Boys Comics from the 80s

Vas_Guy

All the boys comics that I remember from the 80's are now gone

Who remembers these:

Eagle
Tiger
Victor
Warlord
Roy of the Rovers
Battle

In todays world i suspose its not very pc to metion Germany and the war

There was great stories in those comics, real boys stuff

Welease

My favourite was Speed which only ran for a short time, before being merged with Tiger.. Stores like Death Wish were awesome..

http://ukcomicsarefun.blogspot.com/2008/05/tiger-and-speed-first-one.html

I was also a member of both the Warlord and Fireball clubs

Vas_Guy

Welease wrote: »

My favourite was Speed which only ran for a short time, before being merged with Tiger.. Stores like Death Wish were awesome..

http://ukcomicsarefun.blogspot.com/2008/05/tiger-and-speed-first-one.html

I was also a member of both the Warlord and Fireball clubs

Eagle and Tiger also joined up together in the mid 80s

Death Wish was a great story

hairymick

Charleys war from Battle was a great story.

partyguinness

I used to get the "Get Along Gang" comics. I even got the fitness one as a present (doll/teddy bear) for Xmas '86 along with a Lego train set..

The sister would get the "Care Bears" and "My Little Pony" crap.

mike65

Battle, though it was prolly already past its best by the 80s. Started in 1974 then merged with the awesome Action in 1977.

Trafford Lad

I loved the weekly Transformers comic, circa 85-86, Galvatron, Optimus Prime being replaced by Ultra Magnus..etc etc..loved it:)

Pop's Diner

The shortlived Scream. Issue #1 came with some glow in the dark dracula fangs.

bullets

I was not much of a comic guy but did buy a few
from time to time.

I had scream! with plastic fangs.

Oink was one of my favourites and always am on the look out for the flexi record disc that was with one of the issues
that was taking the piss out of Prince Charles and had two
songs! Oink Oink with Uncle Pig.

I also maybe had battle or warlord cant remember which
Maybe it was WILD CAT a merger of other comics with issues in 3D with free 3d glasses.

A dude that had one arm that was offered an operation to
restore his arm but ended up getting a arm butt that could
inter change claws/guns/grenade launchers instead,
A woman that had stelleto heels that were also throwing knives, and a big brute of a fellow that lifted weights.

The title (other) story was about a space ship that tried
to populate other planets one of them with some harmless birds which soldiers shot only to be attacked by birds later on in the story. I think at some point they had Dan Dare or somthing that floated about on some flying saucer try
to frequent the comic.

One thing with Both Oink and wildcat was that the paper that it was printed on was glossy and disticnly higher quality and had more colour panels in them.

I also remember 2000 AD something I never had any interest in for the stories but picked up from time to time
(every 3 months) when they released special editions for the artwork alone. I hated Judge Dread but liked some of the other stories like Rogue Trooper, the viking/mutent time travlled, and some slade viking and surfer dude.

~B

SEPT 23 1989

i was going to say Commando

but its seems it is still going

loved this

http://www.commandomag.com/

Bearhunter

I used to read (at various times) Victor, Hotspur, Wizard, Warlord, Fireball, Battle Picture Weekly (Later just Battle), Action, Roy of the Rovers, Lion, Tiger, Eagle and 2000AD. I also had a huge collection of Commando comics and the similar Battle/War Picture Library series. Great days to be a boy.

darkdubh

Vas_Guy wrote: »

Eagle and Tiger also joined up together in the mid 80s

Death Wish was a great story

Was that about the deformed guy with the mask?There was also a story about a red indian wrestler .

Big Vern

I used to get Roy of the Rovers every week, my brother would get Eagle...
Had forgotten all about 'Death Wish', that was a great story-line...Also Billys boots was great, loved the way he had boots for football and then had ones for the cricket in the summer!!!!

Welease

darkdubh wrote: »

Was that about the deformed guy with the mask?

Yeah, he was the beautiful playboy world motor racing champ who had his face burnt off in a plane crash.. (nice!!!)
Rather than commit suicide which he believed was the cowards way out, he would do every crazy stunt possible and eventually the odds would catch up with him..

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/dethwish.htm

He now lives in a small terrace house in Basingstoke, and enjoys Bingo on Weds night and feeding the ducks in the park (I might have made this last bit up though )

Morlar

Pop's Diner wrote: »

The shortlived Scream. Issue #1 came with some glow in the dark dracula fangs.

