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Alf Tupper, The Tough Of The Track. He could run and win almost any race over any distance after eating his "Two cod and chips".
Captain Hurricane and his batman Maggott Malone. So many,so many. |
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The Amazing Mr X, from The Dandy in 1944 was the first British superhero.
spaintv, although the comic libraries were only for Beano, Dandy, and some of the girls titles (those were shortlived), Beezer and Topper characters would appear in Dandy Comic Libraries, and The Dandy's Bananaman even appeared in a few Beano ones when he was in Nutty comic. |
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I bought the Beano and my brother bought the Dandy. Favorite strips were Dennis the Menace of course and the Bashstreet Kids..... Korky the cat was, to be honest, rubbish!! (although I will concede that DD was quite good)
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Yep, I used to get all 4 DC Thompson releases, Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper and a couple of others, Buster and Whizzer and Chips.
Still occasionally pick up the Bash Street Kids Annual, and from the same publisher The Broons and Oor Wullie. |
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I bought the Beano and my brother bought the Dandy. Favorite strips were Dennis the Menace of course and the Bashstreet Kids..... Korky the cat was, to be honest, rubbish!!
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It just seemed that the Dandy was like the poor man's Beano... only DD came close to the characters the Beano had in it.... Rodger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx just weren't up to scratch.... and why the hell a character as boring as Korky the cat was their cover strip I will never understand.... not that it stopped my reading it though. Just glad I got the Beano first.
Did you join the Dennis the Menace fan club and get that black wallet and other crap that I cant remember now.? |
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It just seemed that the Dandy was like the poor man's Beano... only DD came close to the characters the Beano had in it.... Rodger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx just weren't up to scratch.... and why the hell a character as boring as Korky the cat was their cover strip I will never understand.... not that it stopped my reading it though. Just glad I got the Beano first.
Did you join the Dennis the Menace fan club and get that black wallet and other crap that I cant remember now.? |
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Used to be 2000AD, The Eagle and Commando Comics for me.
I used to love all those. Even the photo-story layout of the relaunched Eagle. Eagle was a lot more traditional than 2000AD. And a lot less scary. Those Yugees and the vapourisation vats in Meltdown Man scared me silly as a kid. But they were also weirdly fascinating. And also those little sci-fi books that were a bit like Battle Picture Library, were they called Starblazer? |
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Beano and Dandy also Sparky, Beezer, Topper, Buster, Hotspur...sister also got Mandy (?) and Bunty. This was back in the early 70`s when comics were comics.
The stories I remember..... .......Billy the Kat (and Katie) ................... Ahh....memories Quote:
Arguably, the first British super-hero? Stirling stuff, to be sure. II also remember reading the thrilling adventures of;
......... .... among others. Happy days. ![]() http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/billycat.htm |
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And anyone remember when Ginger was taken off the cover of the Beezer??? He gave way to True Brit! Anyone remember him?? I cannot find much information about the character, but if I recall correctly he did stay as the cover star for a while, having bumped long-time star Ginger to the insde back pages!
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Remember the back cover of The Dandy?: 'Bully Beef & Chips'.
There was also a science fiction strip, about a baddy alien called Captain Zap, thwarted by an earthling boy and an alien boy (occasionally with the aid of a giant robotic hand, called the 'fizzfist'). 'Winker Watson' and 'Black Bob' were other strips. |
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Weren't they Beano characters?
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And anyone remember when Ginger was taken off the cover of the Beezer??? He gave way to True Brit! Anyone remember him?? I cannot find much information about the character, but if I recall correctly he did stay as the cover star for a while, having bumped long-time star Ginger to the insde back pages!
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There was also a science fiction strip, about a baddy alien called Captain Zap, thwarted by an earthling boy and an alien boy (occasionally with the aid of a giant robotic hand, called the 'fizzfist').
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I took the Beano from my youth until my mid-teens in the mid-90s. I always regarded the Dandy as slightly more 'downmarket', couldn't really rationalise why now.
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It just seemed that the Dandy was like the poor man's Beano... only DD came close to the characters the Beano had in it.... Rodger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx just weren't up to scratch.... and why the hell a character as boring as Korky the cat was their cover strip I will never understand.... not that it stopped my reading it though. Just glad I got the Beano first.
Did you join the Dennis the Menace fan club and get that black wallet and other crap that I cant remember now.? |
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Some of those were in those "Classics from the comics" magazines with old Beano, Dandy, Beezer etc. strips. I used to buy those as well.
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Here's an image of True Brit. The cover is dated 1987. I used to love this strip and preferred it to Ginger who was previously on the over and then got relegated to the inside pages and downgraded from colour to a "red-tinged" colour strip.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jm70Jx1fU-...h/truebrit.jpg |
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December 1987, looks like I had the date about right then.
The Jellymen, from Beezer 1960, are mentioned in that strip. The Beezer featured them in one of the 90s annuals, and they appeared in a Dandy Fun-Size as well. Their most recent appearance was in a Billy the Cat arc in The Beano a year or two ago. |
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They still are. £2 on the third Wednesday of the month from WHSmith, or by subscription.
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They still are. £2 on the third Wednesday of the month from WHSmith, or by subscription.
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Yep, I used to get all 4 DC Thompson releases, Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper and a couple of others, Buster and Whizzer and Chips.
Still occasionally pick up the Bash Street Kids Annual, and from the same publisher The Broons and Oor Wullie.
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I discovered Classics from the comics just a few months ago and have since bought a few issues. great to see the older strips again. A few years ago I bought a Dandy and Beano - the only survivors - and was so disappointed. Gone is the comic feel which has been replaced with a sort of celeb /pop culture magazine with some comic strips in them! i was truly shocked! But then again, I guess thats what kids want nowadays!
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Not any more. The Bash Street Kids annual appears to have been discontinued.
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I used to get The Dandy every week and sometimes The Beano from about 1997 - early 2000's. Me and a friend got The Dandy, but he hated The Beano so I read it in secret. I also got a Beezer book every year for a few years, and a few "Classics from the Comics".
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