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Comics - what did you read?

Topmansmithy

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I used to love it when the papers arrived and inside would be my comics. Like most people I was bought up on Beano and Dandy but I had other favourites as well.
The Beano was great and my favourites were:
Bash St Kids, Dennis the Menance, Rodger the Dodger, Billy the Wizz, Lord Snooty, Minnie the minx but my favourite was General Jumbo - he had some sort of remote control on his arm and he could control all his toy soldiers- fantastic!
Dandy faves were Korky the cat, beryl the peril and desperate dan.
My sisters used to have Bunty ( I used to borrow it and read the Four Marys) - i do remember the back page having some sort of cut out dresses etc which my sister used to regularly cut out and use on some cardboard doll.
Other girly one's were Jackie -( there was always some soppy romance going on with speech bubbles over the characters in the storyline.,) I also remember other girly comics in the house, namely Judy, Tammy and Twinkle - i never read them of course!!

My favourite comic was Victor - you had Alf Tupper (Tough of the Track) , Morgyn the Mighty and Gorgeous Gus(some earl who played football - he always came on with his team 2-0 down, 2 minutes to go and scored a hat trick!!

I used to go round my friends houses and we would spend hours swapping comics and reading them.

Do you remember any of these?
Beezer, Buster, Commando comics, Hornet, Hotspur, Sparky, Topper, and Valiant.

Would love to hear your stories about comics.
 
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I was never into comics, I preferred books but when my kids were young they loved them. My daughter had Mandy delivered every week for years and we both loved it. When she was about to marry she asked me not to cancel it as she would miss it so much. After a couple of years she finally gave it up .....for twins.....she no longer had time to read.:eek::D
 
Mine was the "Eagle", with "Dan Dare", (the spaceman hero) with his sidekick Digby, in his spaceship "Anastasia", taking on the evil Mekon! And there was "Luck of The Legion" (all about legionnaires), and the scruffy cowboy "Hank"
 
I used to read the Beano and the Dandy. Used to be in the Denace the Menace club.

Although you still get the Beano in the shops, I can't help but think it doesn't really look the same anymore. Maybe a sign I'm getting old.
 
Loved them all but soon as I grew up ... got long trousers .... I moved on to Superman comics.
Absolutely loved them.
There was an old lady in an even older run down shop made of wood by the railway station which was a comic exchange ... she did a roaring trade with kids flocking round the place every afternoon at schools end.
There was a guy called Jimmy Olsen who had a watch which was a mobile phone on which he could contact Supey ... imagine that!
It even had an screen so they could see each other!
 
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Marvin said:
Mine was the "Eagle", with "Dan Dare", (the spaceman hero) with his sidekick Digby, in his spaceship "Anastasia", taking on the evil Mekon!
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Can't find it on the Tinternet, but Steve Bell the cartoonist did a great pastiche of Dan Dare, called Dan Dire: Dire was Neil Kinnock and his bluff Yorkshire sidekick, Rigby, looked suspiciously like Roy Hattersley. They faced the evil Maggon and, needless to say, kept cocking things up.... Istr that the Maggon's rallying cry was "The Market Force"!

Eeh bah goom, they don't make satire like they used to. :)
 
Mine was Jackie and later -can't for the life of me remember the name- the one with all the words of the chart hits. My brothers had Eagle
 
Mine goes back a very long time, it was called School Friend
 
I use to get the Gerry Anderson comic!
Can't remember the name, something like c21st!
 
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