But an unlikely Scottish champion is setting out to woo the female audience back to a world of comic books now populated by testosterone-fuelled superheroes indulging in increasingly gory battles against the forces of evil.
They embodied a more innocent age light years from our own, but Bunty and its sister comics helped shape a generation of girls by offering a vision of jolly hockey-sticks wholesomeness.
But an unlikely Scottish champion is setting out to woo the female audience back to a world of comic books now populated by testosterone-fuelled superheroes indulging in increasingly gory battles against the forces of evil.
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