What was your favorite comic as a child?

Dan Howitt

Mine was The Avengers. A Marvel Comic.
Dan Howitt

Delirium

Uncle gave me a huge marvel collection as a kid. Had spiderman, avengers, x-men, conan and many others.
My personal favourite though was Dr.Strange illustrated by Steve Ditko.:)
Anything could be drawn in those panels.

Hoovers

I have such fond memories of Spider-man & Zoids. The art work was fantastic. Good 'ol Zoidzilla wrecking the gaf...:D

AngryBadger

Transformers FTW! Loved that comic sooooo much! And this was back in the day, when I could get my weekly TF fix and 50 p worth of luncheon meat on a Saturday! What an age to be alive!!!

BlaasForRafa

I got into american comics in my teens but when I was a kid my favourite comic was Battle. especially the stories Johnny Red and Charleys War

http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/story/1978/pages/087.htm

Patrick Brown

My granda bought me the Beano every week from about the age of 5. (I was 5 not my granda, obviously.) That's where I started. Then Tintin, then 2000AD.

Venom

2000AD.

Even as a nipper I hated the Beano and its ilk.

Fysh

Hehehe, now to confuse everyone with my furrin' ways....the first comic I remember reading regularly and loving was Mortadelo Y Filemón, a Spanish humour strip about two disastrously incompetent secret agents working for the T.I.A. - Mortadelo, a tall gangly bald guy with a penchant for some absolutely baffling disguises, and Filemón, his similarly incompetent but far more ambitious boss who sported a Homer Simpson-style two-strand hairdo. Imagine Blackadder crossed with even more slapstick violence and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., only with more disguises thrown in. Great, great stuff, and with some wonderfully whimsical stuff thrown into background details just for the hell of it.

(English explanation for those of you who are confused)

Other stuff like The Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Victor for Boys, and even 2000AD occasionally made it into my grubby hands but none of them made as much of an impression on me or had me as willing to forgo sweets in order to buy them.

Ger_Hankey

AngryBadger wrote: »

Transformers FTW! Loved that comic sooooo much! And this was back in the day, when I could get my weekly TF fix and 50 p worth of luncheon meat on a Saturday! What an age to be alive!!!

Same here, minus the luncheon meat.

Dan Howitt

Fysh wrote: »

Hehehe, now to confuse everyone with my furrin' ways....the first comic I remember reading regularly and loving was Mortadelo Y Filemón, a Spanish humour strip about two disastrously incompetent secret agents working for the T.I.A. - Mortadelo, a tall gangly bald guy with a penchant for some absolutely baffling disguises, and Filemón, his similarly incompetent but far more ambitious boss who sported a Homer Simpson-style two-strand hairdo. Imagine Blackadder crossed with even more slapstick violence and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., only with more disguises thrown in. Great, great stuff, and with some wonderfully whimsical stuff thrown into background details just for the hell of it.

(English explanation for those of you who are confused)

Other stuff like The Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Victor for Boys, and even 2000AD occasionally made it into my grubby hands but none of them made as much of an impression on me or had me as willing to forgo sweets in order to buy them.

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Dan Howitt

Mr. K

I've always loved Spidey comics, I've been getting them since 1996. My mentality hasn't changed much since then...some might say.

constitutionus

my bro had a order of 2000ad which was the first comic i read and i inherited his massive marvel collection which had the best of the early eighties xmen fanstastic four thor iron man the avengers with a smattering of smaller titles like ghost rider shogun warrioirs micronauts and DCs green lantern (still the only classic DC character ive taken to)

but it was transformers for me. first comic i chose to follow myself and i just fell in love with the world.

first comic where i ever saw the bad guys win !

spooydermot

yeah, as a child of the 80's Transformers was also my weekly comic fix.

Coupe of years later it was 2000AD, which I gave up after the Judgement Day storyline (where one had to buy 2 publications).

Myself and a friend were just remarking the other day that art-wise in mainstream comics the 90's in 2000AD comics was really the zenith (no pun intended) of art on a panel to panel basis - see ABC Warriors:Chronicles Of Chaos or some of the new Rouge Trooper strips.

Mr. K

I've read a couple of the Marvel Transformers TPBs, they're really cool. I might take another look before the second movie comes out, when the hype will start again!

Hagar

Victor, Hotspur, Hornet, Wham, Buster, Beano, Topper, Beezer, The Sparky, The Big One, Eagle.
All the Dell and DC comics.

The sister read the Bunty, Judy and Dandy

/Edit How could I have forgotten Mad magazine.


TV was only in it's infancy, even young children could read. Comics were great.

Captain Slow IRL

Big Comic Fortnightly, out every fortnight:rolleyes:
The older brother had a crap-load of copies of Groo, used to love them as well.

Saruwatari

The Dandy. In particular, I loved Bananaman and Desperate Dan.
But I think the first comic I ever loved was this old cowboy annual I unfortunately can't remember the name of. It had two sheriffs in it, one burly Rambo-esque guy, and the other was a podgy bald dude. It was drawn in a fantastic Hergé-esque style (least what I remember of it), it was red and goddamn it was awesome.
I will flip twice in the air if someone here could tell me what the name of it was... :pac:

Fysh

I have to second the Bananaman love. Perhaps that's why I can't get too seriously into any given superhero, at the end of the day part of my brain will compare them to Eric and imagine them being bullied at a school reunion by all the other fruit-powered supervillains....

Speaking of Desperate Dan, Jamie Smart did a recent run for the Dandy and the couple of strips I saw looked really good. Wouldn't mind getting a collection of them if they're available, although somehow I doubt it

Patrick Brown

Jamie Smart's doing Desperate Dan? I may have to start picking up the Dandy. His stuff in the DFC (the DFC Olympics, and especially Fish Head Steve) is genius!

Fysh

Patrick Brown wrote: »

Jamie Smart's doing Desperate Dan? I may have to start picking up the Dandy. His stuff in the DFC (the DFC Olympics, and especially Fish Head Steve) is genius!

I think he's actually finished now, sadly. But he had a run of 12 weeks or so a while back, I picked up a couple of issues (under the pretext of sending them to my nephew and they were great, a very different style to what I remember seeing as a kid but very very funny stuff).

I keep meaning to check out the DFC but haven't got around to it yet; I did like what I saw of Fish Head Steve on his blog though...

constitutionus

spooydermot wrote: »

yeah, as a child of the 80's Transformers was also my weekly comic fix.

Coupe of years later it was 2000AD, which I gave up after the Judgement Day storyline (where one had to buy 2 publications).

Myself and a friend were just remarking the other day that art-wise in mainstream comics the 90's in 2000AD comics was really the zenith (no pun intended) of art on a panel to panel basis - see ABC Warriors:Chronicles Of Chaos or some of the new Rouge Trooper strips.

i always remember feeling spoiled as a kid in terms of the art. how on earth the guys in the US could settle for that god awfull dot matrix colouring system when we had simon bisley painting slaine is beyond me.

without a doubt the UK stuff was way aheard of the curve in the art production dept. and the stories ! i doubt my ma wouldnve let me read 2000ad if she knew what was in it.

still waiting for a rogue trooper film someday