Dandy
Beano
Hoot
Thundercats
Zoids
Transformers
Secret Wars

Buster - I was reading it when they changed the main character artist and ruined him

Jinty http://www.britishcomics.com/Jinty/jintynumber1.htm

I remember wearing the free bracelet, it was well cheap.

I must have read it for @3 years. When I left home my dad gave them all away, he thought I didn't want them anymore, gutted.

I well remember Bunty - started getting that when it was 4p, my big sister read it too and remembered some of the '4 Mary' stories from when she was younger (they looped them).

Was MYGuy one of the early photo story ones?

The Beano was always number one with me (Rodger the Dodger was king) but I also enjoyed The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips (Sweetooth and 'Odd Ball').

I used to get so excited when it was time for the Beano 'Comic Libraries' to come out at the end of the month - they were just fantastic.

Oh to be a kid again and feel those emotions again

Incidentally on the odd occasion I went abroad I enjoyed 'Archie' and 'Jughead Jones' which are still going - and look to be in the same format

That's Roger the Dodger. He's one of my faves too. No need to go abroad to get those US comics, just go to your local Forbidden Planet or other comic book shop - I've seen Archie in Amazing Fantasy, my local comics shop.

When I was younger I used to get Bunty, Mandy, and Judy everyweek - and when another comic came out called Nikki I started collecting that as well.

I used to collect the monthly comic books as well, there used to be two published every month and I used to con my dad into buying them for me. (he used to read all my comics as well).

My Aunt always used to by me the Bunty Annual at christmas as well and I still have a fair few of these in a top cuboard along with quite a few of my old comics (must dig these out and have a read of them again when I get a chance)

Are you talking UK or American here ?

I cant agree with the rip off statement. The UK marvel comics were obvious reprints, but great value for money and as a kid I lapped them up. We cant really forget Captain Britain evolved based on the UK arm of Marvel, they really were a powerhouse in the 70's. Thats based on a very shakey start - the 60's I believe they published there stories in POW! and other named comics. When it comes to DC they equally had a bad run in the 60's.

So I have to say UK wise Marvel I remember more than DC

Then again I was equally at home with TV comic lol

Oh boy the memories! From mid-sixties, I always had The Beano, Dandy, Buster, Whizzer & Chips, Cor!, Beezer. Then I went onto american ones like Amazing Stories, Batman, Spiderman etc. I think my last one in my teens was probably Look-In (although I continued with the british version of Spiderman for a while till I was about 17).

Started reading the beano & dandy in late 70's and they were my faves cos they didnt have any adverts in them ( bash st kids my fav story,still is ) However I was such a british comic buff that I would buy whatever was on the shelves - buster, whoopee ( once won a tshirt off them ) whizzer & chips, scream, school fun, eagle,nutty,topper. There was two main comic producers back then - dc thompson & IPC magazines. A lot of the IPC comics were short lived but they had fantastic strips in em - bumpkin billionaires, winners the list is endless.

Its tragic innit ? I bet 90% of the people posting on this thread have binned/burned/giveaway most of their comics/annuals when they reached late teens - I did but Ive started all over collecting annuals cos the wife gets me em every xmas.
If only we knew then what the future worth would be

I agree

Marvel UK is getting a bit of a pasting here and im not sure why.

I loved them as a kid. Getting Boat editions of US comics in the 70's was very hit and miss in small towns. The UK arm made them obtainable and affordable

There was an equal mix of reprint american covers and new covers to these stories. Sometimes, because the monthly title was split into 2 or 4 issues there was re-drawn art.

Each week during the mid 70's (1975/76) the issues went Landscape and introduced pinup centre spreads.

For the UK pence price, you got a prety good deal.

And yes Captain Britain happened here - I think Night Raven started here as well (not sure of the character name exactly) I think that was in Hulk Comic in the later part of the 70's

Loved my Uk comics like TV comic as well.

DC I dont remember much from my childhood as a UK reprint. I do however remember seeing the Boat imprints from time to time

ages7-11: beano, whizzer & chips, cheeky, 2000ad, star wars weekly,shogun warriors, look & learn (trigan empire!)

11-12: star wars weekly, the micronauts

13-15: x-men (and anything related!), new mutants, captain britain, daredevil, iron man, cloak & dagger, crises on infinite earths, thor, fantastic four, batman

15-16: love & rockets, electra, dark knight returns, watchmen american flagg!

Then I moved onto music.... Occasionally, if I'm in London, I'll pop into forbidden planet and check out x-men to see how my old favs are doing (Rogue, nightcrawler, shadowcat), its a guilty pleasure!

oops! I forgot, the very first comic I read was 'playhour', which featured rupert the bear, I seem to remember, it always had a carousel on the cover, there was a strip in it about a family of beans! Runner bean, coffee bean, mung bean...etc, which for some reason fascinated me....

