Cartman
Producer
Posts: 4,018
Online Status:
|
Post by Cartman on Mar 29, 2021 19:46:28 GMT
It went back a long way, I think it started, under that name too, in about 1880 ish
|
|
Cartman
Producer
Posts: 4,018
Online Status:
|
Post by Cartman on Mar 29, 2021 20:30:21 GMT
That reminds me of when my dad discovered a copy of Razzle in my bedroom. He was decorating & noticed it poking out from under a chest of drawers. He confronted me later & being a God fearing Christian he confiscated it. The thing is it wasn't even mine, a lad I knew at school lent it me, he was quite annoyed when he didn't get it back. In Wayne mode..... "Really Arfur, I'm surprised at you, wife's done a runner an all that..."
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Online Status:
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 13:35:14 GMT
Used to get Warlord, Victor and Viz! Used to love going paper shop n picking um up I like, and still occasionally get, Viz. My favourite character is Roger Mellie the man on the telly Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles.
|
|
|
Post by Steve Austin on Mar 30, 2021 19:41:44 GMT
I like, and still occasionally get, Viz. My favourite character is Roger Mellie the man on the telly Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles. I've been getting this since the 80's. You'll be hard pushed to find better stories than "The Vibrating Bum Faced Goats" or "Nude Motorcycle Girl" (be careful if you google that one ). "Rude Kid" and the adverts are great too. I must admit it has gone downhill since its heyday but there is still the odd gem there which makes it a worthwhile purchase.
|
|
Cartman
Producer
Posts: 4,018
Online Status:
|
Post by Cartman on Mar 30, 2021 19:48:52 GMT
Postman Plod Miserable b****** was another good one, and Dr Poo, who had difficulties finding toilets in space.
|
|
|
Post by Steve Austin on Mar 30, 2021 19:49:48 GMT
Postman Plod Miserable b****** was another good one, and Dr Poo, who had difficulties finding toilets in space. That reminds me, "Shitty Dick" is another high brow adventure into toilet humour.
|
|
Nightfly
Screenwriter
Posts: 904
Online Status:
|
Post by Nightfly on Apr 7, 2021 23:04:01 GMT
I used to occasionally get Record Mirror in the 70s. I liked the cartoons in it, by a bloke called J Edward Oliver, they were surreal, sometimes a sign saying "abolish Tuesdays" would appear, or a box with a crank handle on the side, which was never explained, and Madeline Smith used to feature too, J Edward seemed to have a major crush on her (understandably at that time!) Eventually she complained about this, so he responded by....doing a cartoon of her complaining! Wow - another J Edward Oliver fan ! I sent in a contribution to his column (Fresco the Dinosaur!) as a 13 year old in 1976 and found myself in print for the first time a few weeks later. He sent me a letter of thanks with a plastic warthog as payment ! Where he managed to get a plastic warthog from is beyond me. I don't think they were standard animals in the toy farmyard sets back then. Early last year, I developed a desire to see if I could track down the issue as my original copy had long since disappeared and found a J E O tribute site with the very edition. Weeks later I managed to secure the copy of Record Mirror from Ebay.
|
|
Sparky
Producer
Status? Would that be Credit or in Society?
Posts: 2,784
Online Status:
|
Post by Sparky on Apr 8, 2021 9:28:41 GMT
I used to like Melody Maker. That must have vanished around the late 1990s.
|
|
Cartman
Producer
Posts: 4,018
Online Status:
|
Post by Cartman on Apr 10, 2021 15:16:11 GMT
On this subject, I have just got hold of four of the old car mags I had years ago off eBay, Popular Motoring January 79 and Practical Classics, April (first issue) and September 1980 and January 1981.
I've been enjoying reading through them and remember some of the articles from when I first read them over 40 years ago!
Some of the adverts are brilliant, the prices on some of the now -classics are amazing
|
|
|
Post by Sam Tyler on Apr 12, 2021 10:44:31 GMT
Similar to you Carty I had the February 1976 edition of 'Bike' magazine that had a road test of the Kawasaki Z900A4. I kept that magazine for some years as I'd always wanted that bike - and still do! The road test opened with what was for me an iconic photo of the bike taken at night on the Royal Albert Bridge as below: I was surprised to see that 'Bike' magazine is still in circulation. The Z900s which retailed at £1300 at the time are now fetching prices of around £18k so now sadly even further out of my price range. Sam.
|
|