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degsyhufc
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I started a thread about a book I use to keep my mouse mat on.
That book is the Victor Book for Boys. Boy's adventure stories and a lot of war stories.
I remember having many of these when I was growing up.
The Topper, The Hotspur etc.
I also used to read The Dandy and The Beano, but mainly the hardback annuals.
That book is the Victor Book for Boys. Boy's adventure stories and a lot of war stories.
I remember having many of these when I was growing up.
The Topper, The Hotspur etc.
I also used to read The Dandy and The Beano, but mainly the hardback annuals.
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I've actually just bought a copy of the Dandy annual 1973. Also, comic strip book, Alix & the Sacred Helmet-only the English version is very rare now, so I ordered a copy of the original in French, titled Tiare d'Oribal, from its home country. Also the Armada Sci-Fi story compilations for children, numbers one, two & three, & the Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willan & Ronald Searle, detailing life at a 1950s boys school through the humorous description of a pupil there. I regular reread all these throughout my 70s childhood, but probably gave them barely a look since starting secondary school. It's amazing what feelings & memories revisiting old favourites from your childhood can evoke, years later.
You have to be around my age. l got the Dandy every week, Desperate Dan and cow pie. My husband has old Eagle and Victor annuals somewhere. Girly comics I remember were The Bunty, TheJudy and Girl. I also loved my books from our travelling library. Are they still around? I still have many of my own books from back then.
Whizzer & Chips, and the Commando mini books.
Forgot all about those, buried in a box somewhere.
Thanks!
Still got a complete run in the attic :D:D
Good old Gus Gorilla on the cover. My faves were 'Jasper the Grasper' and 'Hire a Horror', and thought the Gasworks Gang were far better than the Bash Sreet Kids
Sorry - big comics fan
Are they? That's good. It was the highlight of my week from a very young age. They parked outside of our house and I was allowed to go on my own. Very grown up!:D
Lots of comics, like the Dandy & Beano, seemed to use the title, the gasworks gang, for some group of toughs who were not regular characters but were featuring incidentally as rivals to the heroes. Presumably, it was a common gang title, but became obsolete with the abolition of multiple local gasworks-gas production sites- in the 1970s.
http://www.victorbook.info/bcovers2.htm
I loved Spookum School comic strip, about the school for ghosts at night in the attic of an old building. That one appeared in Buzz, then in Cracker.
I have always been a bookworm, and in those days, I loved Enid Blyton's Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Malory Towers, The Twins at St Clares.
loved the ST Clares series :D
did anyone read the Malcolm Saville books? (The Lone Pine Club)
Didn't use to get the comic, but got the 1972 & 1973 annuals second-hand, a couple of years after they came out, & both of them were brilliant-though I think comic producers would nowadays be wary of including a character like Shiner, who was portrayed as the story hero, while regularly blacking eyes, bloodying noses & knocking out teeth.
Can't remember who they were off the top of my head.
I didn't know this! I have just googled, but nothing came up.
i googled and the i first result i got was FIona Bruce
They also used to give away Wham bars and Highland Toffee bars.
The Lone Pine Club rings a bell Was there a girl called Petronella in those books? Don't want to google as is far more fun finding out in other ways