which comic?

[Richard1978]

Re: which comic?

I remember the Beano annuals were black / white & a 3rd colour inside until the late 1980's, though the Bash Street Kids & Dennis the Menace ones from the same time were in full colour.

Also the seemed to be produced quite a bit before they went on sale, so some newer characters wouldn't be featured until they had been in the comic more than a year.

[Trickyvee]

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I was rummaging through a box of old comic annuals at a car boot fair the other day and recognised some of the Dandy annuals I once had from their front covers. I was surprised how little I remembered about their contents though. I had forgotten most of the characters and even the stories didn't ring bells, yet I treasured those annuals at one stage! I'd even forgotten how they used black and red print inside.

[Richard1978]

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It was a little confusing that Action Force where known as GI Joe in the USA.

Different names of products is almost worth a thread to it's own.

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My late Father used to by me Battle Action Force every Thursday in 1985-86, sometimes he'd buy me something else like Victor if it wasn't there or if he'd probably forget to buy it for me. Used to cost 26p....When IPC's licence to publish BAF ended, it became Battle 'with Storm Force' and I stopped liking it really. Basically Battle used to have Action Force as their 'star' stories.....When Hasbro relaunched Action Force in the UK in 87, Marvel did the comic which Dad kindly bought me every week. 32p then. When that folded, they merged reprints from the American G.I.JOE comic into the pages of Transformers again by Marvel UK and Dad bought me that every week-he'd miss a few weeks once in a while...Sometimes they'd have different back up strips like Visionaries or something else like IRON MAN 2020, or MACHINE MAN-again older Marvel reprints. I would have also liked him to buy me Marvels ACTION FORCE monthly comic, made in the smaller US style but he said 'one is enough!'....By the 90s I did start buying US comics, especially G.I.JOE, X-MEN TITLES and CAPTAIN AMERICA for a while from local comic shops but the stories were either too boring, too convoluted to follow, or never in stock, or just plan expensive...I don't really buy US comics anymore-waste of money. I liked the older comics from our youth naturally-the art was either childlike and rough or brilliant and recalling newsprint style paper and how the ink used to smudge our fingers takes me back to simpler times....I wish I were that child again awaiting in eagerness on a Thursday evening for my Father to come home and hand me my comic....

[scotland]

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I used to get Topper. I think it came out on a friday.
My brother got the beano every week.

[Sly]

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Gotta be the Beano. My cousin used to get the Dandy and we used to read each others, but I wasn't too fond of the regular strips in the Dandy. I found some of them quite irritating and I couldn't get on with the art style.

I bought a Beano for my 6 year old cousin recently and it cost me over a quid! It used to be 30p tops when I was a kid.

[Trickyvee]

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Can anybody remember a cartoon called Richard's snitch from the Beano in the 90s? It was a boy who had a talking nose with a face. I discovered it when I bought a Beano for old time's sake as a student. Thought it was hilarious and would love to see it again.

[marilynd04]

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Definitely has to be the Beano. I used to buy it for my son - but loved reading it myself

[darren]

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for me.
dandy beano and others i cannot remember.
they still do them dont they.

[Megawitch]

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My sister had "Girl" which was quite colourful and glossy but my parents got "Schoolfriend" for me which was rough paper and poor colours. Later I asked to get Bunty which I preferred. My brother got Beano and Dandy and I liked to read them when I got the chance. My siblings hated to share!

[zip55]

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Beano and Dandy, then Viz later.

[Richard1978]

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My Dad used to get Oink! for me & my brother though we were a bit young to understand all the jokes.

[Sharkmerwood]

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For me Beano, dandy, Buster, whizzer and chips and Look in every week. If look in can be called a comic. Though I did buy the odd Eagle and a comic called Oink, ahh good days

[ratboy]

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I was a Beano fan, it was the only comic I would buy religiously every week, maybe with the occasional Buster (wasn't one of the characters x-ray specs??)
I used to like Look-In too.

[ann22]

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Yeah, there was a character called Nigel in Mandy's 'The Living Lie of Laura Hurst'. My sister and I used to kiss him..haha! His face would be transparant with the moisture.