Minor Characters From Other Stories
- The Quints Only appearing in Mary Marvel #8. The five children of Mrs Crane, Mary's neighbour. They consist of four boys and one girl. They are called Johnny, Lonny, Ronny, Donny, and Bonny. They cause trouble for Mary by their mischief-making activities. Mary tries to read them fairy stories as their Governess. First they climb on a tree but the branch breaks. Mary stops them breaking their necks by transforming and Bonny lands on her back. Then she falls asleep while reading another one. The children make the bath overflow and nearly cause a fire in the cellar. Mary Marvel decides to spank them, but is stopped from corporal punishment by Bonny getting many cats in the house. Mary gets them out then turns back. The kids start playing Cowboys and Indians. They tell Mary she is their prisoner and tie her to a tree. They tell Mary they have to gag her too. Bonny then says they can have un now their governess is all tied up. They go to play in a bull field. Mary realises she fell into their trap. But she realises the gag is very loose, maybe she can shake it off. Meanwhile the kids are chased by a bull. Meanwhile Mary has shaken her gag off and transforms. She defeats the bull and soon after their Mother comes back. Mary doesn't want to watch them again and goes to have a rest.
- Tim Boyfriend of girl called Judy, likes to photograph things. Judy jealous of Mary Marvel. When two crooks try to rob a group of people and Mary stops one, Judy tries to stop the other, but is held hostage. Tim takes a photograph of the car. Judy's cat Kitzel leads Tim to the cave where the crooks are. Howeve he is caught by one. Both Tim and Judy are bound hand and foot in the cave. Two dynamite are lit to dispose of the two. However Kitzel gets into the cave and pulls at a knot, freeing Judy's hands. One dynamite goes off, burying all of Tim except his head under rocks. She tries to free him, even though the other dynamite is about to go off. Mary sees the crooks car, but they have changed the number plate. However she realises in the photo the license plate is dirty and the other one is clean. She stops the car and sees Kitzel's eyes inside the cave. She is able to throw the other dynamite away before it goes off.
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