There were lots of Jem books released, if you count comics, activity books, sticker
albums, note books and international ones (where
some of course had the same content but translated to other languages).
The books certainly deserve their own bit of recognition as part of the Jem universe. Or rather, their stories can almost be considered an alternate Jem universe, because although the books are mostly based on the stories from the cartoon and the drawings from the doll boxes, the characters act and look a little different. They create their own style to Jem. And this even differs between the different books. It's interesting to see all the different versions of Jem, different hairstyles, colors, personalities, fashions, by the different artists and writers (most of which we don't even know the names). Personally I think most of the books make the characters look a bit old fashioned. But after seeing all the Jem episodes many times, it's entertaining to read all these stories also. But since alot of the international books are very rare, there's probably barely any Jem fan who has read it all. So if you by any chance happen to have the rest of the Mexican comics, any of the other comics missing on this page, or even the not so rare US Hardcover "Spoils of Success", put "Jem books" in the subject line and send me an email. Just like with most Jem things, there are collectors of it. The books are one of the more sought after items, after the dolls themselves. So how rare are the different kind of books? As for the US books: storybooks, sticker albums, coloring books, there are no rarities at all, though some are slightly harder to find. Most of the UK books are very easy to find and cheap nowadays, with a big exception of the one (or more?) small activity books which are super rare. Comics from any country are rare, especially France and Mexico. Some books from Italy and everything from Sweden is very rare. This has turned into quite a giantic page, and it's only going to grow!
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Paperback, 1986 by Golden:
One of Jem and the Holograms' favorite songs are "She's Got The Power".
Aja and Shana are wearing different colored fashions based on the fashions
released in the doll line as "Permanent Wave".
Jem and the Holograms have a song called "Magic" with one line
being "...a secret kind of magic...".
There are some bands called "Smash" and "Zarp".
Starlight Mansion has different stairs in front of the entrance.
Jem and the Holograms have an album called "Animal Attraction" and they shot several
videos in Kenya, Africa.
Jem and the Holograms won the Gold Record Award for their last album.
The Misfits have an album called "Riot in the Streets".
Howard Sands has a private game preserve in Kenya where he raises orphan animals like
lions and monkeys.
Jem and the Holograms have a song titled "Goin' Ape Over You" and another titled
"Can't Take Those Lyin' Eyes" (as in Lion eyes).
Hardcover, 1986 by Golden:
The Jemstar earrings are shaped as regular stars.
The hairstyles on Jem and the Holograms are different, especially Jem who has
pink and blonde hair, and Shana who has a round afro.
Synergy appears in the mirror in Jerrica's bedroom.
Aja and Shana are called "Jerrica's roommates".
Kimber has the guitar the doll came with which was never seen in the cartoon,
and she even has it before they find the instruments at the Starlight Drive-in, but Aja
gets hers at the Drive-in.
While re-wiring a light, Rio wears ripped jeans shorts.
Kimber refers to Starlight Music as "half ours".
Kimber calls Eric Raymond "dad's partner" while in the
cartoon Emmett called him "assistant".
The Misfits come driving into Eric's office, not on the guitar-shaped motorcycles, but
regular motorcycles.
At the Starlight Drive-in, Synergy appears as a large face only,
and nobody needs to walk through a wall, Synergy start removing the holographic walls
instead.
Kimber says the line that was Jerrica's in the cartoon "Father made you?".
Jem comes up with everything about the band right at the Starlight
Drive-in, she decides that Kimber will write the lyrics, Rio can be
their manager but he must not know Jem is really Jerrica, and Jerrica herself
will be the leader of the band will be called "the Holograms".
The Limp Lizards are actually dressed out as lizards.
Instead of by accident, Zipper burns down Starlight House
intentionally and smiles looking back at it.
Some of the fashions have other designs, colors and patterns.
Zipper has three friends that don't resemble the ones in the cartoon.
Instead of arriving themselves to the Starlight Drive-in
before the contest, the Holograms are thrown into the
back of a van and taken to a dark warehouse. Instead
of Lions there is a tiger and then a train. Instead of
getting help by Rio and and the police, Jem and the
Holograms escape themselves.
Rio wears the outfit the dolls wore, but has brown hair.
Shana plays guitar instead of drums, like the doll.
Jerrica is rehearsing with the holograms by using a conductor stick.
Jem and the Holograms are competing in the Top Rock Music Awards.
Kimber takes skydiving lessons, and takes a limo to it.
There is a fan club for Kimber.
The Holograms each have different colored version of the fashion
Command Performance.
