- The Box of Hate! – Gypsy Rose story (artist Rodrigo Comos)
- Sue’s Fantastic Fun-Bag! (artist Hugh Thornton-Jones)
- Sceptre of the Toltecs (artist Emilia Prieto)
- Easter’s Coming! Feature
- Spell of the Spinning Wheel (artist Jim Baikie, writer Alison Christie)
- The Big Cat – final episode (artist Ana Rodriguez)
- The Darkening Journey – first episode (artist José Casanovas)
- Made-Up Mandy (artist Audrey Fawley)
- Freda, False Friend (artist Phil Gascoine)
- Mark of the Witch! (artist Phil Townsend)
Gypsy Rose tales always led off the mark during this run in Jinty, and they would have done even more so when they featured on the cover as they do here. This week’s story is about a box inhabited by an evil poltergeist that causes havoc in an antique shop. Poor Trish Drew is being blamed for the damage and turns to Gypsy Rose for help.
It’s the final episode of “The Big Cat”. Regretfully, my copy has a page missing at this point. However, it looks like Ruth and Ayesha save Mrs White from a fire started by the villainous Barwell, become heroines, and everything turns out rosy.
“The Darkening Journey” begins. Thumper the guide dog becomes separated from his blind owner Julie Burton when they move and he gets scared off by a firecracker. He sets off to find Julie with the help of his new friend, Beaky the rook. Little does he know that it is going to be a long, long journey that does not end in Jinty until 6 August 1977.
Rowan can’t figure out why she keeps falling asleep. But by the end of the episode, she has figured out that it is the “spell of the spinning wheel”. Fortunately her father believes it. But as they discover, the mother just won’t!
In “Sceptre of the Toltecs”, the girls have taken off with the sceptre as they feel it is not safe to keep it in the house with evil Uncle Telqotl about. They haven’t realised he has followed them, but they catch on when they get trapped in a hut by an out-of-season blizzard!
“Made-Up Mandy” has disguised herself to fill in for a pop star who doesn’t want her stuffy aunt to find out she is one. But Mandy’s in big trouble when the fans see through her disguise thanks to a naughty dog. And now it looks like the aunt is going to find out everything because of those fans!
“Freda, False Friend” finds out she was wrong about her dad causing the Grands’ accident. But now Gail has found Freda out! Things are going to head up to the climax now.
Emma, the girl with “the mark of the witch”, now seems to be getting even more witchy with her new get-up, conduct of revenge against the villagers, and weird things happening like storms appearing around her and a boy having an accident after she put a curse on him. But there is nothing supernatural about the revenge she takes on Dave Young for setting the trap that her mother fell into – she smashes down his father’s grain field.
A Resource on Jinty: Artists, Writers, Stories 
“The darkening journey” is a nice, but of course not completely realistic story, in which two animals play the lead characters. José Casanovas is one of the few artists who also worked on stories made especially for Tina in the Netherlands, which were probably never published in one of the many British girls magazines. Others who also worked for the Dutch Tina were a.o. Rodrigo Comos, Carlos Freixas and of course Purita Campos, who drew over 2,000 pages of the title charachter Tina and her friend Debbie.
Of the eight serials in this Jinty of 26 March 1977, five were also published overhere in Tina:
– Sceptre of the Toltecs (De scepter van de Tolteken, 1978)
– Spell of the spinning wheel (De betovering van het spinnewiel, 1978)
– The darkening journey (Samen door het duister, 1981-82)
– Freda, false friend (Frieda, de valse vriendin, 1977-78)
– Mark of the witch (Het teken van de heks, 1982-83)