Comics past and present

[shagpuss]

Just started buying comics for my little boy. He really enjoyed reading a Beano is got him and we’ve now subscribed. Also getting him another comic called The Phoenix which has the benefit of no advertising or crappy plastic toys.
A quick look in my local supermarket and pretty much all the other “comics” are TV/celeb themed with cheap and nasty plastic toys on the front. They have precious little comic strip content inside.
Going back to the 1980s when I was a child there were still many to choose from: Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Buster, Whizzer & Chips etc. Unlike in the US and Japan, our comic industry seems to have sadly declined to almost nothing.
Does anyone here still buy comics for their children? Or what comics did you get as a child? I’ve just been helped my Dad collect old Eagle comics from the 1950s. Love Dan Dare!

 

[Nymzee]

Spawn comics.

 

[McBain]

I read graphic novels

 

[chrismpw]

Used to be given the Dandy as a lad and then went to the Beano. I remember feeling like a right traitor when I asked dad for the Beano instead.
Had the beano for years - still have them somewhere.

 

[McBain]

Used to love Beano - not so much Dandy but it probably changed when i found Viz.

MAD was also a favourite growing up.

 

[Username]

Loved both the Dandy and the Beano

 

[Dylan]

Grew up with the Beano. Was ok.

The real comics....The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Foxtrot......thats where its at!

 

[chrismpw]

Grew up with the Beano. Was ok.

The real comics....The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Foxtrot......thats where its at!

The far side - Jim Unger wasnt it? I have a few of his books.

 

[magicjuan]

Used to go for whichever had a free snap bang toy or fly off whizzy thing that went down the grid or iron on transfers.
We didn't reall go for brand loyalty at 7 years old, then I started to read Das Kapital and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist and put down the Beano...

 

[degsy]

Started on the Beano, went on to The Eagle, then on to The Rover, The Wizard etc. until written word comics went under one by one in the 60s

 

[Toast]

A new updated Roy of the Rovers came out the other day.
Looked awful, but I did only look at the front cover tbf.

 

[Chewbacca]

All the footie ones in the Seventies, Scorcher, Score, Roy of the Rovers. Some great characters/stories

Hot Shot Hamish
Billy’s Boots
Lags Eleven
Jack of Utd & Jimmy of City
Bobby of the Blues (Everpool)

 

[random]

2000AD

Had some excellent characters and stories

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Loved The Beano and the Bash Street Kids were the funniest for me although Roger the Dodger was good too. Looking back it seems to have mostly been parents, neighbours and teachers chasing children around with sticks and slippers to give them a damn good thrashing for minor indiscretions. I'm not sure where the laughs could even come from these days, political correctness gone mad I tell thee.

Dandy was ok, definitely not as good as The Beano though.

Read Spiderman whenever I could but I remember the cost being prohibitive to have too often.

 

[Kurt.]

When I was young my grandad used to buy me dandy and whizzer and chips every week, as I got to about 10 years old he started buying be Shoot and Match. I always loved the little pocket book football stories too.