Jem's hair and makeup is being taken care of by a hairdresser,
contrary to the cartoon episode Starbright part 1.
Jem's earrings are being stolen, but Jem doesn't change back to Jerrica.
Instead the big deal is that Jerrica can't sing like Jem without the earrings.
There's a rock singer named David Michael Springer
who has purple hair, Aja is crazy about him and he kisses Aja on the cheek.
Jem and the Holograms get an award for "creating the most exciting new look
and sound in rock and roll this year".
Find Your Fate, 1986 by Balantine Books:
Nachos is Jerrica's favorite snack, and eating pizza in a bubble bath helps her think.
Stormer is a vegetarian and says she doesn't believe in killing
animals.
The Misfits have a new song called "Hit Me With A Cheap Shot".
Aja says that she wish she knew more about cars, while in the cartoon she certainly does.
Kimber took an auto mechanics class in high school.
Eric has a plane marked Eric Raymond Enterprises.
Pizzazz hates snakes.
Jerrica and Kimber's father took them to Rainbow
Island every year when they were kids.
Jerrica is mentioned to have violet eyes. The
Starlight Girl Joellen's name is spelled Joelle.
Synergy projects a hologram of a ghost ship, which is the one
seen on the cover art.
Aja wants to design costumes for a show, and Shana takes charge of the
choreography. In the cartoon, Shana is the designer, and Danse takes care
of the choreography.
Kimber's has written a new song that is
a fast-tempo upbeat number titled "Rainbow Runner" and
gets nominated for Best Video of the Year, the
first line is "I'm always chasing rainbows", and
the rest of the lyrics goes "I want the rainbows to
shine, and the seabirds to soar, and my song to sing
over, the blue ocean's roar, I'm a rainbow runner a
rainbow runner, Rainbow's Island is my heart's true
home, I'm a rainbow runner a rainbow runner, its
beauty is with me wherever I roam".
Jem and the Holograms have a song called "Just You And
Me, Under The Sea".
By the help of holograms Jem makes the stage an underwater wonderland with tropical fish
swimming around them and beautiful sea plants swaying
back and forth to the beat of the music, which makes
you wonder what Rio and the other people behind the
scenes would think about the special effects.
Jerrica neatly tucks her pink hair
under fashionable red beret and changes her concert
clothes to sleek black dress, so apparently sometimes
Jem does litterary change into Jerrica like the doll.
Rio has a friend called Brad Turner with blonde hair
and green eyes, who is the best video producer in the
business and offers to make a video of Kimber's song,
and Aja thinks he is quite a hunk and Jem agrees.
Aja says that maybe she can spray her hair all the
colors of the rainbow, so maybe that means they spray
their hair their regular colors.
Ba Nee is called "Bonnie" and Joellen "Joelle".
Stormer heaves a big rock
at Rio's head and he drops face down in the sand, not
the Stormer we are used to.
The Misfits' music is refered to as Rock/Pop/Punk. The Misfits have a new
song called "Road Rocker".
Mini World, 1986 by World (UK):
This story is a bit like the cartoon episode "In Search Of The Stolen Album".
Jerrica is wearing the hat from the doll outfit, and blue and white striped dress.
There's a TV-show called "the Jerry Carson Show".
Eric can't stand cats, he's terrified of them.
The roadster is included in this book.
Jerrica is offered to join the Misfits as part of the group.
She accepts, and they give her a Misfits make-over.
There's a presentation ceremony for rock and pop awards.
Jerrica calls the Misfits the worst band of the year.
The Misfits recognize that Jerrica is wearing the same earrings as Jem.
Good, finally!
Jerrica can't play any musical instrument, and according to Pizzazz,
neither can any of the Misfits.
Rio suggests that Kimber takes over the vocals when Jem is gone, but
Jem makes fun of Kimber's vocal ability.
King Kong is mentioned.
The head of the Starlight recording studios is someone called Alan, and Aja likes him.
Tarzan is mentioned.
Kimber plays on Shana's guitar.
We get to see Starlight House.
The roadster is included in this book.
As a funny note, in these books Shana has a bow in her hair, like the doll does.
The Holograms and the Misfits' instruments are the doll versions.
Jem calls Pizzazz a "clown", which I guess might be a expression used in the UK instead of
"silly".
Jem is wearing the fashion "Permanent Wave" which is Kimber's outfit in the cartoon.
Instead of "Show's over Synergy", Jerrica says "Holograms off".
Annuals, by World (UK):
In one story Jem is completely out of character and
acts very mean, without explanation.
