Comic names from yesteryear

[andrec]

Don't think I ever got a Countdown annual, but I seem to remember that the weekly comic was produced on rather cheap-feeling paper. I think there was a strip based on the Gerry Anderson live-action series UFO, and one issue included a colour full-page picture of Ed Bishop as Straker.

[L_Rivett]

Playhour anyone remember the Mr Men Mobile that you made up over several weeks
Jack and Jill
Pippin
Buttons
Robin
Twinkle
Storytime
Rupert's Storytime
Story Teller
Oink!
off topic but advertised in these comics - the Humpty Dumpty Club

[andrec]

Trying to remember the comics I would have had as a very young child. Maybe Pippin, it rings a faint bell, but don't think I had any of the others in the post above, though Robin keeps nudging me. The earliest I can remember with clarity is TV21 in 1968, when I would have been 6 years old. I recall very clearly there used to be letters from readers, and one was from a boy who said his house was haunted by a ghost who appeared, I think, on the landing. That really scared me, but for some reason I was drawn to read it each time I picked up that issue.

[Richard1978]

The amusingly named Bimbo was a comic for younger children, I remember me & my brother having an annual when we were young.

[beccabear67]

Maybe Pippin, it rings a faint bell

Here too... it had Barnaby Bear in it (which was Colargol where it originated), I loved those stop-motion films of him! I just looked Pippin up and it also had Pogle's Wood.

[andrec]

Ah, now Pogle's Wood I do remember. I had a Pogle's Wood annual one year, and maybe that's why Pippin jogs my memory.