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Buster Comic
Anyone remember this .... Had sooo many gd strips. The winners, Its a nice life, Ivor Lott and Tony Broke etc .... I had such good memorys of Buster comic. I grew up reading It ....
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Here's a very comprehensive website about it: http://www.bustercomic.co.uk/
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I started getting Buster late 1975/early 1976, when Jackpot comic merged with it. I remember Faceache, who could contort his face into grotesque shapes-he called it 'scrunging'-and The Leopard of Lime Street, which was Spiderman with a younger English lad, who had leopard-like powers.
I think it had a strip with a boy who looks after shipwrecked humanoid aliens, who were only a few inches high, in his bedroom. I can't recall what that story was called, though. ETA, just found out the last strip was Pete's Pocket Army (see link). http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/pockarmy.htm |
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Anyone remember this .... Had sooo many gd strips. The winners, Its a nice life, Ivor Lott and Tony Broke etc .... I had such good memorys of Buster comic. I grew up reading It ....
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Yeaaa
glad some people remember it. My mates dont. I absolutely loved it and still do. Shame comics like that dont get appreciated these days
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I have/had a lot of the late 70's/80's Buster Comics as well as Whizzer and Chips, I'm not sure which one I preferred though, which one had The Bumpkin Billionaires and Odd Ball in?
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I have/had a lot of the late 70's/80's Buster Comics as well as Whizzer and Chips, I'm not sure which one I preferred though, which one had The Bumpkin Billionaires and Odd Ball in?
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I have/had a lot of the late 70's/80's Buster Comics as well as Whizzer and Chips, I'm not sure which one I preferred though, which one had The Bumpkin Billionaires and Odd Ball in?
Bumpkins - Whoopee then merged with W&C Both strips were "Whizz-Kids" as was I! haha. I have a huge fondess for the IPC/DC Thompson comics during the height of my fandom 1982-1987 - then they all went rubbish - or maybe I outgrew them! I still have most of them in the attic! |
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I got the Buster every week as a nipper and would sit down and read it cover to cover which probably took about half an hour or more.
The current Beano which my kids occasionally buy takes about five minutes to read cover to cover, it’s just adverts and barely readable strips with about six panels per page. No wonder kids have lost interest in comics ![]() r.i.p. the British comics industry
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Odd Ball survived into Buster's final issue in 2000, W&C having merged with it in 1990.
Six panels a page? That's an exaggeration, it's usually double that. I know you used to get 20 panels to a page though. Beano is the last survivor of the traditional comics.
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I have/had a lot of the late 70's/80's Buster Comics as well as Whizzer and Chips, I'm not sure which one I preferred though, which one had The Bumpkin Billionaires and Odd Ball in?
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Topper was a good comic as well, also the Beezer.
I used to get the monthly comic books as well, and the summer specials. Good times |
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Topper was a good comic as well, also the Beezer.
I used to get the monthly comic books as well, and the summer specials. Good times |
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I loved Danny's Tranny, in Topper, and Numskulls and Blubba, in the Beezer.
I think I still have some annuals knocking about in a box in a cupboard somewhere. |
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Danny's Tranny sounds like it is straight out of Viz, but it does ring a bell. I used to read all those old comics in the 70s. Monster Fun was my absolute favourite.
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Danny's Tranny sounds like it is straight out of Viz, but it does ring a bell. I used to read all those old comics in the 70s. Monster Fun was my absolute favourite.
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Memories of Buster - them changing the Buster artist and me not liking the new one and the Leopard from Lime Street
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Memories of Buster - them changing the Buster artist and me not liking the new one and the Leopard from Lime Street
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They also had a multi-issue black and white series involving a whole bunch of mechanic dinosaurs reeking havoc after going all doolalee (for some reason)
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Their version of Spiderman. I liked that, too. I think the Beano had a similar character, called Cat Boy, or something. He was in the 1972 annual that I had.
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I loved Jackpot as a kid, and find it hard to believe that it only ran three years before merging with Buster.
It seemed to run for years and years, but I guess our perceptions of time are very different when we're young. It's a pity you can't get comics like Buster, Jackpot and Whizzer and Chips digitally, so they could be revisited on an iPad. Desk |
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I loved Jackpot as a kid
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It's a pity you can't get comics like Buster, Jackpot and Whizzer and Chips digitally, so they could be revisited on an iPad. Desk Egmont should bring it back as a monthly digital publication and see what the reaction is. |
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I can remember going to my local newspaper shop and buying Buster, it was really good. I recall the comic being sold as "Buster (son of Andy Capp)" and although the comic was never drawn by Reg Smyth it often had Andy in the story line if only just bits of him as the stories were done from his son's point of view. I do remeber in one story we got a full drawing of Andy (I always read Andy Capp in the Daily Mirror) but it was a bad atempt at drawing him.
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glad some people remember it. My mates dont. I absolutely loved it and still do. Shame comics like that dont get appreciated these days
