"Nancy the Little Nurse" (later "Nurse Nancy") was a strip that ran in Twinkle from 1968 to 1998. The strip was drawn by Sabine Price.[1] It started off in back and white, and then went into colour in 1988. "Nurse Nancy" was always the most popular story in Twinkle, and for a while in the 1990s was promoted to the front cover, when the title was changed to Twinkle and Nurse Nancy.
The main character was the granddaughter of an elderly man who spent his time repairing dolls; Nancy, dressed in a nurse's uniform, helped him with this task (although, as the grandad tended to be absent from the strips, Nancy appeared to be doing most of the work herself.)
"Nurse Nancy" has the distinction of being one of ten strips honoured on a set of stamps released in March 2012 to celebrate British comics.[2]
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- ↑ Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987, p. 151
- ↑ http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/march/comic-stamps