I bought that issue too ! 22p well spent

Other favourites were already mentioned, Warlord, Battle, the Eagle & 2000AD.

nlgbbbblth

Champ from 1984.

here's someone selling em on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Champ-UK-Comic-1984-every-issue-(-%231-with-free-gift-)_W0QQitemZ200359093034QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090703?IMSfp=TL090703154003r32547

endplate

Champ, Buddy Starblazer and there was another one I used to get it used to have a lot of 3d storys in it (anyone remember the name?) of course I had lost or wrecked the glasses after a few issues.

Champ and Buddy joined with Victor and eventually disappeared which I wasn't a fan of

Magnum

My mother used bring home Victor to me each Friday............

ixoy

Definite fave was Eagle, which had 'Computer Warrior' and the rather dark 'Doom Lord'. I didn't care much for the retro Dan Dare, preferring the more modern take on it.

Pop's diner wrote:

The shortlived Scream. Issue #1 came with some glow in the dark dracula fangs.

Think I still have Issue #1 at home.

Old'n'Cranky

Anyone recall Tornado? it only ran for a short time and then it became 2000AD and Tornado until it vanished into 200AD....


Good times......

superfly

bullets wrote: »

A dude that had one arm that was offered an operation to
restore his arm but ended up getting a arm butt that could
inter change claws/guns/grenade launchers instead,
A woman that had stelleto heels that were also throwing knives, and a big brute of a fellow that lifted weights.

that was Storm Force which was brought in to fill up Battle after Action Force left because Marvel got back the G.I.Joe licence

mike65

OldnCranky wrote: »

Anyone recall Tornado? it only ran for a short time and then it became 2000AD and Tornado until it vanished into 200AD....

Yep 2000AD ate up two in-house competitors in quick succession, the other being Starlord which lasted 22 issues (I have every one) and was arguable better than its stable mate.

PatB71

Thanks for reminding me ..I still have about 300 comics up in my attic,Victor/Warlord/Battle/Commando but mostly 2000AD`s.Man my school books use to be covered with drawings of the ABC Warriors(make the Transformers look like girl guides)Must take them down and have a comic weekend.Told my wife was keeping them for my son when he grows up ...yeah right:D

Bearhunter

PatB71 wrote: »

Thanks for reminding me ..I still have about 300 comics up in my attic,Victor/Warlord/Battle/Commando but mostly 2000AD`s.Man my school books use to be covered with drawings of the ABC Warriors(make the Transformers look like girl guides)Must take them down and have a comic weekend.Told my wife was keeping them for my son when he grows up ...yeah right:D

Heh. I had Hammerstein and Deadlock on my schoolbooks too. Much cooler than Judge Dredd.

bullets

Any chance that people could upload some scans/samples of these comics for sentimental value ?


~B

dbar

Ah, Yes - Warlord - Lord Peter Flint - Superagent. Learned my first German from Warlord - Acthung! Gott in Himmel Sphitfuer!
Battle - Charleys War (with the s reversed) - remember a great story about Smith 70 (because there was over 500 smiths in the British army!) Vickers Machine Gunner - shooting off 500 rounds to boil the water in the Machine Gun to make the tea at 10 every morning! Its amazing what you remember.
Still have a great interest in WW1 and WW2.

Victor - anyone remember the V for Vengence story?
Great stuff!

Spear

dbar wrote: »

Ah, Yes - Warlord - Lord Peter Flint - Superagent. Learned my first German from Warlord - Acthung! Gott in Himmel Sphitfuer!
Battle - Charleys War (with the s reversed) - remember a great story about Smith 70 (because there was over 500 smiths in the British army!) Vickers Machine Gunner - shooting off 500 rounds to boil the water in the Machine Gun to make the tea at 10 every morning! Its amazing what you remember.
Still have a great interest in WW1 and WW2.

Victor - anyone remember the V for Vengence story?
Great stuff!

The Charleys War series are available in a series of volumes, with extra material such as interviews.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charleys-War-June-1-August-1916/dp/1840236272/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247842860&sr=8-3

Waterstones in Dublin have stocked them in the past.

dbar

Nice one!
Ordered yesterday!