Free classic Uk comics in Guardian newspaper
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For fans/collectors of classic Uk comics:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/
Starting next Saturday, 12th September, The Guardian newspaper will be giving away a reproduction of a classic British comic every day for a week. As there is no Sunday edition of the paper, The Observer will also be involved in the scheme on September 13th.
The classic reprints all come from the Egmont and D.C.Thomson stable of comics, and appear to be mostly 1980s editions. Kicking off with a copy of girls' comic Jackie next Saturday, followed by The Beano No.2000 (from 1980) on Sunday, the rest of the week will see copies of Roy of the Rovers, Bunty, Dandy, Tammy, and Whizzer and Chips presented with the paper.
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Link to the exact entry on Lew's blog: http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2009/09/free-comics-in-guardian.html
I have discovered I am mostly Bs in the How Romantic Are You? quiz (I don't love lightly. My feelings go deep and are unfathomable... So true), that it's not a good idea to bleach your teeth with peroxide if they're a bit yellow according to Cathy and Claire and that Donny loves Spaghetti and tacos.
Excellent!
FORGOT!!
Just discovered swear words I never knew.
MUST buy Observer tomorrow with the Beano 2000.
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There were two mistakes, but they're both positive - it was stapled instead of glued, and they used the higher grade type of paper used in 1988-2008 instead of the newsprint which was originally used in 1980. LOLed at Minnie having a copy of The History of The Beano 28 years before such a book was actually published.
Argh! Missed it!
Must remember to buy when they include Tammy and Whizzer and Chips!
Mighty Mouse and The Hard Man were my favourites, but I prefered Tiger back in the day.
Gave Bunty a miss today but will pick up the Dandy tomorrow.
Interesting to see all these 16 year old girls with jobs in the stories and the class war in full flow.
"For over 30 years I have carried the emotional scars of a censored childhood.
My mother refused to let us read Bunty on the grounds that it was trash, so thanks for putting me out of my misery. She was right"
I didn't understand back then that they were meant to be scottish and Newcastle lads. I had no idea what a geordie was.
Even today, I'm fascinated by the pencil thin calves of a couple of the Geordies.
Got the Dandy today. Excellent though I was never a huge fan of it. Friday is the big day for me - Whizzer and Chips!!!
:cool: Can't wait.
It's been fun checking these out but I wish they'd selected issues that were originally published on the main days of the year - Christmas, New Year, Easter and Bonfire Night. Now those would really have been collectors items.
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You remember right about Countdown, it later renamed to TV Action.
If I see a pile of old comics I always look for the Christmas, New Years first. It was always a tradition in my house to buy every comic goiing on the run up to Xmas and these would be wrapped up like a present to be opened on the big day. Talking the early 60's here mind
Whizzer and Chips? It was great! I loved it though not as much as Cor! That was a great comic imho. Gus the Gorilla
Looking forward to tomorrow.
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It was also, as far as I recall, the first girl's comic to do the major struggling through adversary in a big way.
It's been a fun week.
Aaah! KRAZY! My absolute favorite comic. I remember being gutted when they "merged" it with Whizzer and Chips. I remember the newsagent who reserved Krazy for me, just started reserving W+C instead, so i moved onto that, only for the Krazy strips, like "The Krazy Gang".
Funny how the comics merged all the time, like a knockout competition . I loved Monster Fun , which merged with Buster. Krazy merged with W+C. Cheeky Weekly merged with Whoopee. I think then "in the semi-final" , W+C merged with Whoopee. until there was only Buster and Whoopee left from that stable. (I am not counting Dandy and Buster and the girly or football ones). Am I remembering this right?
Also, the suspicious "new" comics, like the brilliant "School Fun" which only lasted about six months before merging, and so seemed to only exist as a way of trying out new material for the big names.