Tina #48/1971
Tina #48 (1971, De Spaarnestad) sits at the hinge point when the Dutch edition of Tina pivoted from a straight translation of British source material toward original, Netherlands-specific content. The issue debuts 'Patty and the Big Silver Bull Band,' the first strip created specifically for the Dutch Tina by homegrown creators Lo Hartog van Banda and Gideon Brugman, marking a decisive step in the magazine's evolution into a genuinely Dutch cultural product. The same launch year brought 'Peggy's Wereldje' — the Dutch localization of Purita Campos and Philip Douglas's 'Patty's World' — introducing the character catalogued here as Peggy Lucas, whose emotionally honest, slice-of-life format would reshape what Dutch girls' comics could look and feel like. Together, these 1971 arrivals helped transform Tina from a licensed repackager of British adventure strips into the country's best-selling girls' magazine.
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The Dutch Tina had launched on 10 June 1967 as a full-colour adaptation of Fleetway/IPC's British 'Princess Tina,' with De Spaarnestad in Haarlem as publisher — the only edition in the multinational syndicate to print entirely in colour from day one. By 1971, with the British parent title struggling and many European co-publishers having already folded, De Spaarnestad's edition was thriving at roughly 100,000 copies per week and had become the Netherlands' best-selling comic; this commercial health gave editor Frans Buissink (appointed editor-in-chief of Tina in the autumn of 1971) the latitude to commission strips built for Dutch readers rather than translated from British originals. The strip 'Peggy's Wereldje,' carrying the character Peggy Lucas, was the Dutch-titled version of 'Patty's World,' which debuted in British Princess Tina on 31 July 1971 — drawn by Spanish artist Purita Campos and written by Philip Douglas — and was syndicated into the Dutch Tina that same year.
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- Tina #48 (1971) is documented as the debut issue of 'Patty and the Big Silver Bull Band,' the first comic strip created specifically for the Dutch edition of Tina, by Dutch creators Lo Hartog van Banda (script) and Gideon Brugman (art); the strip ran 1971–1976.
- The character catalogued as Peggy Lucas is the Dutch-edition name for Patty Lucas, the protagonist of 'Patty's World' (British title) / 'Peggy's Wereldje' (Dutch title), a weekly serial by writer Philip Douglas and artist Purita Campos that launched in 1971 and ran in the Dutch Tina through 1984–1986.
- Purita Campos (Barcelona, 1937–2019) was a Spanish cartoonist who drew 'Peggy's Wereldje' for the Dutch Tina from 1971 onward; she also painted covers for the magazine regularly from 1970, exclusively from late 1973 to 1983.
- 'Patty's World' debuted in the British Princess Tina on 31 July 1971 and was almost unique in European girls' comics for allowing its lead character to age in real time over the strip's 17-year run.
- The strip centred on thirteen-year-old Patty/Peggy Lucas, who lives with her widowed mother in a small British town; its focus on everyday adolescent experience — growing up, family tensions, schoolyard life — represented a tonal departure from the action-adventure strips that had previously dominated Tina.
- The Dutch Tina was the only edition in the original multinational Tina syndicate (which also included British, German, French, Italian, and other publishers) to print in full colour from its very first issue in 1967.
- Frans Buissink was appointed editor-in-chief of De Spaarnestad's Tina in the autumn of 1971, the same editorial season that saw the magazine begin commissioning original Dutch-produced content alongside its British imports.
- 'Peggy's Wereldje' is described by the Lambiek Dutch comics history as one of the first strips in Tina to focus entirely on the inner world of growing teenagers, and is considered a classic of the Dutch Tina canon.