Pink – Nostalgia Central

This British magazine/comic hybrid for teenage girls was published weekly by IPC from 1973 to 1980, with a total of 377 issues.

It featured a mix of features on pop music, fashion and comic strips, including Don’t Let Him Fool You, Faye!; The Haunting of Jilly Johnson; Remember, Rosanna, Remember!; Shadow of Fear; Rich Girl, Poor Girl; Looking for Eddie; Patty’s World; The Sea People; and Sugar Jones.

Sugar Jones featured the titular Ms Jones (pictured) – a twenty-something host of her own late-night TV variety show, which was beloved by viewers.

Sugar seemed to be one of the trendiest, kindest stars on television, but only her overworked and underappreciated personal assistant, Susie Ford, knew that Sugar was, in reality, a selfish, sour schemer who was actually “forty made up to look like twenty”.

Sugar would do anything to look good on television, and while her ambition and vanity frequently rebounded on her, Susie always did her best to protect Sugar.

The strips were written by the “Godfather of British comics”, Pat Mills, and drawn with incredible style by Spanish illustrator Rafael Busóm Clúa.

Pink was eventually merged with Mates.