[Humour] Comics that take me back…

[Insel affe]

The Commando and War comics were A5 size booklets costing a 1/- (That‘s a shilling to you or 5p in this new fangled currency). As someone has already alluded to the dialogue would be very dodgy in today’s world. Some of the reasonable examples would go like this :

“ Achtung! Englander Spitfuer!”

“ Take that you filthy Hun!”

“Donner und blitzen!”

“ That’s one less Jerry to worry about.”

and the immortal “ So for you Tommy, the var is over!”

Dem’s were the days.

couple of my favs...

 

[Algernon]

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[marlowe]

Sorry didn't read the OP properly.

Never a fan of Rupert the Bear. Way too wholesome.

I thought the artwork depicting some of the characters he met, especially in the older annuals was particularly creepy and sinister.

Frail, helpless old ladies asking for his assistance would often reveal themselves to be evil witches, who once they had lured him to their remote cottages would keep him prisoner guarded by their hunchbacked dwarf assistants.

I developed my irrational fear of old women from my Rupert annual, especially frail old ladies in need of assistance.

 

[MTSeagulls]

I was mostly a Beano fan for weekly comics.
After Christmas I used to buy others when they were reduced.
When I got a bit older I also used to buy one Dracula Lives and Fireball, which was a secret agent type character.
My Nan used to buy me a Smash annual every Christmas too.

 

[US Seagull]

I had a subscription to the Eagle back when it relaunched in the early 80's. Used to love Dan Dare, pilot of the future.

Now I remember absolutely zero of any of the stories.

 

[Zeberdi]

Definitely TinTin - we were given them in French as a way to improve our French as kids.

Another favourite - I hated spinach as a kid - Mum use to swear by it so I was given this one Christmas and lo and behold, grew to love spinach!

And Rupert Bear

Ok not exactly comics, more comic strips I was incredibly lucky as a kid - My Dad worked on Fleet Street throughout the 1960s so he got loads of freebies cartoon comic strip annuals each year and later when he worked in publishing, the books kept coming …

 

[PaulineSinclair]

Definitely TinTin - we were given them in French as a way to improve our French as kids.

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Another favourite - I hated spinach as a kid - Mum use to swear by it so I was given this one Christmas and lo and behold, grew to love spinach!

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And Rupert Bear

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Ok not exactly comics, more comic strips I was incredibly lucky as a kid - My Dad worked on Fleet Street throughout the 1960s so he got loads of freebies cartoon comic strip annuals each year and later when he worked in publishing, the books kept coming …

lucky? my guy you were the cool kid on your block, at least in my eyes

 

[Tarpon]

I recall Action! From 1976 and the furore it caused with its graphic violence and gore. Was taken off the shelves in Oct 76 and came back a neutered beast, but for those months, it really was a different comic to the others around it. A lot of derivative storylines but as an 11/12 year old, who cares?

This and the sex pistols both got my young attention and that of the disapproving parents in 76. In fact, Action was the sex pistols of comics really.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Fireball and Eagle.
There was a football based one which merged with Roy of the rovers too. I think it had Billy's boots and Hotshot Hamish in it.

Just tried to google Fireball and apparently this wasn't a comic.

Fireball was a character in one strip in the Bullet comic.

 

[anygivensunday]

The Beano, Match! and Shoot were my go to magazines.

I'm also having flashbacks to a black and white football comic about a journeyman mercenary centre forward that was done in pretty realistic style. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called and driving me crazy. He would go and play for like a South american team for 6 months and then like Blackford fc/ Yorkton Town or someone.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

The Beano, Match! and Shoot were my go to magazines.

I'm also having flashbacks to a black and white football comic about a journeyman mercenary centre forward that was done in pretty realistic style. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called and driving me crazy. He would go and play for like a South american team for 6 months and then like Blackford fc/ Yorkton Town or someone.

I was intrigued by this and had a quick google.
could it have been Stark - matchwinner for hire?

Apparently a character in Scoop magazine.

https://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-look-back-at-scoop-1978.html

 

[ROSM]

Beano was obviously different class but also loved Whizzer and Chips. Dandy wasn't as popular with me.

Then graduated to tiger and roy of the rovers. The latter was my all time favourite.

At various stages dabbled with look in (junior tv times) - you look back now at benny hill cartoons for kids, or ed stewart with a ghost written column (and what we now know of his very young wife, I'm not sure you would have him writing in a kids mag). Also when eagle restarted I really liked that.

Now one interesting fact is that DC Thomson part owned (with the daily mail group) southern television, the 1st franchisee of independent television for the south of England.

 

[FamilyGuy]

2000AD. I recall waiting for the monthly (?) issue to drop through the letterbox at my home in Mönchengladbach then finishing it easily within the day.
I had plenty of theses annuals too.
This one is on eBay for £499!!!!
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I have an almost-complete set of 2000AD (2-3 missing I believe), including free gifts, right up until last weeks copy. I also have most of the annuals.
Just saying

 

[anygivensunday]

I was intrigued by this and had a quick google.
could it have been Stark - matchwinner for hire?

Apparently a character in Scoop magazine.

https://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-look-back-at-scoop-1978.html

YES, That's it! I don't remember reading it in that magazine -I think it was an anthology of different comic strips from different magazines but thats definitely the one, cheers!

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Every Xmas the stocking filler was the annuals of ' Whizzer & Chips ' and ' Cor ' .

This thread was bugging me as, like you, I was a Whizzer & Chips kid but I couldn't remember the other one. A bit of searching and I think it was Buster & Cor that was my other read, with Cor being incorporated into Buster at some point.

 

[burnee54]

I have half a dozen Pip, Squeek & Wilfred annuals somewhere in the garage.