The Misfits have a dark, sleek cadillac called "Dark
Demon", with a ornate design on the bonnet on the
motor, making it resemble an unpleasant grinning face.
It says that as a dancer, Shana is great.
Danse is introduced as a member of the group, and
Clash as one of the Misfits.
Clash has purple hair,
like she did after the change in the cartoon.
In some of the stories Eric has a bit of white in his
hair on the sides.
When asked about his swimming, Zipper answers
that his daddy was an electric eel and mommy was a
great white.
Zipper has noticably longer and red hair, instead of blonde
or dark brown as in the cartoon.
The song "Only The Beginning" is called "In The Beginning".
There's a brunette Starlight Girl named Jacqueline Houghton
called "Jack", a blonde called Dizzy, a Mary, Janet,
Clare, and a Sue.
After being asked by a Starlight
Girl, Rio replies that he never really thought about
that Jem and Jerrica look alike, contrary to the
episode "Broadway Magic" of the cartoon which takes
place before this story, and was released on video in the UK.
It's mentioned that not long after
Jerrica's father's funeral, Rio swore that he would
love Jerrica for ever, although that was never seen in
the cartoon.
The Holograms, including Raya, still live in Starlight House. Raya never
even saw that house in the cartoon.
Starlight House is accidentaly set on fire by Zipper in the middle of the night after
Eric asked him to steal some backing tapes, but the
house is saved.
Stormer gives the Holograms the new nickname "Horrorgrams".
The song "It Depends On The Mood I'm In" gets a slightly
different title "Depends On The Mood I'm In".
Jerrica and Jem and the Holograms get another nickname by
Pizzazz, "Miss High and Mighty Jam and her precious little Marshmallowgrams".
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Jem (UK), 1986/1987 by London Editions Magazines (Egmont):
In the comics, Eric still owns half of Starlight Music, the Misfits are signed, and Jerrica
and Eric are partners promoting the rival groups, which places the stories inbetween the
first cartoon episode "The Beginning" and the second "Disaster", although they sing songs
from later episodes of the five parter. Since Eric already owns half of Starlight Music here,
it's instead Starlight House he wants, apparently to sell the land. The reason they decided to
write it as Eric still owned half Starlight Music was probably because there was no continuation
to the series yet, no way for the Misfits to market themselves, no Misfits Music for Eric and the
Misfits yet.
Jem and the Holograms sometimes sing songs which are actually names of doll fashions.
Many times the characters wear the wrong outfits according to the cartoon.
Jerrica has to have a make-up box with her to strengthen the signal from Synergy while in
another country.
Stormer has her flower on the wrong side according to the cartoon, but the right side
according to the dolls.
The Starlight girls look very different from the cartoon, and usually it's completely different
girls with other names.
The story writers really seemed to like using the character Eric Raymond alot, and many of the
stories were built around Eric causing trouble for the Holograms, and somehow it all turns to their
advantage by luck.
An old singer-songwriter gets kicked out of Starlight Music by Eric Raymond when he fails to
provide modern enough songs. After Eric sabotages Jem and the Holograms' concert, Jerrica gets
an idea how to help Melvyn.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric, Zipper, Melvyn Megastar (old
singer-songwriter who used to work for Starlight Music, owner of Sunnyside Home).
International:
Funny notes:
Eric says a line from the first episode of the cartoon "This is a business, not a charity.",
also to Jerrica, but in a slightly different situation.
The Misfits throw dart at a picture of Jem, like they do in the cartoon episode Britrock.
Interesting if that episode had been released by the time this comic was made, and inspired
it. But then the comics would probably have been more accuarate in other ways. That episode was
released in the UK though. But the Misfits also throw dart in an earlier cartoon episode
"Intrigue At The Indy 500" but at Erics picture.
Zipper doesn't look alot like in the cartoon, with his different hairstyle and brighter
blonde hair, maybe that's why Rio nor Jerrica recognise him. But then again they weren't
very familiar with him early in the cartoon.
A jamming device is used to distort the music for the Holograms. This might have been
influenced by the device the doll Clash was said to come with.
Aja can play flute, she infact owns one and performs with the Holograms on it, but only
for a special reason.
Jerrica goes on stage instead of Jem, when Synergy's signal doesn't work. But she
performs the songs of the singer-songwriter Melvyn.
Jem sings the song "Only The Beginning".
Rio has managed to sign Jem and the Holograms up for a world tour, but the downside is that
the Misfits are coming along, and Eric plans to have them take over.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Synergy, The Misfits, Eric, Starlight Girls,
J. Smith (judicial procurator, apparently the man who runs Starlight House), Jocelyn
(Eric's henchman), Adrian (Eric's henchman).
