More words than pictures so a compromise as I was always being told I should be reading a good book when I read comics. I still saw most of those mentioned above though!
I don't know whether you classify them as comics but Look and Learn and Finding Out were two more publications I read.
well to begin with something calle "Tv Comic" ,progressing through Beano and Dandy to the Valiant or was it Victor (it incorportaed Tiger and Hurricane) also bought beezer,topper,buster etc ...also seem to remember "whizzer and Chips"...started off football mags with Jimmy Hills football weekly
great quote about the shoot league tables ..why the hell did we ever bother ? Alas the march of progress means these meories mean little to the current younger generation
Roy Of The Rovers - 1985-1991 series culminating in THAT 'copter crash (Dad's kept them all in ring binders!) The Beano/ The Dandy Shoot! or Match magazine
Tiger & Jag. Football Family Robinson,Johnny Cougar,Skid Solo et al. Also loved the character Alf Supper-Tough of the Track. Can't remember which comic,Victor perhaps?
I thought it was 'Alf Tupper - He runs for his supper'? All the other athletes were 'toffs' whereas Alf would turn out when someone needed a winner for a small fee - to buy his favourite dish of fish and chips on the way home!
Tiger & Jag. Football Family Robinson,Johnny Cougar,Skid Solo et al. Also loved the character Alf Supper-Tough of the Track. Can't remember which comic,Victor perhaps?
I thought it was 'Alf Tupper - He runs for his supper'? All the other athletes were 'toffs' whereas Alf would turn out when someone needed a winner for a small fee - to buy his favourite dish of fish and chips on the way home!
It certainly was Alf Tupper but predictive text seemed to think otherwise!
Over the years, Beano, Dandy, Wizzer and Chips, Beezer, Goal, Shoot, Mad, Cracked, Viz, and two I don't think have been mentioned... Look In - ITV tie in magazine that had stuff about the Tomorrow People, The Kids At 47A and build your own Magpie studio cardboard cutouts, happy days..LOL. The other was Warlord, anyone else remember that?
Is my mind playing tricks on me but was there a shortlived comic/mag called the Onion Bag? And which Viz-style comic had a character called Timmy the Tampon? I can still draw him!
The Onion Bag was great, I still have the video they released! There was also a cricket based comedy fanzine called "The Cricketers Anorak" around at the same time.
Big Beano fan but sold my collection of annuals last year. Lost interest after it started featuring advertising and was printed on glossy paper. Mind you I was in my thirties by that time!
Also read Smash! and Wham!, which featured work by one of Beano's best artists after he left.
I liked the Beano and, to a lesser degree the Dandy. Had completely forgotten about TV21, but I used to like that one too - I was a big Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett fan.
Also got into the US comics - Batman and Superman mainly. Always wanted to buy the things like x-ray specs and guitars that were advertised. Also they had some pyramid selling scam thing going on where you sold seeds and gained points which you could trade for things like x-ray specs!
I liked the Beano and, to a lesser degree the Dandy. Had completely forgotten about TV21, but I used to like that one too - I was a big Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett fan.
Also got into the US comics - Batman and Superman mainly. Always wanted to buy the things like x-ray specs and guitars that were advertised. Also they had some pyramid selling scam thing going on where you sold seeds and gained points which you could trade for things like x-ray specs!
Exactly the same as you Saga with the Batman and Superman comics they had some great front covers that lured you in :-) I had forgotten about the ads, used to love looking through them, there was always a whistle ring and monkeys that grew from pellets or something and lived in water! I actually won an old Beatles guitar( the plastic thing with coloured string and their faces on the sound box) in the Beezer. I wrote in and got letter of the week. It might have been Sparky actually. Anyway, best letter my mum ever wrote!
Funny you should ask this. I used to read the Beano and got it for the first time this weekend as I was child minding. Its probably been 20 years since I've seen it and it is total rubbish rubbish rubbish.
No humour, no pranks, no bullying, and gnasher talks properly!
Remember the league tables in Shoot? You'd spend ages updating them from the Sunday paper, fiddling about with those little tabs and then your Mum would tidy your room up, knock them on the floor and you'd have to start again.
Loved them. I think I still did them when I was about 19. I kept them as a momento & only chucked them out, when I got to about 45.
Beano - best read ever (and pictures of course!) followed by the Dandy and then Tiger with Roy of the Rovers. I think Roy was going for 50 years before he hung up his boots Although he was only 30 ish in the comic. He spent another 20 or so years as a manager. Must move to Melchester very soon as it obviously holds the secret of youth. Is he still alive and kicking !!!!
Remember the league tables in Shoot? You'd spend ages updating them from the Sunday paper, fiddling about with those little tabs and then your Mum would tidy your room up, knock them on the floor and you'd have to start again.
Loved them. I think I still did them when I was about 19. I kept them as a momento & only chucked them out, when I got to about 45.
Match of the Day mag still does then, my 6 year old has them on his wall
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Match
Beano
Dandy
Eagle
Yep forgotten about the Commando Mags
Marvel comics
Beano
Dandy
Nutty (which eventually merged with Dandy)
Groo the Wanderer
Remember the Jocks and the Geordies?
More words than pictures so a compromise as I was always being told I should be reading a good book when I read comics. I still saw most of those mentioned above though!
I don't know whether you classify them as comics but Look and Learn and Finding Out were two more publications I read.
Why did people used to dump loads of soft porn in the woods?
great quote about the shoot league tables ..why the hell did we ever bother ?
Alas the march of progress means these meories mean little to the current younger generation
The Beano/ The Dandy
Shoot! or Match magazine
Really liked Look-In too.
Mind you, I was only 12 at the time........
Greatest comic of all time.
My parents let me have it as long as I read Look & Learn first. Yeh - alright Mum.
Also read Smash! and Wham!, which featured work by one of Beano's best artists after he left.
Also got into the US comics - Batman and Superman mainly. Always wanted to buy the things like x-ray specs and guitars that were advertised. Also they had some pyramid selling scam thing going on where you sold seeds and gained points which you could trade for things like x-ray specs!
I had forgotten about the ads, used to love looking through them, there was always a whistle ring and monkeys that grew from pellets or something and lived in water!
I actually won an old Beatles guitar( the plastic thing with coloured string and their faces on the sound box) in the Beezer. I wrote in and got letter of the week. It might have been Sparky actually. Anyway, best letter my mum ever wrote!
I used to read the Beano and got it for the first time this weekend as I was child minding. Its probably been 20 years since I've seen it and it is total rubbish rubbish rubbish.
No humour, no pranks, no bullying, and gnasher talks properly!
Total disappointment.