threat from outer space! 

Nanny Young finishes her current story, so she will start a new one next week for the January/New Year lineup. 

The complete story is another reprint from Misty, which was originally titled “A Girl’s Best Friend”. This is one of Misty’s most powerful stories and one to leave you in tears. A guide dog seeks help from a white witch to restore her mistress’s sight. But for the spell to work, someone must be willing to exchange their own sight for the girl’s blindness, which means they will become blind if the girl is to see. Ulp!

This week’s Button Box story is a World War II story about courage and not giving up, and that courage comes in all shapes and sizes and not just fighting the enemy on the battlefield. And to inspire courage in her Islamic gymnastics pupils, Bella is telling them the story of her going to Australia to teach gymnastics (her 1978 story).

In “Romy’s Return”, so-called best friend Linda resorts to dirty tricks to stop her friend Romy from winning the swimming trials because she doesn’t want to be pushed out. Afterwards, she is surprised and shocked to find the pool full of litter. It looks like Romy did it, but if so, Linda is the one who is really to blame. Has she gone too far? 

The Cuckoo in the Nest has a new problem: how to pass as a girl on the dance floor at the school disco, and in school uniform because he has no disco gear. His uncle did not think to kit him out in a proper girl’s wardrobe.

Pam has an idea to fulfil Tess’ dream of being a ballet dancer – get her into synchro swimming. But she hadn’t counted on Tess getting overzealous about the idea.