Comics you read as a child.

dondo

Beano, Whizzer and Chips, Beezer plus one other that I can't remember but had a story about a football team in it (but wasn't Roy of the Rovers)

BarryBlue

I was an avid reader of comics too. I had Beano and Dandy delivered by the newsagent but any others were bought out of pocket money. At various times I read Beezer, Topper, Eagle, Victor, and TV21, a sort of Gerry Anderson-themed comic. Some of these would be swapped with mates so we made our money go further.


I also had Look & Learn delivered, prompted by my mother, and did quite enjoy the articles. As others say, it wasn't really a comic though.

tiernsee

Twinkle, Jackie, Look-in, Smash hits, 2000AD


Daughter now gets Dr Who Adventures and I do have a sneaky read of this.....

CathA

My nana bought the Dandy for me and the Beano for my sister. Later she used to buy me June and School Friends, can anyone remember that? X

Snakey

Misty, I think, was the one that was pretty far out considering it was for littleish girls. Lots of horror and supernatural stuff, and you could forget about happy endings for the most part. I remember one where a girl stole Punch and Judy puppets from a gypsy and they fused to her hands and she could never take them off and the strip ended with them hitting and biting her.

I went looking for them on the internet a while back, only managed to find the front covers though. I'd love to read some of the stories again, to see if they were like I remember!



CathA - my mother used to get School Friend when she was young, she'd managed to keep the annuals in pretty good nick and we used to read them. A bit jolly hockey sticks, but no worse than (say) Malory Towers.

ghostfinder

I read The Beano & The Dandy

For years i thought Dennis's dog was pronounced Gansher not Gnasher

axomoxia

Whenever I was stayed with my grandparents, they'd buy a selection from the comic stall on Charlotte Street market at Landports in Portsmouth

Beano, Whizzer and Chips possibly the Dandy as well.

When I was slightly older, Look-in, Warlord, Battle / Action, those Commado comic books, then 2000AD and Starlord.

Revisiting some of these as an adult, Charleys War is probably worth a mention - set in the first world war, it does suffer from the not quite accurate "Oh What a Lovely War " / "Lions led by donkeys" conceptions about the First World War. That said it, the artwork is excellent and historically accurate, and the themes remarkably adult for a child comic - one early episode has the protagonist confronted by a comrade carrying the remains of that comrade best mate in a sack - in another the protagonist suffers from shell shock.

Following that, a brief detour via the Sandman series and occasional forays into Alan Moores work - V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell - the comic books are better than the films.

The only cartoon i read now is Ogri - but I do have a soft spot for Thrud the Barbarian

Mrs_Imp

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

The Four Mary strip in Bunty was terribly dated, even when I was reading it in the 80s.

I have an extremely vivid memory of a story that I think may have been an annual, possibly Judy or Mandy, probably in the late 80s. It was set in a frightening post-apocalyptic world where the human race was under control of aliens; gangs roamed the streets searching for rare tins of food and a precious handful of seeds was hidden for safety in a child's doll. The heroine (called Anella I think) was trying to find her father, who was the leader of freedom fighters rebelling against the invasion. It was really striking, very different to the usual jolly hockey sticks girls comic stuff. Does this ring any bells with anyone else?

Yes I do, and if you give me a couple of days I'll be able to dig it out as I collected the annuals and kept them.

I also remember callie22's story and could probably find that too!!

Serendipitious

amistupid wrote: »

I read Look and Learn, that's why I'm such a smart arse.

Yup, that's all we were allowed, too. Mind you, I did win a Monopoly set from a competition in it (I think it was probably a crossword.)

I read comics in other kids' houses though.

Poppie68

Bunty for me, I loved the free gifts, Jackie when I got older but I did love pinching my brothers Beano to keep up with Dennis the menace escapades.