The Computer Wore Pigtails is a series than ran in the British girls’ comic Mandy in 1967. It features Transy–“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 first learned about it through Sophie Jane linking to the Bournemouth University UK Comic Database which has scans of three issues featuring the series: issue #42, issue #43 and issue #45.

Enraptured by the series I posted about it on Cohost where Kore was inspired to seek out more issues of Mandy and acquired several issues, two of which had new Transy stories, which she scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive: issue #44 and issue #46. I used Scan Tailor to make a printer-friendly version of Kore’s scans.

According to Girls Comics of Yesterday it was later reprinted as Electra the Sister with the Transistors.

Art

From Mandy #45 (Kore’s scan).

By Gadget.

By John Earnest.

Collage by me.