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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
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
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