The Return of Splat! (photostory sequel) – first episode
Olly Decides! (artist Trini Tinturé) – complete story
Let’s Go Pop! – feature
Wham! – Pullout
Village of Shame (photostory)
Patty’s World (artist Purita Campos)
The Final Curtain (photostory) – final episode
Help Me! – Problem Page
For the final issue in our Tammy August round, welcome to the Girl and Tammy non-merger issue on 25 August 1984. This is the issue where Tammy would have properly merged with Girl if not for the strike that cut her off on 23 June 1984.
Instead of a proper merger, all that appears is the Tammy logo. There is no Tammy content anywhere in the issue. It’s business as usual for Girl. Girl readers must have wondered what the Tammy logo was doing there, and where the hell Tammy was inside if she was merging with Girl. On the cover here, something is written in pencil: “first combined issue”. From this, it is confirmed the official cancellation of Tammy was set for 18 August 1984 with issue 699. A new photo story starts this issue, possibly to replace whatever had been planned from Tammy.
What the final issue of Tammy would have looked like can only remain forever in speculation. As there was not much room in Girl for the Tammy merger, it is fair to deduce that everything in Tammy would have finished by the final issue, with probably Bella Barlow and/or Pam of Pond Hill carrying on in Girl. How long either of them or anything else from Tammy would have lasted in Girl is anyone’s guess, especially as Girl was given a total makeover on 6 October 1984.
The Tammy logo appeared on the Girl cover, denoting the token merger, until 29 September 1984. Then a new look Girl was launched.
A Resource on Jinty: Artists, Writers, Stories 
Thanks for your adoption of my term ‘non-merger’. One wonders if any readers wrote in to Girl’s letters page, or to IPC, to ask what had happened to Tammy. Phone calls from concerned parents don’t seem unrealistic: “My daughter’s been crying for the last XYZ weeks…” No sarcasm there comics were that popular, though their power might have been waning by this time. I saw no such letters when I last call up these volumes at BL (30/8/2018), so were they editorially suppressed to avoid awkward questions? I simply don’t know. However, although never a contemporaneous Tammy reader, I can tell you one thing: Splat’s return was no substitute for Bella or Pam getting a decent ending. Boo hiss.
Or for the endings of Cora Can’t Lose and the other cut-off serials. Boo hiss 6x.