International:
Funny notes:
Jerrica has to check with Synergy if she can make a hologram appear in such a distance as
another country. This was never considered in the cartoon.
Synergy tells Jerrica that her father prepared Synergy for everything. So Jerrica gets a
make-up case, in shape of a heart, which will boost the power of her earring projectors anywhere
in the world.
Pizzazz calls Eric "darling".
Roxy thinks Rio is gorgeous.
Roxy steals a lighter from Eric. Eric smokes. Which he never does in the cartoon.
Jem sings and plays keyboard to a song called "Let's Rock This Town".
Eric has connections in England.
Eric Raymond and the Misfits have spread rumors that Jem and the Holograms have
bribed disc jockeys to play their music instead of the Misfits. Even Lindsey
Pierce buys the story. The result is that all disc jockeys stop playing the
Holograms in fear that they will come across as bribed, and all the Holograms'
appearances are canceled.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Lindsey Pierce.
International:
Funny notes:
Lindsey Pierce is in this story, but she has different look, looking more like she
did in the first five episodes. She is said to be the most popular presenter on TV.
Here she isn't a friend of the Holograms though, as she takes the Misfits side.
The outfits the Misfits wear are switched around. This isn't the only example of this.
Here Pizzazz wears Stormer's Makin' Mischief, Roxy is wearing Pizzazz'
Just Misbehavin', and Stormer is wearing Roxy's Let The Music Play.
Pizzazz says Eric changed his name from "Horace Higginbotton", because "Eric Raymond"
sounded better.
Eric doesn't like birds.
Jem sings a song with the lines "...up rockin...", which is a doll fashion
mistaken for a song.
Samples:
Jem is in London for a press conference, but a reporter is getting close to finding
out Jem's real identity, and Eric tries to threaten the reporter to do a little extra
dirty work for him.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Nigel Carruthers (reporter from
London Radio), Sapphire Carruthers (wife of Nigel).
International:
Funny notes:
The Holograms are not included in this story, even though Jem and the Misfits are.
Buckingham Palace is mentioned.
There's a blooper, when Jem is about to change back to Jerrica for the last time,
right before she does, she suddenly has her original Jem outfit instead of what she
was wearing.
Eric hired an actress to play Jem and give her bad publicity, at the same time he also
hired a private detective to find out who Jem really is.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Meryl Murda
(impressionist), Ace Malone (private detective).
International:
Funny notes:
Eric Raymond hires a private detective named Ace Malone, who looks like Manny Malone
from the cartoon. Eric says he was the cheapest he could find in the yellow pages.
Blooper, Jem gets blonde hair in one picture.
The real life actress Elizabeth Taylor is mentioned.
As usual, Eric gets irritated on the sparrows outside his window.
Eric Raymond pay some people to have Jerrica kidnapped on the Holograms' tour to Paris,
and they leave a note for Rio requesting Jem to come to the Eiffel tower alone.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Eric Raymond, Marcel (kidnapper).
International:
Funny notes:
Rio confronts Jem about her real identity. She tells Rio it's important to keep it a secret,
for his sake, and the
Holograms aswell as to herself. And Rio realizes there's something really familiar
about her, as if he knew her other self.
The kidnappers investigate Jerrica's earrings and can tell just by looking at them that
they are some sort of electrical gadgets.
Kimber dresses out as Jem.
Eric gets kidnapped.
Christmas is approaching, and both the Holograms and the Misfits are concerned about
getting the number one Christmas hit, especially the Misfits. When Eric finds out
where the Holograms plan to film their new video, in a country mansion he thinks of a plan.
On their way to the mansion, spooky things start happening.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Maxamillion Snoad
(mentioned only), Stan, Jack, Art.
International:
Funny notes:
Eric calls the Misfits "my little alley cats" and "kittens".
Paul Macartney is mentioned.
The Ghostbusters are mentioned.
The Misfits each wear a differently colored version of "Just Misbehavin'".
Jem wears Shana's outfit "Music Is Magic".
Kimber and Shana play guitar, while Aja plays keyboard.
Jem and the Holograms and Rio are in Paris, and are contacted by some men who say they've kidnapped
Eric Raymond. To protect Jem and the Holograms, Rio decides to pay the kidnappers himself. Jerrica,
having the help of Synergy, decides to disguise herself as an old lady and sneak along. The
situation has changed though since Eric has managed to bargain with his kidnappers.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Eric, kidnapper #1 kidnapper #2, police #1,
police #2.
