Comics - what did you read?

stoneill

Whizzer and Chips
Battle Action
2000AD
Shiver and Shake
Cor!
Beano - but not Dandy.
The Beezer
Lion
Warlord

Can you remember any more?

The Princess Bride

Twinkle when I was about 4/5-the first story I can remembering reading ,was Nancy The Little Nurse from Twinkle.

There was a regular feature about a girl's brother and his antics.
"He's small,he's sweet,he's seldom neat,he's full of fun and joy.
He's grumpy,friendly, naughty,cute-like any little boy-
He's my baby brother.

When I was a bit older, I'd sneak a read of my sister's Mandy comic, the stories were for older girls,still very tame by today's standards.

We didn't get them every week,so it was always a treat to read them.

Happy memories.:)

darkdubh

My brother used always get Roy Of The Rovers but I was never a footie fan so never bothered with it.My fave was 2000AD.Also used to get those small war comics War Picture Libary and Commando.Must have had hundreds of them at one point.

Lawrence1895

My favourite ones were called 'Clever&Smart'.

And of course 'MAD'

BBDBB

Commando Comics
Beano
Beezer
Shoot
Match
Whizzer & Chips


edit also remember a football magazine called Scoop

Lemming

Commando, Warlord, & those other small war comics
2000AD
Transformers
Mask

and I used to read my brothers annuals and the like as he was a few years older; such as the Beano, the Dandy, the Broons (Scottish), and the footie ones such as Shoot, Match, etc.

Rubberlegs

msthe80s wrote: »

Twinkle when I was about 4/5-the first story I can remembering reading ,was Nancy The Little Nurse from Twinkle.

There was a regular feature about a girl's brother and his antics.
"He's small,he's sweet,he's seldom neat,he's full of fun and joy.
He's grumpy,friendly, naughty,cute-like any little boy-
He's my baby brother.

When I was a bit older, I'd sneak a read of my sister's Mandy comic, the stories were for older girls,still very tame by today's standards.

We didn't get them every week,so it was always a treat to read them.

Happy memories.:)

Thanks for that, that's brought back some memories:D. I remember my Dad reading the rhyme about the little boy to me.

Besides Twinkle, I read The Beano, Dandy and Whizzer and Chips.
When a bit older it was Jackie, loved the Cathy and Claire problem page..

gipi

Mandy and Bunty
Victor and The Hotspur (which must have been passed on from male cousins!)
Dandy and Beano
Jackie as a teenager

Albedo0.39

Dandy and Beano. It was great running down to the shop every week getting the latest one

pdbhp

Beano and Dandi for me.
Loved those comics especially Calamity James even today the humour in CJ is great.

nlgbbbblth

Beano
Dandy
Whizzer and Chips
Cor!
Topper
Beezer
Champ!

carrig2

Jackie
Bunty (with dress up dolls to cut out)
Judy

shockwave

Commando comics
Whizzer & chips
The Beano
2000 AD

I loved commando comics, I must have had about 200 of them which I sold when I was about 15.

God I was I'd kept them now:(

Bearhunter

Beezer
Shiver&Shake
Cor!
Topper
Whoopee
Krazy
Cheeky
Buster
Hostpur
Wizard
Victor
Battle
Lion
Warlord
Action
Tiger
Roy of the Rovers
2000AD

gidget

Beano
Dandy
Bunty

Skid

Whizzer and Chips
Buster
Match
Roy of The Rovers
Wow!
Victor
Whoopee!
Shoot

I got very used to reading the message 'Exciting new for all readers inside!' which invariably meant the Comic was being merged with another title (i.e. effectively closed down )

I was a walking kiss of death for comics.
As soon as I started getting Wow! it was merged into Whoopee!
Then Whoope! was taken over by Whizzer and Chips.

Aglomerado

Dandy
Beano
Buster
Whizzer and Chips
Oink! (still my all time favourite)

and, a few years later,
Viz!

bullets

Beano, Bunty, Bare arse monthly is the phrase that springs to mind any time
I think of comics after listening to Billy Connolly stand up routines.

