Comics

[Osc]

Do you know that there are now no weekly comics for girls? Kellie’s teacher was telling them about comics last week so she was keen to get one or two. She and Miss Osc looked in Dublin’s biggest bookshop on Saturday and could only get the Beano.

I remember so well how much I loved my weekly School Friend and Girl’s Crystal, later Jackie and Petticoat, and the excitement of getting the annual at Christmas. It was lovely to see Kellie really enjoying the Beano and I’ve looked and looked but there seem to be no weekly comics available, only expensive magazines with trashy gifts - she likes them too but at about €6 a go, they would not be a weekly thing. Nothing for boys either. Such a shame

[cruiser2]

I remember the Dandy and the Beano when I was young. Then used to get the Hotspur. Would swap with other boys as there were different comics.
Then there was The Children's Newspaper.
They all helped to make us good at reading and spelling. Not like the information which is being given out to primary schooll children trying to teach them
arithmatic but including transgender pronouns in the questions.

[Ally]

Sis and I read the Dandy and the Beano. We also got the annuals for Christmas.

We also used to buy the Bunty and the Judy. One of those used to have a 'model' (back page I think?) and cut out clothes for her that you fitted by folding over the little paper tabs.

As I entered my teens I bought Jackie magazine religiously every week.

[Osc]

Oh yes, Bunty and Judy! I well remember the cut out models on the back page!

[Kaz]

I liked Bunty and Mandy, and used to get either the Beano or Dandy sometimes. I loved Beryl the Peril When I got older it was Jackie, then Disco 45. I had a huge picture of David Cassidy out of Jackie on my bedroom wall

[Ally]

Nice thread Osc.

Don's just told me he got The Scorcher delivered every Saturday.

Must've known he was going to live in Spain later in life.

[miasmum]

My comics went in 2's and in phases

When I was little I had Teddy Bear and Twinkle. Then I moved on to Beano and Cor and then Pink and I think Bunty

Always had the annuals every Christmas

[cromwell]

My big brother used to get the Eagle. He was a big Dan Dare fan.
I read the Beano, Dandy, the Victor etc.
I remember most of the others. Jackie must have sold a lot of copies!

[Workingman]

Beano and Dandy shared between us when we were younger. Sis moved on to Mandy and then Jackie. I went with the Topper and then those small 'military' comics - planes and boats and tanks etc.

Always got a Rupert annual from Uncle Ted at Xmas, don't know why, and was fascinated by the stories.

[TheOstrich]

........ and then those small 'military' comics - planes and boats and tanks etc.

There were literally hundreds of editions of those. "Commando" was the popular one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_(comics)

I had an extensive "library" of them and made a mint hiring them out / selling them on to school pals ....

Apart from that, the real highlight - every Christmas - was getting the annual book of Giles cartoons