International:
Funny notes:
We get to see the Arc De Triomphe in Paris, which plays a part in the story.
Rio says to Jerrica that Jem is fun and beautiful, but when Jerrica is around, every other
girls is invisible.
The Jem van gets stuck in the middle of nowhere, but as luck has it a circus has
camped nearby, and the Holograms get unexpected help by an elephant. As thanks they promise to
perform at a charity circus show, but the Misfits find out and decide to ruin the show
dressed out as clowns.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric,
Starlight girls, Don Wesson (son of circus owners), Lotus Maxamillion (busniessman).
International:
Funny notes:
According to Stormer, Jem and the Holograms are always superb on stage.
Apparently, animals, or atleast elephants can see right through holographic disguises like Jem's.
The Holograms are called "Horrorgrams" by Stormer.
Jem and the Holograms get offered roles in the latest movie by director Luigi
Bertolini, and they're invited to his villa in Capri. But when Jem loses her
Jemstar earrings and turn back into Jerrica, Jerrica gets suspected of abducting
Jem.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Luigi Bertolini
(film director), Inspector Rossi.
International:
Funny notes:
Blooper: Roxy gets red hair for a picture.
Kimber uses the Jemstar earrings to become Jem. This is the second time in the comics that
Kimber dresses out as Jem.
Stormer is barely seen in this story.
It's wintertime and Jerrica and the others don't have anything booked, and have trouble
paying their debts and keep Starlight House running. But Rio manages to book
them on a new music show called "Rock On". The downside is that they won't earn anything
on performing, more than publicity, and also the Misfits are performing. And the Misfits
do their best to keep Jem and the Holograms from getting there.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms. The Misfits, Rio, Eric Raymond, Ray "Woody" Peckitt
(famous country music singer), Jill Jones (hostess of TV-show "Rock On"), Jayne Peckitt
(daughter of Ray), Wendy (Starlight girl).
International:
Funny notes:
Jem and the Holograms sing "Like A Dream".
This story has a similar scene as the cartoon episode "Frame Up".
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms. The Misfits, Rio, Eric Raymond,
International:
Funny notes:
Eric bought up all the debts of Starlight House, so he will have a hold over Jerrica.
He demands all the debt to be paid within 24 hours, or that Jerrica promises to
disband the Holograms. Jerrica comes up with the plan to have Rio pose as a Texan
oil dealer, who wants to buy her part of Starlight Music and make some big changes.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Synergy, Emmett
Benton, employees at Starlight Music.
International:
Funny notes:
In a flashback we see that Emmett Benton told Jerrica "Always remember how fortunate
you are, Jerrica. You must try to help others who aren't as well off as you...".
This is one of the few times we get to see Christmas tree in a Jem book, which
we never see in the cartoon, because there was no christmas episode.
Pizzazz calls Eric "Boss-man", and Eric calls Pizzazz "cat".
Synergy can trace people by letting someone who loves them concentrate on them
really hard. This is funny because they already had an advanced computer as Synergy,
and still needed to use magic as a solution for the story.
Jem and the Holograms have arrived in Cairo for their world tour, where Rio meets an
old college friend who takes them along for a boat trip to do some filming for a TV-film,
and the Misfits tag along to steal the spotlight. Eric threatens an old
friend who works at a museum into helping him frame Jem and the Holograms for stealing
some old statues he plans to plant in their suitcases.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Mustapha (A TV producer
in Egypt, and old collegefriend of Rio), Ahmed (museum guard in Egypt, and old friend of
Eric).
International:
Funny notes:
The title of the song "Here Comes Trouble" is mentioned, but probably not on purpose.
Roxy is a very good swimmer.
Roxy is afraid of crocodiles, snakes, and camels.
Synergy can project light through the Jemstar earrings, so bright that people can't
see anything.
Jem and the Holograms have promised to appear at the open house day at Starlight Music. At the
same time, Eric has booked them for a performance in the city Rockville. As loyal as Jem and the
Holograms are to their fans, they decide to do both, but Eric plans to make their trip there
quite dangerous, to replace them with the Misfits.
Characters: Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, the Misfits,
Eric Raymond, Wilbur (Eric's thug in Rockville, brother of Orville), Orville (Eric's thug in Rockville,
brother of Wilbur).
International:
Funny notes:
Jem and the Holograms sing the line "Rock Country", which is not a song in the cartoon,
but the name of a fashion in the doll line.
Jem and the Holograms have arrived in Calcutta on their world tour. Jem agrees to take part in a
film to raise money for Unicef. Someone happens to see when Jerrica changes into Jem, and starts
bribing her.
