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so what comics did you read as a kid ?

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  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,054
    Hotspur, Victor and Buster.
    Then moved onto Shoot and the little Commando books.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,832
    what comic did you read @billysboots ?
  • Ian Nightingale
    Ian Nightingale Posts: 392
    Battle & Warlord for me. I got Battle and my best mate got Warlord then swapsies
  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 935
    No mention of 'Scoop' yet. A good combination of comic strips and football posters. I think it was in 'Scoop' that I learned we had sold Paul Walsh and Paul Elliott...an early experience for me of grief.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Roy of the Rovers and 2000 AD
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,253
    Hotspur and Look and Learn.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    usetobunkin said:
    June and School Friend, Bunty,
    Womans Own and Tit-bits
    Tit-bits wasn’t a comic.  More like serious reading (or viewing)
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,735
    Girls Crystal & Bunty.
  • BassAddick
    BassAddick Posts: 73
    The Valiant, what else
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,024
    Big_Bad_World said:
    Whizzer and Chips, Buster, Beano & Viz.
    You just looked at the pictures :p
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  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,849
    I grew up in Germany as my father worked as a civilian for the US military, so we had access to all the army PXs so my early years were spent reading Batman, Archie, Caspar the Friendly Ghost. 
    My Nan sent me every issue of Look & Learn and the occasional Beano.
    On our visits to the UK I hoovered up all the Roy of the Rovers and Shoot that I could get my hands on and later at boarding school I moved on to Commando and similar stuff.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    2000AD. Rogue Trooper was my favourite.
  • WHAddick
    WHAddick Posts: 1,146
    Eagle, Victor, 2000AD...those were the days!
  • Dugdaleclass
    Dugdaleclass Posts: 554
    The Victor was my number one read (still got the annuals). Also liked The Valiant and The Hotspur.

    Most DC comics too. Still have my Sgt Rock comics which often had a second story in them by guest authors and were very original science fiction stories. 
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    Never read comics but I know Matt Mcfarlane, founder of SPAWN comics. I still have the first issue and a before-first issue (never released) comic from him somewhere in pristine condition. No idea if they are worth anything.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    edited July 2023
    Pavoren007 said:
    Two destinations for me on a Saturday AM ahead of a CAFC game from mid teens - Skinny Melinks in Loampit Vale Lewisham (comic shop) or some record shops in Soho.

    re former was really into DC exclusively at the time and had every Green Arrow series comic going, plus Batman, Superman, Aquaman etc. To this day, I buy any Green Arrow memorabilia I do not have, though not a huge amount of stuff released over the years - a bit niche. Just caught my imagination, as did Batman for being a human crime fighter with some special skills and bravery beyond belief. Nice thread!!
    @pavoren007, I’ve got a wholesale account with these guys
    https://noblecollection.co.uk/?s=Green+lantern+&post_type=product
    If there’s anything there are you are after, I can get it for you at wholesale prices.

    The guy who ran Skinny Melinks, Bruce, was a friend back then. His girlfriend was a drop dead beautiful redhead and you did have to wonder, nice as he was, what she was doing with him. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Blackheathen said:
    usetobunkin said:
    June and School Friend, Bunty,
    Womans Own and Tit-bits
    Tit-bits wasn’t a comic.  More like serious reading (or viewing)
    It’s a downmarket version of Hello, Grazia, etc. if memory serves; I think you’re thinking of something with a similar title. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,673
    The Beano launched 0n July 30th 1938 and celebrates its 85th anniversary this week with a special edition.



    Mike Stirling, Director of Mischief (Who wouldn't want that title?)  has put together quite an edition with bits from Stormzy, Harry Styles, David Attenborough and ...



  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    AddicksAddict s
    Blackheathen said:
    usetobunkin said:
    June and School Friend, Bunty,
    Womans Own and Tit-bits
    Tit-bits wasn’t a comic.  More like serious reading (or viewing)
    It’s a downmarket version of Hello, Grazia, etc. if memory serves; I think you’re thinking of something with a similar title. 
    Supposed to be humorous.  The tit-bits I recall from the 1950s was a girlie newspaper and eagerly read by schoolboys (and others)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    The Beano was always favourite. Also liked the Dandy.
    I remember being really chuffed when the Dandy featured Woolwich on their "My home town" page back in '63.
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  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 465
    I still have the very first issue of "Shoot".
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    AddicksAddict said:
    Pavoren007 said:
    Two destinations for me on a Saturday AM ahead of a CAFC game from mid teens - Skinny Melinks in Loampit Vale Lewisham (comic shop) or some record shops in Soho.

    re former was really into DC exclusively at the time and had every Green Arrow series comic going, plus Batman, Superman, Aquaman etc. To this day, I buy any Green Arrow memorabilia I do not have, though not a huge amount of stuff released over the years - a bit niche. Just caught my imagination, as did Batman for being a human crime fighter with some special skills and bravery beyond belief. Nice thread!!
    @pavoren007, I’ve got a wholesale account with these guys
    https://noblecollection.co.uk/?s=Green+lantern+&post_type=product
    If there’s anything there are you are after, I can get it for you at wholesale prices.

    The guy who ran Skinny Melinks, Bruce, was a friend back then. His girlfriend was a drop dead beautiful redhead and you did have to wonder, nice as he was, what she was doing with him. 
    Is that Bruce that moved to open Avalon comics on Lavendar Hill, Clapham?
    If so, my other half’s brother Mark started as a Saturday boy in Lewisham, moved with Bruce to Avalon and basically ran the shop when Bruce moved away to near Southampton.
    I have mentioned Marks knowledge of the industry somewhere on here before.
    I have no interest in comics but am astounded at what he knows.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    This may be of some interest. Mike Flanagan and Roy Race together!
  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    Roy of the Rovers
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    Beano
    Whizzer & Chips
    Buster (After W&C got folded into it)
    Roy Of The Rovers
    Gary Linekers Hotshot (before it got folded into ROTR)
    Champ
    Football Comic Libraries (Fitbas Commando sized equivalent)
    Viz
    Sweet FA
    The Onion Bag
    Batman Monthly
    Simpsons Comics

    Honorable annual mentions, from either comics gone by, or compiled stories from other punlications:

    Tiger
    Scorcher
    Score
    Shiver & Shake
    Dandy
    Oor Wullie
    The Broons
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    Oakster said:
    My dad was an artist for some of the comics listed above !!!

    We were never short of comics in our house...
    Wow! He was great!

    I always felt it was a shame that British comic artists were rarely allowed to sign their work. Whereas their U.S. counterparts were featured from the start, & seemed to be lauded far more.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,348
    southamptonaddick said:
    Hotspur, Victor and Buster.
    Then moved onto Shoot and the little Commando books.
    My staple comic read as well.
  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    Beano then 2000 AD and a few others I don't think have been mentioned:

    Dragon's Claws
    Death's Head
    The Sleaze Brothers
    Oink 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,838
    Jim Davidson

    Or is this the wrong thread?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,348
    edited July 2023
    Off_it said:
    Jim Davidson

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