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When I wur a lad

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With Endgame out at the cinema I mentioned that I'd never really read these type of comics growing up. The one I really remember for me was the Commando Books series (War stories in pictures they called it) 4 'books' out every month and went to the shop as regular as clockwork to get them, always looked forward to new issues coming out and the collection would get re-read countless times

What was it for you
Marvels' super heros, DC's, the Dandy/Beano type, football stories (roy of the rovers type stuff I guess) or something else?
 
Slab said:
With Endgame out at the cinema I mentioned that I'd never really read these type of comics growing up. The one I really remember for me was the Commando Books series (War stories in pictures they called it) 4 'books' out every month and went to the shop as regular as clockwork to get them, always looked forward to new issues coming out and the collection would get re-read countless times

What was it for you
Marvels' super heros, DC's, the Dandy/Beano type, football stories (roy of the rovers type stuff I guess) or something else?
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I had more affinity to the Commando books and war related comics rather than anything superhero related. Pretty sure I remember a comic called Warlord too
 
The Victor comic every week, and Commando when on holiday. Alf Tupper was one of my favourites back then, along with Braddock VC. Had a brief flirt with the Hotspur but quickly returned to the Victor.
 
i used to get 2000 AD up till i was about 15 and got Battle and maybe Warlord from about 8 or 9 till 13 or 14.

I started getting the NME after that (15) and still got it right up till i was 30 something and kept them all, including the comics.

when my mother died my Dad sold the big house and skipped the lot
 
Mainly Goal and Shoot for me but also loved the little Commando books.
 
Beano, Dandy, Beezer, whizzer and chips when younger.

Victor and Tiger when around 9 or 10.

Commando books after that.

Shaven ravers, Razzle, hustler, Penthouse.......from 11. Do they count?
 
2000ad for me. Right from the first edition with the space spinner on the front up until I was in my 20s. Started on Marvel in my early teens, mainly the Punisher and Spiderman but read all sorts of others.

Re-found my love of comics with releases like the Dark Knight series and the Watchmen graphic novel.

Still read quite a few now, reading judge dredd from the start as they have been re-releasing them. Up to about edition 21.
 
The books about Napper McCann were a massive football favourite for me, as a slight aside from purely comics. Just typical schoolboy football team hijinx. Read Roy of the Rover, too. Loved those. Buster was my favourite comic though - wasn’t so fussed on Dandy but did read Beano.
 
I used to get the Beano and the Dandy comics - in fact I once sent a drawing into the Dandy which got published on the 'readers artwork' page. :LOL:

Later on I moved onto football magazines like 'Match' and 'Shoot', and then later still 'Kerrang' magazine.

Never read any superhero comic books or anything, but I've still watched all the Marvel films, along with the others like X-Men etc. It's one of the few film genres that me and the wife both like.
 
No comics for me as there was precious little money. My son had a comic for most of his youth. At 14 mum asked him if he wanted to change his Beano to anything else and he got her to buy FHM 😣😣. The newsagent asked if she was sure as she'd not a clue what it was but she still got it delivered for him - needless to say, I never got to see it
 
Started off with the Beano and Dandy, even got bought the latest annuals last Christmas as I'd mentioned to Mrs Wolf I used to get one every year.

After those I went on to Marvel & DC comics, favourites were Thor & Hulk loved getting those comics, also really liked getting the DC Green Arrow found that cooler than Batman. Still have a quick look at them if I'm ever in Waterstones as I'm still a big kid
 
On a more serious note I lived a road with lots of children and we tried to have every comic by each buying a different one and then swapping them around between us.
I always remembering to looking forward to get my turn with The Eagle, probably seen as an 'upmarket' comic by us then.
 
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Never did comics growing up, didn't have enough money to "waste" on something you throw away after a day, as my dad put it.
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Oh, you poor bugger!!!
Comics were so big a part of my childhood. Beano, Dandy, Eagle and the really good thick ones that took ages to read.
I remember a childhood friend knocking the door in the e evening holding an armful of them and asking my mum ,who answered the door ,if I had any "swaps"
We'd spend an hour with comics all over the floor , doing deals on what would be swapped for what etc. Then off to bed with a pile to be "consumed" over several evenings after homework and "Journey into Space". or "Dick Barton."
No tv , of course, way back then.
but I wouldn't swap my childhood for the ones 8, 9 yr olds have now, much as I love the technology.
 
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