Characters: Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Eric Raymond,
Dr. Sato (of Unicef), Charles Jackson (of Unicef).
International:
Funny notes:
Someone sees Jerrica change into Jem.
Jem gets the question about her real name, and happily answers that she prefers her private life
and that there are also other reasons she doesn't want to reveal her identity, yet.
At the last stop of their world tour, Jem and the Holograms arrive in Sydney, where everyone
seems to ignore them in favour for the Misfits. It turns out Eric has been manipulating the
records released there.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond.
International:
Funny notes:
Jerrica is willing to risk losing Starlight House on a bet, Rio tries to talk her out of it.
In the cartoon she would never had done anything like this.
It's award night and Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are both nominated in the
Annual Starlight Music Awards in the category "Best Band of the Year". Part of the
entertainment is a hypnotist, which Eric decide to use for another trick on Jem and the
Holograms.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Synergy, The Misfits, Eric Raymond,
Dr. M. Stromm (the greatest hypnotist in the world).
International:
Funny notes:
Stormer tells Pizzazz she is a fool and is ruining their image.
There's a band called "the Outcasts".
Pizzazz calls Eric "Boss man".
Jerrica can't make a decision at Starlight Music without consulting Rio.
The Misfits make an entrance on stage on motorcycles.
The Misfits sing a song with the line "Just misbehavin'... we're just misbehavin'..."
which is the title of a Misfits outfit from the doll line, which apparently was
mistaken for a Misfits song.
Jem and the Holograms are invited to be the special guest artists at this years spring
fashion show in Paris. In Paris Jerrica receives a mysterious letter written in French.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Madame Heather Bilbey (the most famous dress designer in the world),
Elizabeth Russell (owner of a British fashion house), Elizabeth Russell's butler.
International:
Funny notes:
This is the first time ever Jem and the Holograms go to Paris, atleast Kimber.
Jerrica studied hard in school, and she studied French.
Rio says the line "Truly Outrageous".
Eric Raymond manages to get the Misfits booked on the opening night of the new entertainment
centre, instead of Jem and the Holograms. A new girl arrives at Starlight house, a troublemaker
who prefers the Misfits.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Starlight House warden, Julie.
International:
Funny notes:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms don't live at the Starlight House, only the Starlight girls do.
There's a new Starlight girl named Julie, she gets her own room. She is a fan of the Misfits,
but not of the Holograms.
There's a warden at Starlight house, who has an office there. She is very stricly dressed and
wears a tie, and has green curly hair.
The Starlight House has two cement lions on the sides of the stairs at the entrance.
Jem and the Holograms are booked by Eric at a club called the Poco Club.
In England it's apparently considered a good gig to perform at the opening of a mall, even
for a big act like Jem and the Holograms.
There's a Misfits song with the line "...our music's better..." perhaps referring to the
Jem theme and the line "our songs are better".
Jem and the Holograms are taking part in the opening of a new gym. When the Misfits manage to
crash the party and ruin Jerrica's business deals, Jem and the Holograms manage to make a valuable
acquaintance instead.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Mr. Van Der Goot
(of Van Der Goot Sportswear), Crystal Waters (daughter of Stadium owner).
International:
Funny notes:
Kimber isn't very interested in business things like facts, figures, dates, and times.
A company called Van Der Goot Sportswear is mentioned. Dutch?
The Misfits are using the fact that they are still signed to Starlight Music, to make
bad publicity for Jerrica.
Aja says the line "Truly Outrageous".
Rio makes a business deal for Starlight Music, even though Jerrica objects at first.
The Holograms make Jerrica come along jogging, which she apparently never usually does.
Apparently there's a shower in Jerrica's office.
Shana's skincolor is much darker on one page.
Shana takes the mike and sings instead of Jem.
Jerrica is left with a dog to take care of, which she doesn't want, and Eric has a suggestion to
make Starlight Music more priftable, which involves selling Starlight House.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Eric, Starlight girls, Alison (new Starlight girl),
Mrs. Carter (an old lady).
International:
Funny notes:
The line "and he got down to business" is used, perhaps referring to the song
"Gettin' Down To Business", and Jerrica happens to be wearing that specific
outfit with the same name in that scene.
There's a new Starlight girl named "Alison".
Mrs. Bailey is not around, instead there's a "Mrs. Carter".
Eric has a big luxurious house, much bigger than in the cartoon, and he has pictures
of himself on the walls.
