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Shoot, dandy, beano. 08:07 - Jun 3 with 4764 viewsqpr_1968

what comics/magazines was you brought up on as a kid.

football it had to be shoot.
music, at school it was popswap and teens upwards, melodymaker.
fun comics, dandy and the beano regular.....few others now and again.

remember coming back from Norwich one year on the coach, a couple scousers lent me a magazine to read, wiz or viz can't remember the actual name, I was I bit older then, but remember one character in it called, I think fat slag....how times had changed.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:17 - Jun 3 with 1147 viewsqpr_1968

someone tell me I haven't imagined this.

was there a comic 60's/70's with a character called "spunky and his spider"

maybe in the beezer or the topper.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:25 - Jun 3 with 1132 viewsrsonist

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 10:50 - Jun 3 by MrSheen



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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:29 - Jun 3 with 1121 viewsslmrstid

I was a Beano kid in the 90s, occasionally Dandy. Was it Shoot or Match magazine by then that was the one all the kids had? Can't quite remember.

Sonic the Comic occasionally too. I loved Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails is the reason foxes are my favourite animal. Didn't see the film that was out recently though, not after they made Sonic look just plain weird.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:29 - Jun 3 with 1120 viewsGuppy

I remember the Rs appeared in one edition of the beano I think I still have it in the loft somewhere (that's my loft not the upper or lower!)
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:34 - Jun 3 with 1097 viewswelwynranger

Charlie Buchans football monthly everything you needed about the beautiful game.
Beano, Dandy used to get the annuals every Christmas
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:41 - Jun 3 with 1098 viewsrsonist

I was obsessed with Transformers as a kid. Because the UK published weeklies and the US monthly, Marvel Comics hired people here to fill it out with strips of their own and gave them pretty much free reign to do it (as long as they kept working new toys into it, thus encouraging high character turnover). So what you got was basically ABC Warriors on starter wheels and a nice dose of 2000AD thrill-power for me from the age of 5 on.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:50 - Jun 3 with 1087 viewsted_hendrix

I always looked up to Plug from the Bash Street Kids, he was a hero to me and I kind of wished that when I grew up I'd end up being like him and I'm glad to say I have.

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:53 - Jun 3 with 1079 viewsloftboy

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:50 - Jun 3 by ted_hendrix

I always looked up to Plug from the Bash Street Kids, he was a hero to me and I kind of wished that when I grew up I'd end up being like him and I'm glad to say I have.


And everyone knew someone that was nicknamed plug just because they had goofy teeth!

favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:33 - Jun 3 with 1044 viewsR_from_afar

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:53 - Jun 3 by loftboy

And everyone knew someone that was nicknamed plug just because they had goofy teeth!


A friend of mine used to be a cartoonist for the Beano.

I used to get Roy of the Rovers regularly. The "Millionaire Villa" story, where a millionaire rescues a team on the previso that he can play for them, kept coming to mind when Flav was one of our owners

I was also a Tiger and Scorcher boy and some of the stories were great: Skid Solo, Martin's Marvellous Mini (not that I could pronounce "marvellous" correctly back then), Johnny Cougar the native American wrestler with his beatnik manager, Hot Shot Hamish with his pet ram, Billy's Boots (a professional footballer's old boots bestow magical powers)... Great days. One of the highlights of my Christmas when I was young was reading the annuals my grandparents always got me.

Oh yeah, also Football Family Robinson with the scary battleaxe Ma as manager and Nipper, the urchin who turns out to be an amazing footballer (and later also cricketer).

My brother preferred TV21, with Hoppit! the security guard drop-kicking the pesky autograph hunters loitering outside the television studies.

Great memories.

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:34 - Jun 3 with 1043 viewsW13R

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:34 - Jun 3 with 1041 viewslongbottom

The Hornet and the Victor for me. Alf Tupper, the tough of the track, lived on fish and chips but was still the best middle distance runner in the world!

My dad always bought me World soccer magazine and I used to buy football monthly myself. Now and again I used to buy Amateur footballer but that wasn't easy to get.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:52 - Jun 3 with 1010 viewsEsox_Lucius

Eagle, Hornet & Valiant mostly but my big love was the DC & later, the Marvel comics. I had the first 20+ Green Hornet DC mags, all the Mr. Mxyzptlk appearances in Superman, Bat Fink etc. as well as the first editions of most of the Marvel comics as they appeared in the UK. I had about two tea chests of them but when I got married I only had a 1 bed maisonette so they got dumped. Please don't respond to tell me how many £1000's of pounds some of them are worth; I know sadly. It was the same with my Corgi cars, I had quite a number of the rare ones; all in the bin when I moved out.

