Spellbound was, as mentioned before, DC Thompson's big Girls Mystery Weekly, which these days feels like a copy of the much better known Misty, even though it actually appeared first.
Personally, I slightly prefer Misty if pushed to decide, though let's not forget, Spellbound had Supercats.
It also had lots of other great stuff, like When The Mummy Walks, the strip that led off the first 10 issues.
It's a cracking mystery strip, with a plucky heroine, a dopy hero and a hissable villain, as well as the spooky Mummy herself, but as so often in Girls weeklies, what's really great about it is the art.
I would've sworn up and down this was by some Spanish artist I'd previously been unaware of, what with it's wibbly-wobbly line and slightly off-kilter look. This guy never worked for Warren, but it's so in that Spanish style I was absolutely convinced.
But according to the site Girls Comics Of Yesterday, this is by an artist called Norman Lee, who presumably was British.
There's no other information about this guy anywhere, as far as I can tell, but a quick look over at the GCBC reveals a Norman Lee who worked for a German mystery book called Vanessa, and the painted covers kind of maybe look like the same artist.
Lee ( whoever he was ) also did the jokier, but equally great I Don't Want To Be A Witch for Spellbound, so who was he really?
A girls mystery comic with a mystery of it's own...
