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The Computer Wore Pigtails is a series that appeared in the British girls' comic Mandy in 1967, featuring Transy, the “the first computer to look and act like a twelve-year-old schoolgirl” and who is also extremely trans. Her name is Transy, like.

I do not know how many stories there were but Girls Comics of Yesterday suggests that the series was reprinted in 1975 under the title of Electra the Sister with the Transistors between Mandy #462 and Mandy #470 which suggests that there were at least nine. The Bournemouth University UK Comic Database has three stories archived. I have been unable to find any other extant Transy stories, but I would love to read the rest.

Transy lives with Sally Gleade, whose father works at Imperial Transistor Machines (I.T.M.) where Transy was made and is presumably named after. They also attend Leewood School together. In the first story Transy has a problem: She sucks at rounders.


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Transy and Sally are taking part in a school-wide competition for the best recorder duet and as such Transy has been a on a diet of music programmes, which are depicted as small circuit boards that she eats.

She wants some more variety, though.


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The the third and last issue that I know is extant, Transy faces a problem many of us are familiar with: being singled out for her voice. The music teacher agrees and asks Transy to leave the choir.

Transy is really upset about this and starts getting in trouble in class for not paying attention. A professor at I.T.M. starts working on a new vocal modification unit for Transy but it’s going to take a while before it's ready.




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out of the 7 issues I could find (42, 44-47, 49, 50), I've scanned and uploaded the first 4!

this has unveiled two (!) new Transy comics:

Issue links:

thank you, once more, to @sundry, for setting me down this rabbithole with her initial post about Transy!


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transy the urbanist

I've now scanned all the Mandy issues I own! while unfortunately this has not completed the Transy collection, it has been a fascinating dive into ~girls' comics~ of the 60s, and i've only become more and more fascinated with them as i've worked on this.

on Transy, i've found one more story: The Computer Wore Pigtails: The new girl at Leewood, where Transy meets a rich girl and discovers a lack of affinity for horses.

I think the last Transy comic, unfortunately, is in Issue 48 - which I couldn't find. While I'm trying to follow a few leads regarding it, if anyone knows of a place where I could get it - I'd deeply appreciate it!

Issue Links: