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Syndicated comic strips.

  • 03-12-2013 5:16pm
    #1
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭


    What ones do you remember from the good old days?Flash Gordon in Irelands Own.Also The Phantom in The Sunday World and Henry(he was a bit strange,he was bald and never spoke).Any favourites?


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  • #2
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Ah the Phantom "The Ghost who walks" ! :D Remember it well.


  • #3
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Ah the Phantom "The Ghost who walks" ! :D Remember it well.
    Yes they used to repeat the backstory quite a lot where the first Phantoms father is killed by pirates and he swears on his skull for revenge.


  • #4
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    What was that slightly risque one that they showed in one of the English Tabloids?Something adventures of Pauline,a lot of it involved her with little or no clothes.


  • #5
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    My own personal favourite was Ernie, by Bo Grace


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  • #6
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was that slightly risque one that they showed in one of the English Tabloids?Something adventures of Pauline,a lot of it involved her with little or no clothes.

    Sounds like The Perils Of Page 3 Pauline.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/50832486@N00/2674744217/


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  • #7
    branie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Moose and Broom Hilda in the Evening Press


  • #8
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I can only remember more recent ones like Hagar.
    Too much time reading the Beano :pac:


  • #9
    branie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Remember the Wizard of Id?


  • #10
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    The world needs more of The Far Side come to think of it


  • #11
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    branie wrote: »
    Remember the Wizard of Id?
    Stll around I'm sure.


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  • #12
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


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  • #13
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »
    The world needs more of The Far Side come to think of it
    Yes sadly missed.I have all the the book collections.I don't see the Far Side Greeting cards for sale any more they used to have them in Easons.


  • #14
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Judge Dredd in The Star.Mutt And Jeff.And I nearly forgot about Wicked Willy who was a talking you know what.I diden't see any of the strips themselves as I'm sure they were printed in some adult magazine but Wicked Willy Tshirts were very popular at one point.I remember a fella in our school got into trouble for coming in wearing one.


  • #15
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Yes sadly missed.I have all the the book collections.I don't see the Far Side Greeting cards for sale any more they used to have them in Easons.

    Best thing for any Far Side fan is this
    My parents got me it for Christmas a few years ago. 2 massive hardcovers you coukd beat someone to death with.

    They also got me this one too. Best christmas ever :pac:


  • #16
    johnnyyesno
    Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    Remember that one "Love Is..."? I can't understand why they used two naked children as the main characters, especialy as it would sometimes imply they were supposed to be adults (showing them driving cars etc). They used to be popular greeting cards too. Don't see it anymore understandably.


  • #17
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    johnnyyesno wrote: »
    Remember that one "Love Is..."? I can't understand why they used two naked children as the main characters, especialy as it would sometimes imply they were supposed to be adults (showing them driving cars etc). They used to be popular greeting cards too. Don't see it anymore understandably.

    Started around the same time as the film Love Story so beginning of the 70s. Apparently still going - not sure where it's reproduced now.


  • #18
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Does the Indo still run that Count Curly Wee strip?


  • #19
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Some history on the strip here. I remember Hugh Leonard being disparagingly referred to as "Count Curly Wee", probably in Hot Press.

    https://downthetubes.net/?p=109302


  • #20
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Some history on the strip here. I remember Hugh Leonard being disparagingly referred to as "Count Curly Wee", probably in Hot Press.

    https://downthetubes.net/?p=109302

    On a personal level he was sometimes obnoxious to deal with. Not pleasant to retail staff and would write about them disparagingly in his Sindo column.


  • #21
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    On a personal level he was sometimes obnoxious to deal with. Not pleasant to retail staff and would write about them disparagingly in his Sindo column.

    I always got that impression from his columns and interviews that he was a right condescending snob.


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  • #22
    Conqueror
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Conqueror


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Does the Indo still run that Count Curly Wee strip?
    Yes, usually next to Dilbert.


  • #23
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    I always got that impression from his columns and interviews that he was a right condescending snob.

    Definitely. He wouldn't mention them by name but would give the details of the shop / retail outlet and enough information about the individual as to make them identifiable and effectively caused embarrassment for people.


  • #24
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/106739991#Comment_106739991

    It seems to have been the inspiration behind this 70s deoderant advert. Just utterly bizarre.


    Scarred for Life (@ScarredForLife2) Tweeted:

    1977 adverts were weird. https://t.co/Nel0c4Z7s3 https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1500139943032729601?s=20&t=DOTBZogYl5hAHz8y_joqiA



  • #25
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    George And Lynne used to appear in the Sun. The jokes were shite and the title characters annoying but it didn't matter as yer wan would get her kit off.

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  • #26
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I remember a short lived one in the Irish Examiner circa 2000 called Girls In The City. It was supposed to be a Cork spoof of Sex And The City, it was mindboggilingly unfunny.



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