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How much did your first comic cost?
I remember going to my local shop and buying the Dandy in 1977 for 6p.
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I think my first Transformers UK comic cost about 30p... I think it was issue 28 or something... possibly 1984/85ish
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My first comic would have been The Beano in 1984 which I think cost 12p at the time.
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40p for a copy of the Beano in 1997.
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At the risk of being the oldest person on here:
My first UK comic I can remember buying (I had plenty bought for me before that) was Smash. I was about 7 or 8. It cost 6d (1p = 2.4d) pre-decimal. My first American comic was a Showcase Spectre issue, shortly afterwards. American comics were 10d. They had just gone up from 9d. They soon went up again to 1 shilling ready for decimalization which was 5p. |
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8p for The Beano
20p for The Eagle |
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8p - 10p I think for 2000AD in the 70's.
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At the risk of being the oldest person on here:
My first UK comic I can remember buying (I had plenty bought for me before that) was Smash. I was about 7 or 8. It cost 6d (1p = 2.4d) pre-decimal. My first American comic was a Showcase Spectre issue, shortly afterwards. American comics were 10d. They had just gone up from 9d. They soon went up again to 1 shilling ready for decimalization which was 5p. First comic books were FF# 66 and DD # 33 in September '67 from Coventry market, a shilling each. Very powerful memory of the former. |
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My first Comic was the Beezer. It cost 3d. in 1956.
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The Beano, which I think cost 20p at the time.
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7p I think for the first 2000AD in 77, still getting it every week altho it's considerably more than 7p now lol
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7p I think for the first 2000AD in 77, still getting it every week altho it's considerably more than 7p now lol
For me it would've been 5p for a copy of Warlord a couple of years earlier, I've still got the free gift! |
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The earliest I can remember the price of is Action 7p in 1976, but I'd previously had Shiver & Shake, Whizzer & Chips, Whoopee, Disney Weekly, Warlord, Battle before Action came out so I'd guess 4p or 5p.
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I remember buying Superman (Action Comics) for 6d aound 1955 to 1959. They had a printed price of 10c but rubber stamped in purple ink of 6d.
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10d with 'Thorpe & Porter' stamped on.
This was my first comic http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/im...Batman_186.jpg The clown guy actually gave me nightmares and my mom actually said "No more comics for you!" Of course this was never to be ... |
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£2.48 for BeanoMAX issue 15 back in April 2008 in Smiffy's across the road. (Don't know if it's actually called Smiffy's, but they sell stuff under a name called Smiffy's.). Never looked back since. The contents for that issue:
1: Cover 2: The Lowdown 3: Advert 4: Dennis & Gnasher 7: Subscription offer 8: When Nature Goes Wrong! 10: Deep In The Sumatran Rainforest... 12: Baby-Face Finlayson 14: The Arcade 16: Games Gurus! 17: Bash Watch 22: Max Poster 24: Weird 'n' Wild Creatures! 26: Minnie the Minx 29: Beano Club 30: Creature Conundrums 32: The Bash Street Kids 35: Fashion Victims 36: MAX-imum 38: Max! 42: BeanoMAX advert 43: The Bash Street Kids 44: Advert |
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10d with 'Thorpe & Porter' stamped on.
This was my first comic http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/im...Batman_186.jpg The clown guy actually gave me nightmares and my mom actually said "No more comics for you!" Of course this was never to be ... |
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12p in '77 Think it was a marvel Two-in-One when alicia masters became a big spider-thing
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When I was about 7/8 my mum used to buy me the Beano but I never really knew how much it cost.
The first comics I remember buying where from my local comic shop. Three random back issues in one pack for £1. I don't remember 2 of the comics, but the third was definitely Daredevil. I also remember buying Marvel Civil War during Uni and them costing about £1.80. Now I pay anywhere between £2.20 and £3.00. |
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24p or 28p for a Beano.
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I used to get Beano and Dandy when I was a little kid but I can't for the life of me remember what they cost
I first started buying 2000AD in 1984 with Prog 359 which cost 20p This week's prog, 1764 cost £2.35 |
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£11.99 for Buffy Season 8 Volume 1 last year!
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The earliest I can remember the price of is Action 7p in 1976, but I'd previously had Shiver & Shake, Whizzer & Chips, Whoopee, Disney Weekly, Warlord, Battle before Action came out so I'd guess 4p or 5p.
It was nicknamed "The Sevenpenny nightmare" at the time by the do gooders because of its content. Got it from Issue 1 and all the annuals too. The content was class - Dredger, Hook Jaw, Hellman Of Hammer Force, Spinball etc.. Only comic in the UK to be banned and so looking forward to Titan's "Best Of Action" published this Spring!
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My earliest comic would have been Pippin, very early 70s. A comic then would have been about two pence, I imagine.
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