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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 5, 2020 14:10:57 GMT
Say up to about age 13/14
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 5, 2020 14:14:20 GMT
So many...
Whizzer and Chips
Cor!
Roy of the Rovers
Tiger
Look In
Jackie (courtesy of sister)
Pink (courtesy of sister)
Disco 45
During the Summer holidays we'd drive up to Manchester from London to see my Mum's parents - she'd get a few of the Summer Specials for the journey. A Summer Special was the source of incredible excitement. Til we'd read em obviously
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Post by personunknown on Sept 5, 2020 14:46:46 GMT
A few of those above. Summer holidays I'd buy those Spitfire/Action comic booklets.
" Eat lead, Fritz!"
" Gott un himmel, Britishers, ach, scweinhund..."
" And here's a pineapple* for you as well, Krauthead!"
Good wholesome fun.
* hand grenade
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Post by johnnyoi on Sept 5, 2020 15:22:03 GMT
Also The Beano
The Beezer
Countdown
The Topper
Buster
My all time favourites though were Marvel comics.DC were ok but Marvel were the best.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 5, 2020 16:04:31 GMT
Also The Beano The Beezer Countdown The Topper Buster My all time favourites though were Marvel comics. DC were ok but Marvel were the best. I'd happily read any of those Johnny
Beezer, Beano, Dandy etc always seemed weirdly old fashion though
My son was a Beano reader in the 2000s. Not much has changed even now, apart from the paper quality and a few of the strips
I'd love to be able to say I embraced the American Marvel comics as a kid but I didn't, though do remember seeing them in my local newsagent. They were inside celophane so no chance of a try before you buy. That said, I do remember Marvel bringing out UK comics that were in black and white For a period I got a Dracula comic by Marvel called Dracula Lives. Anyone remember it? It was pretty good as I recall This would have been part of my obsession with Hammer Horror and would have all fed in to a sense of vampires being vaguely erotic I'm sure I'm not the only one who harbours fond memories of, for example, Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers
From time to time I'd buy one of those weird WW2 comics with stereotypical Japs and Nazis in them - and US marines quoting lines like "Eat lead Fritz"
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Post by zeopold on Sept 5, 2020 16:16:16 GMT
When I was 9 me and my mate Trev who was also into the latest sounds used to get 'Jackie' from time to time cos there were loads of pictures of Marc, David, etc in it for our bedroom walls
Some of the other lads called us 'poofs' but I couldn't help but point out that they were buying mags like 'Shoot' which were full of pictures of blokes in shorts
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 5, 2020 16:22:37 GMT
When I was 9 me and my mate Trev who was also into the latest sounds used to get 'Jackie' from time to time cos there were loads of pictures of Marc, David, etc in it for our bedroom walls Some of the other lads called us 'poofs' but I couldn't help but point out that they were buying 'Shoot' which was full of pictures of blokes in shorts Loved it Zeo I had access to Jackie via my sister Got to say I loved it, including insights into the tortured psyches of their readership via the Cathy and Claire problem page One young person wrote in to complain about her boyfriend's habit of putting his crash helmet on after he woke up to flatten down his bed head hair. She felt this was perhaps a bit effete. As I recall Cathy and Claire agreed. Ditch the nancy boy they advised. Fuck knows what they'd make of today's non-binary world |
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Post by johnnyoi on Sept 5, 2020 17:41:51 GMT
Also The Beano The Beezer Countdown The Topper Buster My all time favourites though were Marvel comics. DC were ok but Marvel were the best. I'd happily read any of those Johnny
Beezer, Beano, Dandy etc always seemed weirdly old fashion though
My son was a Beano reader in the 2000s. Not much has changed even now, apart from the paper quality and a few of the strips
I'd love to be able to say I embraced the American Marvel comics as a kid but I didn't, though do remember seeing them in my local newsagent. They were inside celophane so no chance of a try before you buy. That said, I do remember Marvel bringing out UK comics that were in black and white For a period I got a Dracula comic by Marvel called Dracula Lives. Anyone remember it? It was pretty good as I recall This would have been part of my obsession with Hammer Horror and would have all fed in to a sense of vampires being vaguely erotic I'm sure I'm not the only one who harbours fond memories of, for example, Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers
From time to time I'd buy one of those weird WW2 comics with stereotypical Japs and Nazis in them - and US marines quoting lines like "Eat lead Fritz"
Yeah I remember that.There was also “Master of Kung fu” that cashed in on the Kung fu fad. |
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Post by zeopold on Sept 5, 2020 18:05:00 GMT
I read those war comics occasionally. The 'Jerries' said 'Donner und Blitzen', and the 'Japs' said 'AIEEEE!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 21:00:31 GMT
A few of those above. Summer holidays I'd buy those Spitfire/Action comic booklets. " Eat lead, Fritz!" " Gott un himmel, Britishers, ach, scweinhund..." " And here's a pineapple* for you as well, Krauthead!" Good wholesome fun. * hand grenade I used to buy all those war comics including Battle Picture Weekly, Warlord, the Commando comics etc. Charleys War, Johnny Red, Darkies Mob, The Sarge. All great reads. I'm pretty anti militaristic but but writers like Pat Mills always gave them a wee bit of a left wing edge. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 21:04:35 GMT
There was also the Victor which contained the legendary Alf Tupper-The Tough of the Track.
Also in the Victor was a football strip called Gorgeous Gus about the posh guy who was driven to the games in a Roller by his butler and only came on in the last 5 minutes if his team were getting beat😂
Classic nonsense.
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Post by jsm on Sept 8, 2020 4:05:59 GMT
The Phantom. Ghost Who Walks. Cannot Die.
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Post by stu77 on Oct 18, 2020 12:58:47 GMT
Shoot (league ladders!!)
Scoop (early 80s sports magazine)
Look In (once in a blue moon)
Beano
Roy of the Rovers (got hundreds of issues on a disc from eBay last year, I've seen Warlord and Valiant on there too)
Smash Hits
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 18, 2020 13:06:01 GMT
Roy of the Rovers (got hundreds of issues on a disc from eBay last year, I've seen Warlord and Valiant on there too) How do you read them Stu? On your screen? |
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Post by stu77 on Oct 18, 2020 14:52:20 GMT
Roy of the Rovers (got hundreds of issues on a disc from eBay last year, I've seen Warlord and Valiant on there too) How do you read them Stu? On your screen? On my PC. |
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