What Comics did you read as a kid?

[RetroMartin]

Anybody remember the old Combat Colin short strips in The transformers comics?

I used to collect Sonic The Comic, Beano and Dandy personally!

[badda]

Simon Furman and Geoff Senior are gods.

Transformers UK in the '80s was the best comic, anywhere! 2000AD was a strong runner-up. The stories are still brilliant. Timeless.

[deadpan666]

Used to read loads of comics...still do...but the ones back in the day were...

Buster
Whizzer and Chips
Nutty
Dandy
Whoopee
Monster Fun
Beano
Eagle
2000AD
Transformers
The Beezer
The Topper
Scream
The Real Ghostbusters

...and my personal favourite....

Oink!

It's always being described as a kiddie version of Viz, but I don't feel that's the best way to describe it. It was quite gross with a twisted sense of humour, and it riled a few people...it even had it's own in-house critic in the form of Mary Lighthouse...and was even mentioned in parliament...Not for corrupting the youth of the nation, but because of a clever spoof of the Poll Tax, saying that owners of Parrots had to pay tax unless they were Conservatives....

It was where Charlie Brooker and Marc "Lard" Riley cut their teeth too, as well as various artists who do stuff for Private Eye, etc....

Oh, and..

Ah, they had a few of those in the Oxfam on Bold Street recently - by the time I went back with money, they'd gone. Bugger?

..that's always one of the first places I visit when I pop down to Liverpool! I got loads of Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee issues in there!

[TwoHeadedBoy]

I've just read on Lew Stringer's blog that Classics from the Comics is finishing in October.

Well, it's October, and I got the new issue today, with no mention whatsoever of closure - rather, an exciting "Next Issue" advert, and an editorial in the letters bit about all of the "exciting things" that they have planned...

[SpecChum81]

From about 2 or 3 my mum used to by me Playtime, which featured BBC Characters such as Potman Pat, King Rollo and The Mr. Men!

Was that the one that used to feature Sooty & Sweep and The Moomins?

That was Playgroup, which I also have a few issues of from 1984 and 1895!

Funtime was the BBC comic I have, only I got the title confused!

Both of which featured games and puzzles!

I also have a few Jack And Jill comics, which also featured a few BBC characters such as the Little Miss!

Also got loads of Thomas The Tank Engine comics, a few Postman Pat comis, and a couple of issues of the Sooty Comic!

[martin_lovick]

beano, dandy, beezer, 2000AD

recently discovered marvel essential xmen TPBs - great stuff

[Morkin]

I've just read on Lew Stringer's blog that Classics from the Comics is finishing in October.

Well, it's October, and I got the new issue today, with no mention whatsoever of closure - rather, an exciting "Next Issue" advert, and an editorial in the letters bit about all of the "exciting things" that they have planned...

I think I read somewhere that it was too late to remove the next issue advert or that it had already gone to print, or something like that. I'm sure that the editor emailed Lew that it was ending.

EDIT

From Lew's blog.

Here's an advance look at the cover to issue 175 of Classics from the Comics, on sale next week. Sadly this is the final issue of D.C. Thomson's long running reprint monthly and no similar title is currently planned to substitute it.

I understand that this issue actually advertises issue 176 for next month, so presumably the cancellation was a last minute decision made after issue 175 had shipped to the printers.

News of the comic ending was announced here last month following an e-mail announcement from the editor Garry Fraser. My thanks to Garry for sending me the cover previews over the past few months and for producing a fine comic. I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing him well for the future.

[Morkin]

I see that the new look Dandy is released next week. Anyone going to pick it up for old time's sake?

[SpecChum81]

I see that the new look Dandy is released next week. Anyone going to pick it up for old time's sake?

I don't think I'll be buying it, but I may well have a flick through when I'm next in Smith's!

I did always love Dandy...

[Morkin]

Can't stand Harry Hill.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Got a letter through the post from DC Thompson today, confirming that my subscription to Classics From The Comics has been refunded

On a happier note, I got that new Dandy the other day. It has a lot of the artists from the short-lived DFC, and has a few amusing bits in it. Only Desperate Dan, Bananaman and Korky the Cat have survived the transition, and none of them are recognizable by anything other than name. Pre-Skool Prime Minister is VERY funny, but the rest is a bit... strange.

"New" characters include Harry Hill, Simon Cowell, Noel Edmonds, Jeremy Clarkson, Cheryl Cole, Bruce Forsyth, those meercats from the adverts, that Go Compare singer man, The Bogies, Count Snotula... Yeah.

Obviously not as good as the original Dandy, but MILES better than The Dandy X-Treme.

[SoupDragon]

Korky the cat lives on? Cool

What was the name of that elf who was always nicking things in the Dandy? (Think it was Dandy)

[StickHead]

Usual suspects:

Beano
Dandy
Whizzer and Chips
Beezer
Oink
Whoopee

When I was ill (I was about 5 I think) my Mum's best friend brought around a selection of comics (mostly Dandy and Beano) from a collection she had in her loft. I remember they had prices like 2d on them, so they were seriously old. I devoured them, they were bloody brilliant and even better than the contemporary versions (1995). I'd give anything to thumb through those again.

[bsg]

I'd completely forgotten about Scream, it was properly scary as a kid, I'd love to read them again and see if I was just being a wuss. Without looking on the 'net I remember stories about a murderous, hunchback retard called 'Uncle Terry' who was locked away in someones attic, The 13th Floor (can only remember the title), a story about a pack of murderous domestic cats and another about a murderous Punch and Judy show. I'm going to look it up, see what horrific repressed memories I can exhume.

http://backfromthedepths.co.uk/ Enjoy dude

I used to read the following (my dad (RIP) used to buy me 2 every day, plus sweeties to go with them )

Commando
Warlord
Scream
2000ad
Eagle
Star Wars weekly
Beano
Dandy
Tiger
Hotspur
Whizzer and Chips
TV Comic
Topper
Dr Who weekly

God I was quite spoilt as a child

[deadpan666]

I'd completely forgotten about Scream, it was properly scary as a kid, I'd love to read them again and see if I was just being a wuss. Without looking on the 'net I remember stories about a murderous, hunchback retard called 'Uncle Terry' who was locked away in someones attic, The 13th Floor (can only remember the title), a story about a pack of murderous domestic cats and another about a murderous Punch and Judy show. I'm going to look it up, see what horrific repressed memories I can exhume.

http://backfromthedepths.co.uk/ Enjoy dude

Just reading the Hallowscream 2010 Scream fan-comic that the folks at Back From The Depths have done...My brother's just literally finished putting it together...He also did the "Terror of the Sheep" amongst other things...

You can download it from here...

http://www.clickwheel.net/features/308?episode_id=3293