Eric buys a chain of record shops so that Starlight Music will
be able to control the sale of their records. He manages to
get Rio to help him promote the stores and the Misfits, by
tricking Rio that Jerrica has been two-timing him.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond.
International:
Funny notes:
Eric, who still owns half of Starlight Music, has bought the Priceright
record shops, and renamed them "Starlight Record Shops".
Rio seems to respect Eric and calls him "Mr. Raymond".
The Starlight girls are invited to perform at a musical. But the producer is given a
hard time by the previous producer who is determined to get revenge for being fired,
and takes help from Eric to put up a Misfits gig the same evening.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, the Starlight Girls,
Jill Jones, Bryan Brayson.
International:
Funny notes:
The Starlight girls look very different, but perhaps Ba Nee can be recognized a bit.
There's a newspaper called "Daily Herald".
Roxy speaks the line "How does it feel", which is the title of a Misfits song.
Jem and Eric are both invited to be judges on a talent show. They both discover a
talented singer-songwriter, but Eric plans to sign her to Starlight Music with a contract
that will only allow her to write songs for the Misfits.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Herman Harper
(host of Talent Tonight), Sapphire Jewel (musical editor of Gloss Magazine and chat show
hostess), Sarah Marks (singer-songwriter who won Talent Tonight).
International:
Funny notes:
There's a magazine called "Gloss".
Synergy is located somewhere called "Synergy's secret base".
Eric decides to turn the good publicity Jem and the Holograms get for Starlight House, into bad
publicity by sabotaging their visit with the Starlight girls to a water park.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Synergy, Eric Raymond, Janie (Starlight girl),
Louise (Starlight girl), Amanda (Starlight girl).
International:
Funny notes:
There's a Starlight girl named "Janie", who is a good climber, and another one named "Louise", and
another one named "Amanda".
The song lyrics to the song "Only The Beginning" are different and go "Only the beginning... everything
will...".
Jerrica sees Eric Raymond's secretary sneaking around, and finds a letter with an invitation for Jem
and the Holograms to be one of the country's representatives in the Worldavision Music Contest. But it turns
out Eric changed the date on the letter, so the Misfits would win.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond's secretary.
International:
Funny notes:
Jem and the Holograms take part in a music contest called "Worldavision" which probably refers to
the European song contest called "Eurovision Song Contest".
Jem and the Holograms sing a mistaken lyric in the song "Only The Beginning", "...in the beginning".
Rio has been taking lessons for his own helicopter pilot's licence. Similar to the cartoon where
he flies his own airplane.
Rio fixes a gig for Jem and the Holograms at the opening night of a hotel in Canada, called Wonderland,
which is a completely computerized hi-tech playground for the rich and famous. Eric realizes their appearance
at the hotel is worth alot of publicity, and decides to come along with the Misfits to put the computer out of
action.
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Synergy, The Misfits, Eric Raymond, Johnny Dooley (owner of
Wonderland hotel in Canada), Warren Worthington III (guest at wonderland hotel),
Scott (guest at wonderland hotel), Bobby (guest at wonderland hotel), Hank (chef at Wonderland hotel).
International:
Funny notes:
There's a massive computer called Cerebro, controlling everthing at the high-tech hotel, Jem introduced
Synergy to Cerebro. Cerebro turns out to be slightly smarter than Synergy.
Stormer finally shows a sign of being the nice Misfits, when she wants to make sure no one
gets hurt by Eric's schemes.
Characters:
International:
Funny notes:
Characters:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, The Misfits, Eric Raymond.
International:
Funny notes:
Characters:
International:
Funny notes:
Comics (Holland):
[Information by Martijn and jemboyholland]
Contain the same stories as the UK comics, and all stories are in the same order.
Covers drawn by Italian artists.
An advertisement was
included inside and on the back, for Jem stickers and Billy's juice.
Magazines (Italy):
Jem (Mexico), 1988 by ViD Editorial:
Eric smokes, which I guess is a way of making him look scarier.
Rio has brown hair.
The building of Starlight Music looks very different, and isn't entirely covered with glass.
Jerrica wears another dress when going to Starlight Music for the first time, she wears the
"Like A Dream" fashion.
The Misfits come driving in on regular motorcycles when they enter Eric's office at Starlight
Music.
Stormer is misspelled as "Stromer".
Aja is the one who shows Jerrica the box that arrived with the earrings, instead of Kimber.
Synergy appears as an image in the mirror of the desk in Jerrica's bedroom.
Instead of going to the drive-in, all that stuff appears right there in Starlight House.
Jem has pink and blonde hair.
Jem projects a hologram of a tiger.
Jerrica wears Jem's original outfit.