I was never a comic person. The American comic culture never quite hit
Ireland when I was growing up so things like Marvel and Darkhorse stuff like
Superman/Spider man/Predator/The Crow type stuff was always found at the forbidden planet uber expensive type places later on in teenage years time frame.

As a Kid. My favorite was Whizzer and Chips, followed by Beano and Dandy.
I never liked the Main Characters like Desperate Dan and Denis and Ghasher but
favored the other stories. I think Beano and Dandy merged as comics as well as
Eagle and Battle. I was never really into 2000AD comics the were never available in newsagents as regular comics so it was only once in a blue moon if you managed to spot a monthly or bi-monthly edition that may have graced the shelves.....even then I was buying them because of the Artwork rather than any interest in the stories.

Oink Comic I liked it was like a precursor before Viz and Zit comics for young adults.

~B

fussyonion

Bunty and Mandy.
Got them every week and every Christmas as Annuals. Loved them. Still have the annuals.

Taltos

Eagle
2000AD
Roy of the Rovers
Beano / Dandy

uch

As Billy Connolly said, I read "Beano, Bunty and Bare arsé monthly"

Aglomerado

uch wrote: »

As Billy Connolly said, I read "Beano, Bunty and Bare arsé monthly"

"Leather Skateboarder"

9959

Has anyone mentioned 'Scorcher', home of 'The Kangaroo Kid' and 'Billy's Boots'?

Bearhunter

9959 wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned 'Scorcher', home of 'The Kangaroo Kid' and 'Billy's Boots'?

I do remember Scorcherr (vaguely). It merged with Score didn't it?

9959

Bearhunter wrote: »

I do remember Scorcherr (vaguely). It merged with Score didn't it?

That's right.
Though I think by that stage I'd moved on to the real/hard stuff such as 'Goal'.

Judes

I remember most of the comics mentioned above - the girly ones I would buy/swap with friends and I used to read my brother's too - nobody can beat Denis the Menance and Gnasher, or Minnie the Minx - and the disappointment of not being able to find a Desperate Dan Cow Pie What about Alf the "Tough of the Tracks".

But question for the girls - does anyone out there remember "Misty" - it was a girly comic but the stories were based around the creepy, the earie, the supernatural - almost like XFiles on paper (years before the TV series came out). I just loved that comic.

And how I loved those Christmas Annuals - simple but entertaining. Ah, memories

endplate

Here's a few that haven't been mentioned

Buddy
Champ
Starblazer

There was a few other science fiction comics but I can't remember them

darkdubh

Another of my favourites was Battle.It had strips like Johnny Red,Darkies Mob and the brilliant Charlies War.

chakotha

I was a weekly Buster reader as a kid before changing to Whoopee.

There were smatterings of others for Summer specials and annuals.

Topper
Dandy
Beezer
Whizzer and Chips
Victor
Jackpot

2000AD a bit later.

marwelie

whizzer and chips
roy of the rovers
match
victor
shoot

still have most of my rotrs and whizzer and chips

padd b1975

Roy Of The Rovers.

Hot Shot Hamish.

Mighty Mouse.

Wheelchair Wonder.

Barnes United.

Irish Guitarist

Things like The Beano and The Dandy when I was about six. Then when I was about eight or nine I started reading things like Transformers, Masters Of The Universe, Zoids, Thundercats, The Eagle and 2000 AD.

I also briefly went through a phase where I read Care Bears. My reasoning for this was that it was published by Marvel Comics who also published Transformers, Zoids and loads of superhero comics like Spiderman and The Hulk.

Sgt Hartman

Aglomerado wrote: »

Dandy
Beano
Buster
Whizzer and Chips
Oink! (still my all time favourite)

and, a few years later,
Viz!

