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Post by Sparky on Apr 13, 2021 6:21:13 GMT
A lot of the magazines - Cosmopolitan, Womens Own, Country Life and all that I only ever saw in a Doctors waiting room - and they tended to be about 4 years old, with the crosswords (badly) completed and the coupons all cut out.
On one Dentist visit, there was a late 70s magazine aimed aged Girls aged around 10-15 (can't remember what it was called), though my brother picked it up and 'modified' (with a Biro) the photo love story strip.
Then we discovered "Viz"....
There was a very short lived Viz style magazine that appeared on shelves around 1993/4 - called "Smut" - it was an obvious rip off of "Viz" - but much much cruder - and seemed to think that the humour worked by having every character say the word f**k twice in every sentance - or using old "Doctor Doctor" jokes and having each character swear the punchline.... It seemed to last for only a few editions and then vanished.
A mate I worked with at Central was an avid reader of "Fortean Times" - which I only really read a few articles in; generally the ones written by bona fide scientists on tests and stuff they had carried out in haunted buildings (long before people in Black Hoodies ran around derelict buildings with a mobile phone in the dark screaming and posting the shite on youtube)
I haven't read Fortean Times for years.
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Post by Nightfly on Apr 13, 2021 10:43:01 GMT
There was a very short lived Viz style magazine that appeared on shelves around 1993/4 - called "Smut" - it was an obvious rip off of "Viz" - but much much cruder - and seemed to think that the humour worked by having every character say the word f**k twice in every sentance - or using old "Doctor Doctor" jokes and having each character swear the punchline....
It seemed to last for only a few editions and then vanished.
I do remember "Smut", a very poor imitation of "Viz". The only thing I recall about "Smut" is a weird strip about gang warfare, but the rival gangs were members of Take That and East 17. It wasn't particularly funny. On the subject of old papers, in the 70s we would occasionally get a weekly paper where various photos of the stars of the era would be on the front page, but just their heads ! So you would get a neck-less Mike Yarwood next to a smiling neck-less/bodyless Eric Morecambe or David Cassidy. I always thought it was Reveille or The Weekly News that had this style, but haven't been able to find any examples of such editions online. Maybe I imagined it. Always looked a bit weird to me. Also, slightly off topic, do you remember in the 70s during the summer, newspapers would send a type of mystery man each day to a seaside resort ? Carrying a copy of the newspaper would be the only clue to his identity. The Mirror had "Chalky White". If you spotted a chap with a Daily Mirror walking along Blackpool prom, or wherever he was that day, you stopped them with "You are Chalky White of the Mirror" and, if you managed to get the right guy among the several thousand blokes who were probably on the prom carrying a Daily Mirror you won a tenner, or probably got a slap if you chose the wrong one !
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 13, 2021 13:03:50 GMT
Looking up 'Smut' I came across this blog which looks at Viz clones, there were a number of them, even one supposedly aimed at a Black readership called 'Skank', though some of them look more like fanzines. Very strong language in some of the strips in case you're at work or near children. For Sweeney fans, there's a Scottish comic called 'Electric Soup'.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 13, 2021 13:47:54 GMT
Looking up 'Smut' I came across this blog which looks at Viz clones, there were a number of them, even one supposedly aimed at a Black readership called 'Skank', though some of them look more like fanzines. Very strong language in some of the strips in case you're at work or near children. For Sweeney fans, there's a Scottish comic called 'Electric Soup'.
Good find Arthur. I must admit, the title of the strip "Bank Manager in Buff with Simon Bates the Glam Rock Labrador" did tickle me to the stage I covered my computer desk in very sugary tea.... The strip itself seemed pointless.
The "Spit" magazine is a very similar style to "Smut" (typefaces / layout etc)
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Post by Cartman on May 21, 2021 13:42:16 GMT
I've got hold of a few more old car mags, Popular Motoring, all from 1978, via eBay and it's a great read. Brings back memories and it's great to read about what are now classics, when they were everywhere and in regular use.
The classifieds are great to read through, if you could just get back in time, with a couple of grand...
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