Rio wears his doll outfit.
The Jemstar earrings are shaped as regular stars.
Stormer has some unknown earrings.
Jem has pink and blonde hair.
Rio is beaten so bad he's got blood in his face (blood in Jem, never happened before right?).
On one page Jem's original dress is cut and doesn't cover over her shoulders.
Jem projects a hologram of a monster-Pizzazz.
A 24 pages collaboration between some of Hasbro's most known or new toylines like Candy Land, Stretch Armstrong, The Micronauts, Battleship Galaxies, The Action Man, M.A.S.K, Jem, Transformers, Inhumanoids, GI JOE. Synergy plays a big role.
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Das Mädchen Jem (Germany), by Bastei:
Comics (Holland), 1986 by Francis Schenk Promotions:
Jem Magazine (Italy), 1987-1988 by Panini:
Jem Unit:E, 2011 by Hasbro:
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Coloring pages, and other activites such as mazes, dot to dot, paper dolls,
spot the difference, word games. Some of them even contain simple stories.
Of course, some features like these appear in the comics and other books aswell.
Coloring / Activitybooks, by Golden:
Shares som pages with both the "Deluxe Color/Activity Book".
Shana plays guitar instead of drums.
Rio drives the Rockin' Roadster, which never happened in the cartoon.
Shana is playing guitar instead of drums.
The Holograms are very clearly featured with their main interests, Kimber = writing songs,
Aja, Working out, Shana designing clothes.
There are some song lyrics of a new Jem and the Holograms song "I live life in the fast lane,
and gaze through windowpanes, there's little time in a day, ...we may, we'll stroll down
dream street, and start kickin' the upbeat, I love the glitter and lights, but sometimes it's
a lonely night, I can see you in the rain, ... train, we'll stroll down dream street, and
start kickin' the upbeat".
Starlight House, Starlight Drive-in, Misfits' House, Rockin' Roadster, Starlight Express,
and the Misfits van is featured.
The Misfits sneak into Starlight House.
Roxy can touch a hologram of Jem, which is not over Jerrica's body.
Stormer finds Synergy at Starlight Drive-in.
The Starlight Drive-in, School, Rockin' Roadster (mentioned as Jerrica's car), and
Stormer's guitar-shaped motorcycle is featured.
Shares several pages with "A Big Color/Activity Book".
Terri has a friend called "Amy Nelson".
Has a story similar to the episode "In Stitches".
The new line of Jem and the Holograms fashions by Danielle and Shana takes the world by
storm.
Rio has booked a gig for Jem and the Holograms.
The Misfits van, the Rockin' Roadster and Rio's van are featured.
Eric is surfing at the beach.
When Pizzazz steals Rio away on the dancefloor, Jerrica projects a hologram of an old man's
face over Rio's face.
Rio calls himself good looking.
Roxy reads a magazine called "Bizarre".
Jerrica projects seaweed all over Pizzazz when she gets out of a pool.
Synergy projects a hologram of Jem over Pizzazz's body.
Synergy has some kind of effect that is able to blow air, and not out of the computer but
out of her hologram shape.
Very good at portraying the characters after their personalities: Rio dreams about both Jerrica and
Jem, Kimber writes the songs, Aja likes exercise, Shana designs the fashions with Danielle.
Books: Äventyr och Pyssel, 1987 by Richters (Sweden): Printed in Finland. The story takes place while the Jem and the Holograms still live in Starlight House, Eric still owns half of Starlight Music and has the Misfits signed. The same as the ones released in the UK, but translated to Swedish and released by a Swedish company. Also available was a bigger dark blue colorbook, probably the same or similar to the US ones.
It's mentioned that Jerrica has an office in the Starlight House.
A Swedish version of the phrase "Truly Outrageous" is used,
"Jem är helt fantastisk" ("Jem is completely fantastic"), different
from the one in the cartoon.
Stormer says that she
likes Rio and calls him cute, when talking to the other Misfits.
Rio's last name is spelt "Pachecho".
While never brougth up in the cartoon, it's mentioned that Rio lives in an
apartment and has a porter (so not in the Starlight Mansion).
Other (Italy):
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Color / Activity books, by World (UK):
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There were three real Jem sticker albums released, and also other kind of stickers.
Stickers, 1987 by Introduct (Holland):
[Information and pictures by Maaike]
Clash actually uses her distortion modulator. But Jerrica puts on some
special micro-chips to her earrings to deflect Clash's signals.
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Stickers, 1986 by Diamond:
Stickers, by Panini:
Other:
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Books (Italy):
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