Commando magazines

decies

Anybody still collect commando magazines ?

branie2

Those little booklet type comics?

Del.Monte

https://www.commandocomics.com/

Lorelli!

No that was never in my house. My brother use to get Shoot. I went through a phase when I was about 10-12 buying girls magazine's like Just Seventeen.

Did anyone read Bizarre magazine? It started in 1997 and stopped publication in 2015. I hadn't read it for years before it stopped but use to read my brother's ones. It really was a "bizarre" magazine, entertaining and a bit weird.

pawrick

Used to have a few at home but they all went in a skip along with my annuals collection and comics when my brother decided to clear out the house. I collected victor, warlord, 2000 AD, the beano, the dandy and anything else i could find as a kid.

darkdubh

Yes, my brother used to get them. Also War Picture Library which were along the same lines, small comics about the size of a paperback book or smaller. Might have been published by the same company, always had great covers.

Erik Shin

Oh yes, my cousin collected commando and war...had hundreds of them and I'd read them all when I visited....he kept every single one of them as he's a complete hoarder

Del.Monte

They were as good as currency when I was at school back in the 1970s. Good covers and usually a good read - taught me most of the German that I still remember too. Such classics as Gott im Himmel, Achtung Minen, Englander Pig Dog, Dummkopf and of course Hände hoch.

darkdubh

Lorelli! wrote: »

No that was never in my house. My brother use to get Shoot. I went through a phase when I was about 10-12 buying girls magazine's like Just Seventeen.

Did anyone read Bizarre magazine? It started in 1997 and stopped publication in 2015. I hadn't read it for years before it stopped but use to read my brother's ones. It really was a "bizarre" magazine, entertaining and a bit weird.

Yes, I remember it from it's early days. Never bought it but used to have a flick through it in the newsagents. By coincidence I spotted a bunch of old back issues in a second hand shop here in Cork today, they were looking for a fiver each which is pretty steep I think.

Lorelli!

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes, I remember it from it's early days. Never bought it but used to have a flick through it in the newsagents. By coincidence I spotted a bunch of old back issues in a second hand shop here in Cork today, they were looking for a fiver each which is pretty steep I think.

Yea that does seem a bit much. I'd buy one or two if I saw them around though.

They use to have unusual/freakish/shocking photos for the first few pages. Then it had some great interviews. I recall reading a good one with Jake The Snake.

Also there use to be a guy who reviewed blue movies near the end of the magazine. He would rarely actually talk about the film but instead would go on a ramble about himself or something about his childhood. Cant remember his name but i use to like his stories. He was very funny.

storker

I used to have lots of Commando books when I was a kid. I've no idea what happened to them. The one that sticks in my mind most probably wasn't even the main story, but rather a "short" tacked on to the end. It starts with fed-up infantryman plodding along looking at someone else who he reckons is much better off than him, then it cuts to the better off guy who is looking at someone else and thinking the same thing, and so on up the chain of better-offness until we go to a bomber, whose pilot is feeling the weight of responsibility for aircraft and crew, and looks at the ground and sees the first infantryman, and thinks how much better off he is, with just his weapon rifle and pack to worry about.

darkdubh

Western Picture Library was another one I remember with the same sized mini comics. It had great cover art as well but an awful lot of the time the covers bore no relation at all to the stories themselves.

Kerrydude1981

Used get the monthly Football comics,had a few of the Commando ones as well

Jobs OXO

darkdubh wrote: »

Western Picture Library was another one I remember with the same sized mini comics. It had great cover art as well but an awful lot of the time the covers bore no relation at all to the stories themselves.

Love the 30 written on it. Irish pence v 15p sterling.

Zaph

I used to have loads of Commando comics, my grandmother bought them for me every week (or was it fortnight) when they came out. They were all long gone before I hit my teens. Didn't realise that they were still around, that's actually brought a smile to my face as I definitely would have considered them a relic from the 70s.

Del.Monte wrote: »

They were as good as currency when I was at school back in the 1970s. Good covers and usually a good read - taught me most of the German that I still remember too. Such classics as Gott im Himmel, Achtung Minen, Englander Pig Dog, Dummkopf and of course He hoch.

You forgot Schweinhund.

darkdubh

Zaph wrote: »

I used to have loads of Commando comics, my grandmother bought them for me every week (or was it fortnight) when they came out. They were all long gone before I hit my teens. Didn't realise that they were still around, that's actually brought a smile to my face as I definitely would have considered them a relic from the 70s.



You forgot Schweinhund.

And Banzai when the Japs were featured. Avanti on the rare occasions when the Italians were the protagonists.