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Post by Steve Austin on Jun 6, 2015 13:50:58 GMT
Anyone remember this comic from the 70's/80's?:
I used to get it every week. Eventually it merged with Victor in the 80's and then ceased circulation. I started collecting them again recently. I loved comics growing up and got loads: The Beano, The Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Tiger, Topper, Victor, Warlord, Cor, The Beezer, Jackpot, Hotspur, Buster, Look In and the Commando series plus more I cannot remember.
Anyone else into their comics when younger? Funnily enough, I never read books these days but I always had a comic on the go. Never won any of the competitions either & I must have entered 100's
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Jun 7, 2015 0:02:32 GMT
Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 7, 2015 0:02:32 GMT
We used to get The Dandy and The Beano, and a friend of mine a few doors down used to get The Beezer and Whizzer and Chips, so we'd swap each week.
I also remember Topper and Look In but the others you mention don't ring many bells with me. I was never into footie so some of them wouldn't have been my choice anyway.
Sam.
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Jun 7, 2015 7:08:27 GMT
Post by Gene Hunt on Jun 7, 2015 7:08:27 GMT
Yes. I used to have The Dandy, The Beano and sometimes The Beezer. Some years later I used to get Viz on a regular basis
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Jun 7, 2015 8:48:04 GMT
Post by Bomber on Jun 7, 2015 8:48:04 GMT
I still subscribe to Viz now.
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Jun 7, 2015 9:17:43 GMT
Post by Steve Austin on Jun 7, 2015 9:17:43 GMT
I still subscribe to Viz now. Me too. The earlier ones are the best (jellyhead, Paul Whicker The Tall Vicar)but some of the letters and top tips still make me laugh. Favourite comic strip for me from Viz is The Vibrating Bum Faced Goats or Nude Motorcycle Girl, don't write 'em like that anymore
Apart from comics for very young kids such as Bob The Builder and Thomas The Tank Engine etc, there doesn't seem to be the variety anymore and is another example of the loss of shared memory between the generations, just like the rec playgrounds which are nothing like they used to be. For all of their modernity, I do think kids these days have missed out.
Ah well, their loss
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Jun 7, 2015 15:28:30 GMT
Post by Vienna on Jun 7, 2015 15:28:30 GMT
I used to have the Beano, though occasionally I bought the Dandy. For me it was always the comic strip about 'Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher' which I enjoyed most. I seemed to remember Dennis getting the slipper off his dad for bad behaviour, in the days when corporal punishment was still used in schools!
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Post by Windy Miller on Jun 7, 2015 19:16:46 GMT
I used to get The Beano. I liked The Numskulls. The concept that a bunch of tiny people are inside your head and controlling everything you do, and cocking it up, was hilarious. Best comic characters were The Broons and Oor Wullie, who featured in The Sunday Post's Merry Mac's Fun Parade :- How can ye no find that funny ?
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Post by Steve Austin on Jun 7, 2015 20:17:56 GMT
Jings, help ma boab Windy!
I used to get the Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals every Christmas, they alternated every year. Old ones are worth some money now.
Braw!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 7, 2015 21:41:08 GMT
I remember a number of the classic strips: Billy Whizz, Desperate Dan (can't think of him without thinking of Yosser Hughes!), Korky the cat, Minnie The Minx, and The Bash Street Kids, but one they couldn't get away with now was in The Dandy and here it is (I kid you not!):
I don't think they could get away with that today in a normal comic though I could see it getting in to Viz.
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Jun 7, 2015 21:58:21 GMT
Post by Steve Austin on Jun 7, 2015 21:58:21 GMT
I don't remember that one Sam, I guess that story ran out of legs
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