Dear Blog...

Yes.. like this title says.. I'm searching the net (yet again) to find long lost childhood memory's..

This time it's this Dutch 'book' (from the Netherlands) and a little story in it..

On the 23th of July 1993 I got this Tina booklet.. (the biggest magazine for girls) .. I was a little girl of 7 at that date! And got this book. (I still have it actually, resurfacing every now and then just like yesterday)

There is this one story (comic related) in the magazine that really caught my eye at a young age.. it's this one about a mermaid.. unfortunately this story was only 2 and a half pages going on and I never read the other parts in future books.. So .. what is a girl have to do?? I desperately wanted to know what followed next in this little story and off course.. Just looking it up on GOOGLE!!

(BTW.. Happy 25th Birthday GOOGSY*!!) :D (*nickname I choose, for men's best friend these days...)

I actually didn't have much to begin with, as there wasn't any title of this story or even an author.. .. and typed only captions like 'Tina, Mermaid.. but got nothing.

I actually thought of it first being a published comic book from back in the days.. but nothing came up. So yesterday I tried again.. as it has some fine writing D.C Thomson.. The last page on the story depicts the 'name' I would guess for the mermaid as written in caption: 'next week, a warm bath for ATLANTA'...

So I typed in... 'DC: Thomson, mermaid, Atlanta' and finally got some hits.

YAY!!! My crusade is halfway over! I got so much information! And I'm really happy about it..

My first hit was actually a link to a copy of this 'book' on AMAZON!

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/D-C-Thomson/dp/0851164412

This had this picture on it..

This story came on in a magazine called MANDY back in 1990 (and whaddayaknow - it's a BRITISH magazine for girls!) So it must be more or less the same! This story is named: 'Atlanta's tale'.. (quite catchy right??)

On WIKI:

Mandy was a British comic book for girls, published weekly by DC Thomson from 21 January 1967 to 11 May 1991. The majority of the stories were serialized, typically into two or three pages per issue, over eight to twelve issues.

Publication history[edit]

Mandy was published from 21 January 1967 (#1) to 11 May 1991 (#1,269),^[1] at which point it merged with Judy to become Mandy & Judy (also known as M&J). Mandy & Judy was published from 18 May 1991 (#1) until 24 May 1997 (#315), when it merged with Bunty (Bunty ceased publication completely in 2001).

Mandy annuals appeared from 1972 until 2007.^[2]

Then I thought 'jackpot!'.. It looked quite the same, but in non-colours.. and then I had to type:

Mandy - Atlanta - DC Thomson - Comic.. and came across this blog that explains it all!

https://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/mandy-stories/

YAY!!! I found the motherload I guess!!

On this website I found there are more stories about 'Atlanta'.. and that Atlanta's tale was actually a sequal..

Atlanta / Atlanta’s Tale

19th March 2015MandyMagical companion, Mermaids, Tom Hurstmistyfan

Plot

Atlanta’s Tale is the sequel to Atlanta. Atlanta the mermaid returns and her secret is again under threat when photographers catch a glimpse of her tail in the water and become determined to capture a photograph of it and make themselves rich.

Notes

Artist: Tom Hurst

Appeared

Atlanta – Mandy #1015 (28 June 1986) – Mandy #1027 (September 20, 1986)
Atlanta’s Tale – Mandy: #1125 (6 August 1988) – (?)

So .. I found much info about Atlanta's sequal.. but not yet the original beginnings.. This story is about (*insert my age) old.. quite baffling isn'it??? What snooping around on google and pinterest can do... I found the whole original story about Atlanta's tale on Pinterest!

https://nl.pinterest.com/leilaanani9/mermaids-in-comics-magazines/

This person has tons of pictures of every mermaid on earth (i believe)! from movies to comics.. and yes! I found Atlanta's tale on it too... Here you go!