Your Comic Collection

[scooby365]

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Don't know if you'd class them as comics but I have a large collection of MAD's from the 80's. I loved the art work, the tie in with TV + films, and the fact they were from America. Our local news agent was reliable in getting them in each month so I was relieved when a friends' dad said he could get them for me. He ran a news agents in London. I'd also get the books which came out every so often. Still sat in my loft somewhere ...

[Etch-a-sketch]

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When I was younger in the early 70s I used to read Disney comics mainly and and something called 'Playhour' & Robin. Also used to read Whizzer and Chips and had plenty of Mad magazines.



From about aged 11 to 14 I used to buy horror comics galore. What I loved about them more than anything was the illustrations and I had my favourite artists; like Alex Nino. I also loved how they used earlier stories from the 40s and 50s as well as the 60s and 70s all in one comic. I still have ALL of my horror comics to this day and have a flick through them now and again. I had 'Eerie', 'Haunted Tales', 'Weird Mystery Tales', 'Ghastly Terror', 'Creepy' and tonnes of others.

Our neighbours had friends who owned a newsagent and so any comics that didn't get sold had the covers torn off and were given to the kids...we used to get heaps of free comics off them...but always missing the front page

[frame]

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I dont have any of my old ones,these were Wizzer and Chips and Cor.I do have a subscription for Simpsons comics though.

[Richard1978]

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I've still got a load of Beanos from 1989-92, along with a few annuals, 50th aniversary books comic libraries etc. Most of these are at my parents' house, along with the first Hoot.

Years ago a friend from school had a full run of Wicked, I wonder if he still has them.

[NostalgiaFreak]

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Yes I still have all my comics that I bought when I was a kid (mainly in the 80's)

They've all been packed away in the loft now though for the last ten years.

There's loads of Beano comics, annuals and comic libirarys, a few Dandy's, Marvels, The Hoot (got the first ever issue too), 2000ad, The Real Ghostbusters, Yogi Bear, Wicked (a horror comic which has Slimer on the front cover, and think this is probably really rare as I never see any on ebay, I have the first ever issue of this too), and there's proabably others too which I can't remember.

[Derekflint]

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Major Eazy was quite cool - tracking down the Werewolf brigade after the end of World War 2.

I should get started on collecting Charley's War.

Saw a book on sport comic strips, including Wilson - I would have picked the book up had it mentioned the reprints of it in Spike in the early 80s.

[culnara]

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worth getting ?? i haven't a clue cause i aint got it LOL

[Flash Gordon]

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Ooohhhh - darts for piggy-bank
Did this guy oversee some classic Dredd?
Worth getting?

[culnara]

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I did think Carlos Ezquerra's style of Major eazy seemed Familiar

2000 AD books - Judge Dredd - The Carlos Ezquerra Collection

[Flash Gordon]

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There was a 'Clint Eastwood' character in Battle....Major Eazy
MajorEazy

Although he's also compared to James Coburn in that great war film 'Cross of Iron'..remember that?

Sorry rosso, missed that link.
Words cannot express how cool that looks

[Flash Gordon]

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oh oh oh found 'em all!

these compilation/specials were published as 'Red Dagger'.

The 2 barking dogs /footy story was 'Cast Iron Bill', from Wizard 1973



There are 30 in total, published 1979-1983 .......link here with dates, front cover photo, and the comics that the stories originated from :


Red Dagger: Issue by Issue

background to series (there was a girls' equivalent...Lucky Charm):
http://www.downthetubes.net/features...ger/index.html

Awesome covers - just wanted to re-post them!
Heard of Morgyn the Mighty, but never seen it, until now!

Bet they cost a fortune these days!

[Emettman]

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I didn't know that. My "first contact" would have been about 1966, aged 10, and it didn't occur to me the stories or characters weren't new.

At the start the one or two "text only" stories in the Victor weren't my favourites, and were only tackled if they looked really interesting.

Then I met the "Biggles" books, and the pictures started (sometimes) to be less important.

Worlds of information out there. Thank you for that bit!

[rossobantam]

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a lot of these stories like Tough of TheTrack, and I Flew With Braddock (long before they became cartoon 'strips') from the likes of Rover, Wizard, Hotspur were of course merely scripts/written stories ie no pictures

[Emettman]

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That's a re-print selection I'd never heard of, Rossobantam!

Alf Tupper, Braddock of Bombers, Killer Kennedy...
All Victor characters I grew up with. The first time round!

[weetoon]

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Dave

Top man will show the wife as she is convinced I was havering.

Remember Twisty he was a gobby little so and so but what a left foot.

Midge worked in a shipyard and was bullied but became strong using bits of pipe and stuff.

Cast Iron Bill thanks as it has annoyed me for years.