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Books
Mini World, 1986 by World:
- A Cat Called Lucky [Picture by Lucrezia's Jem collection]
- Hide And Sneak
- Keyboard Crisis
Story:
Kimber hasn't been herself recently, the others
find her playing guitar and singing some unknown songs
in the early hours of the morning, booking a
recordning studio for herself, and sneaking away for a
meeting with another record company. Rio sprained his
ankle and won't be able to set up for the evening
concert, and Eric pays the replacing road manager to
make sure that the concert does not go ahead.
Funny notes:
The head of the Starlight recording
studios is someone called Alan, and Aja likes him.
- Super Scoop Snoop
Story:
Pizzazz sees to it that Eric gets her cousin, who is a
reporter, a job in the Starlight offices to pretend to
be a secretary while she is really trying to find out
who Jem really is.
Funny notes:
While not mentioned in the cartoon,
Pizzazz has a cousin called Patti Paine who works as a
reporter. Pizzazz is called a blonde.
Little Owl Superstars, 1986 by World:
- Jem And The Brat
The story description inside says "Donna Maddon is a
bad mannered brat. Somehow, she wins a kids' talent
contest and gets to meet Jem and The Holograms".
Funny notes:
One at the time Jerrica wears both versions of
her regular outfit, pink/blue striped and white/blue striped.
- Soap Opera Rockers
- The Disco-Kids
The story description inside says "Eric Raymond wants
to turn some kids out of the building used for a youth
club disco. How can Jerrica Benton and Jem stop him?"
- The Stolen Jewels [Picture by Lucrezia's Jem collection]
Annuals:
- Annual 1987
64 pages book with character descriptions of Jerrica
Benton, Jem, the Holograms, Eric Raymond, and the
Misfits. The stories "Stage Management", "Marbo The
Rock Movie", "Two-Timing", "Rockin' Roadsters". The
comic book style stories "In the Beginning" and
"Desperately Seeking Synergy".
Also pages that aren't directly about Jem, the
Horoscopes page "Starry-Eyed!", "Jem's Exercise
Routine", "Here's Looking at you" about your looks,
"Jewellery Gems" shows how you can make your own
jewelleries cheap.
Funny notes:
Rio has brown hair, Mrs. Bailey has red hair, Eric's
secretary has purple hair, Eric has a bit of white
hair on the sides, and Howard has a moustache.
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.
- Annual 1988
64 pages book of mostly stories and character
descriptions. Starting with the page "The Beat Goes On"
there's character describtions of Jerrica and Synergy,
Jem, Kimber, Aja, Shana, Raya, Danse, Video, and Rio.
Then there's "A Message From Mr. Raymond..."
introducing the Misfits including Clash.
The stories "Night Of The Dolphins", "Queen For a Day",
"Prince Rat", "Playing with Fire", "Gold Gets Going".
The comicbook style stories "Higher And Higher!",
"Two Kinds Of Courage". And a page about how Jerrica
keeps her hair and face in shape "She's A Natural".
Funny notes:
Appears to be the only book that includes
Raya, strangely it doesn't mention Jetta aswell. 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, which would add several years to
his age. 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. 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".
Books:
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Jem was aired on the UK satellite TV channels UK Gold,
and later on The Childrens Channel. In the UK,
satellite TV is more popular than cable, so alot
of people have a small satellite dish stuck on the
side of their house. Although these channels were
broadcast to the whole Europe, the picture was
encrypted, with subscriptions only available to the
UK.