Ah Oink! I loved that comic. My favourite character was the evil butcher Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith:pac:

Aglomerado

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Ah Oink! I loved that comic. My favourite character was the evil butcher Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith:pac:

He was cool. I also loved Tom Thug (who later appeared in Buster, if I remember correctly), Dead Fred and Burp the Smelly Alien.

ollaetta

The ones I remember reading often were Beano, Beezer, Dandy, Wizard, Hotspur, Tiger. Then a few others mentioned earlier Cor!, Buster, Lion and, if reeeeeeeaaaaaaaally stuck the sisters Bunty, Judy etc.

Moved on to Commando, Battle etc. which I read til they almost fell apart.

A cousin in the States used send over Spiderman, Hulk etc. which I read but wasn't that mad about.

gammygils

The Beano
Whizzer & Chips
And Whoopee were the faves in our house. My 2 brothers and I got one
each every week.And if those weren't available(sold out). We'd get either
Dandy
Roy Of The Rovers
Tiger
Beezer
And we would get an Annual every year for Christmas as well
Whatever our parents could get. Demand was high then

darkdubh

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Ah Oink! I loved that comic. My favourite character was the evil butcher Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith:pac:

And don't forget Snatching Sam.I remember one strip they had of him in olden times called"Ye ballad of Snatching Sam" and I can remember the rhyme that went with it word for word 25 years on.

Now Sam was young and desperate and hunger did he feel,
so he crept into Ye Squires kitchen for to steal himself a meal.
But Sam was most unlucky as he made of with his loot
for Ye Squires guard did spot him and made off in pursuit.
As Sam tried to leg it he slipped and dropped his veg
and a soft and squishy turnip upon his head did wedge.
The guard drew nigh and he did cry "Oh man of turnip head".
"Have you seen Sam that theiving rogue?""He went that way!" Sam said.
The guard was fooled which gave young Sam an idea both silly and wise.
"This turnip has saved my bacon he said,I'll use it as a disquise".
Now Sam robs from the rich and gives to the poor for he's a highwayman
and noone knows that Dick Turnip is really Snatching Sam.

Aglomerado

darkdubh wrote: »

And don't forget Snatching Sam.I remember one strip they had of him in olden times called"Ye ballad of Snatching Sam" and I can remember the rhyme that went with it word for word 25 years on.

Now Sam was young and desperate and hunger did he feel,
so he crept into Ye Squires kitchen for to steal himself a meal.
But Sam was most unlucky as he made of with his loot
for Ye Squires guard did spot him and made off in pursuit.
As Sam tried to leg it he slipped and dropped his veg
and a soft and squishy turnip upon his head did wedge.
The guard drew nigh and he did cry "Oh man of turnip head".
"Have you seen Sam that theiving rogue?""He went that way!" Sam said.
The guard was fooled which gave young Sam an idea both silly and wise.
"This turnip has saved my bacon he said,I'll use it as a disquise".
Now Sam robs from the rich and gives to the poor for he's a highwayman
and noone knows that Dick Turnip is really Snatching Sam.

Ha ha brilliant memory. Thanks.

Bearhunter

gammygils wrote: »

And we would get an Annual every year for Christmas as well
Whatever our parents could get. Demand was high then

I loved the annuals and the summer specials that would come out maybe twice over the summer.

Berlin at night

bEANO
dANDY
Roy of the rovers
score
scorcher
whizzer and cjips
hotspur

Milllions more I can't remember. I was in all the fan clubs as well. I was adicted to getting the wallets with the logos on them.

BlaasForRafa

Battle
Warlord
Victor
Roy of the Rovers
Tiger
Buster
Whizzer and Chips
Dandy
Beano
Beezer
Battle/War Picture Library (my local corner shop always got these but rarely got Commando)

There were a few short lived ones as well, Scream which was quite memorable, one of the strips I recall was The Thirteenth Floor which was about a homicidal computer which control a tower block, killing burglars, debt collectors and anyone he wanted basically.

Nerdkiller1991

The Beano
The Dandy
Buster
Simpsons Comics

Now that I think about it (and especially after seeing the recent Judge Dredd movie), I wish I got into 2000AD.

Also, December 4th will be the last printed issue of The Dandy before it moves to an online only format.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19284222

CUPimus

Gotta be Beano! It was the best!