The grass is always greener.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:56 - Jun 3 with 994 viewsToast_R

Used to get 90 Minutes, seemed a step up from the more kiddified Match and Shoot magazine.

I was actually in it one issue having been interviewed outside HQ before QPR v Wimbledon in 93/94. They were asking about how do QPR fans feel about the bigger clubs nicking our best players...

Them were the days.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 13:02 - Jun 3 with 984 viewsMickS_

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 10:54 - Jun 3 by Mick_S



I’ve somehow just down arrowed myself. Aieeeeeeeeeee.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 13:55 - Jun 3 with 954 viewsTomS

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 11:10 - Jun 3 by Mick_S



I knew Jacob Rees-Mogg reminded me of someone.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 14:08 - Jun 3 with 940 viewspaulparker

Beano
Dandy
Whizzer & chips ( sounds like a couple of pill heads )
Roy of the Rovers
Match
Shoot
Commando
Warlord
The beezer

Wish I kept them all now I had tons of the things , if it wasn’t nailed down though my old girl would sling it

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 14:56 - Jun 3 with 900 viewsNov77

for some reason the dentists waiting room is where I remember reading most comics. there used to be a pile of them.

Tiger and whizzer and chips I remember most, though no one's mentioned......

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 16:10 - Jun 3 with 873 viewsMrSheen

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:34 - Jun 3 by W13R



Wasn't Faceache in the Beezer? I used to find him genuinely disturbing.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 16:49 - Jun 3 with 850 viewsPunteR

Yeh used to love reading all those mentioned as a kid.
Also Asterix and TinTIn. They were brilliant.

Occasional providers of half decent House music.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 19:37 - Jun 3 with 822 viewsdistortR

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 09:37 - Jun 3 by loftboy

My brother used to get the Cor!! Annual at Christmas, that was a great comic.


you'll never make a monkey out of gus.................
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 20:04 - Jun 3 with 804 viewsqprxtc

The Noddy Magazine, The Beano, Shoot, Film Review, Smash Hits, Escort, Men Only, Starburst, Empire, Viz, Mojo, Record Collector, Shindig, Private Eye.
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 21:01 - Jun 3 with 780 viewsTacticalR

Shoot, dandy, beano. on 12:52 - Jun 3 by Esox_Lucius

Eagle, Hornet & Valiant mostly but my big love was the DC & later, the Marvel comics. I had the first 20+ Green Hornet DC mags, all the Mr. Mxyzptlk appearances in Superman, Bat Fink etc. as well as the first editions of most of the Marvel comics as they appeared in the UK. I had about two tea chests of them but when I got married I only had a 1 bed maisonette so they got dumped. Please don't respond to tell me how many £1000's of pounds some of them are worth; I know sadly. It was the same with my Corgi cars, I had quite a number of the rare ones; all in the bin when I moved out.


I can't remember reading Beano. That was like, kid's stuff. I liked the Trigan Empire, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, and above all Thor. All my American comics disappeared when I was away at university and my mum gave them to a Scout troop who came round collecting for a jumble sale.


Air hostess clique

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 22:43 - Jun 3 with 740 viewsDWQPR

Given that Dad had a newsagents and general store I used to get a free read of most comics. Beans, Whizzer and Chips and later on Whoppee (I think used to have a lead character called Cheeky on it who used to wear a cap and looked a bit like Luke Chadwick. Roy of the Rovers was a must, loved the Melchester kit. Shoot was always a given on a Thursday and late July/early August it came with the league ladders. Kids of today would laugh at us for getting so excited over bits of coloured cardboard to plot each division. But they were great. Never got into the action comics, for me comics were to laugh at. One of my favourite comics not mentioned so far was Sparky. Had a character called Baron Von Reich Pudding, a WW1 German flying ‘ace’. The total lack of PC from these innocent publications that were consumed by us kids back then. Wonderful days.

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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 23:03 - Jun 3 with 731 viewsbob566

The eagle with Dan dare. Beano and w & c. Warlord. All the German pilots died saying gott in himmell. 2000 ad with dread and rogue trooper. Then later loved viz. Loved Jack black in that and spoilt baasstard
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Shoot, dandy, beano. on 21:56 - Jun 4 with 639 viewskomradkirk

Was there a magazine called GOAL maybe very late sixties ?
My mate always got it,we couldn't afford it.

I had Beano and Dandy every week and "Oor Wiullie" and "The Broons" annuals at Christmas.
Must have been our Jock ancestors coming through.
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