I was a child of the 60's, when the UK comic scene was quite healthy, thank you very much, not like now ...

I was also quite spoiled. I didn't get any pocket money but I got just about every UK comic coming out at the time.

I also got into American comics and I am pretty sure at one time I had a very early issue of the Fantastic Four (somewhere below issue 5).

Anyhow : UK comics in the 60's. We had DC Thompson : Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper ... later on, the Sparky.

Rover, Hotspur, Hornet, Victor. I even read my sister's comics, such as the Bunty and the Judy.

We had IPC/Fleetway/Odhams : Lion, Tiger, Valiant. Buster, Whizzer and Chips. The Big One. Wham, Pow, Smash. Fantastic, Terrific.

TV 21, TV Comic, TV Tornado. Joe 90 : Top Secret.

I'm sure I'm missing some : but being a child of the 60's I'm old and the memory isn't what it once was. However, I still buy and read American comics to this day. I was imbued with a love for comics that still hasn't died. It is a source of sadness for me that the UK comic market that was so healthy in the early 60's has all but died. Even in my youth, I remember comics merging left right and centre; it was already the beginning of the end.

I used to read the usual kids comics (Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips etc.)

But I also read a comic called 'Champ' in the mid eighties which had a fantastic football comic strip called 'We Are United'.

It was completely different from Roy of the Rover, a once great club that had fallen on hard times; the team actually lost games and in the early issues were even relegated.

In the summer, during the close season, I think they had 'flashback' strips which would recount the club's greater days, playing in Europe.

The early eighties version of Eagle with the original photostrip of Doomlord.

There was short lived comic called Scream in the mid eighties.

Buzz

Beano

Buster

Whizzer and Chips

Sparky

Topper

Beezer

Cheeky Weekly

2000AD

Victor

Warlord

Action

Score

Loads of US comics but can't remember the names.

Dandy, Beano, Roy of the Rovers (hated footy, but the storylines were excellent), The Beezer & Topper when they merged. Also occaisonally read Whizzer & Chips.

If I was bored and had some spare cash after spending my money on sticker albums and sweets, I'd pick up one of the DC comics.

I was a child of the 90s so the Beano and Dandy were the main ones for me. I also had some Pokemon comic books as well (still have them lying around somewhere actually).

Dandy, Beano, Valliant, Victor, Hotspur, Beezer, Topper, Buster (Son Of Andy Capp).
I can just about remember getting Whizzer and Chips (I may not have got the spelling right) but then there were "The Summer Specials" that were twice the size and made the summer holidays so much better.

I used to read anything I could get my hands on.

Funny stuff like Beano, Dandy, Nutty, Whizzer and Chips.

Victor, Commando, Battle, Eagle, 2000AD, Scream (for it's short run)

Used to love all the Marvel US stuff. Daredevil was great. But with the nature of comics distribution in the UK in the early 80's it was difficult to follow them issue by issue. Plus you would have Marvel UK doing anthology reprints of the early stuff from the 60's so one minute you'd be reading incredibly cheesy Daredevil stuff where he's trading one-liners with Stilt Man or fighting Captain America. Next one you'd get would be on a family shopping trip to the ASDA and it's one of Frank Miller's with Daredevil shooting the Punisher after they've teamed up to beat killer drug dealers. Then you'd maybe go on holiday to the seaside and pick up an earlier one where the fatally wounded Elektra is dragging herself through the streets to die in Murdock's arms.

I can remember being really excited getting the Captain Britain Summer Special in 1981 and seeing the new costume. And then not being able to pick it up again until the launch of The Daredevils and "A rag, a bone and a hank of hair". No Forbidden Planets in South Yorkshire in the 80's, it was mostly pot luck.

any 70's kids out there who were Warlord or Fireball agents ???
I was a member of both, and still have the Warlord codebooks and Fireball survival guide & Medallion somewhere . . .

I started on the Knockout-anyone else remember Deed-a-Day Danny?
Next came the Champion-who could forget Rockfist Rogan?

Growing up I read Nutty (it featured Bananaman), Scream, Crisis and 2000AD. I still read 2000AD. My all-time favourite comic. Thrill power guaranteed.

I used to buy computer magazine Zzap 64 and sci-fi/fantasy movie mag Starburst. Both mags now gone to the great magazine graveyard in the sky.

I love Roger the Dodger, I sometimes used to wish I could come up with dodges the way he did to get me out of sticky or boring situations