What Comics Did You Read?

Beano.
Dandy.
Hotspur.
Hornet.
Beezer.
Topper.
Victor.

I think it was in the Hornet where they had some dude who'd been stranded on a remote island with a football and he used to practice all day long crossing the ball to some Easter Island style big head statues. Naturally he became brilliant, got rescued and played for a top team but he could only play barefoot.

I've never read any comics to be honest.

when i was a bit older (16/17) i really enjoyed Daniel Clowes (David Boring, Ghost World, Art School Confidential) Graphic novels really.

I also picked up the Scott Pilgrim comics out of interest but i didn't enjoy them as much tbh.

Cant remember which one had Alf Tupper the runner who trained on fish and chips even while he was running, victor i think. Would not be allowed today.

I think guys generally reach a point where they get into the Marvel stuff and Superman & Batman etc. and if they're not careful they end up like Sheldon.

I read The Hotspur when I was a boy - indeed I think I even got this annual one Christmas long ago -

Archie and Marvel comics for me. Later on went to Mad and Cracked.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

when i was a bit older (16/17) i really enjoyed Daniel Clowes (David Boring, Ghost World, Art School Confidential) Graphic novels really.

I had to Google Daniel Clowes. I have learnt something today.

Sluffy wrote:I read The Hotspur when I was a boy - indeed I think I even got this annual one Christmas long ago -

Small wonder we started reading our sisters' comics with covers like that around.

Yeah i can remember reading my sisters Bunty in the Back yard lying in the salford sun.

Ah the cosy warm glow brought on by memories of a Salford childhood - keeping ones head below the wall to avoid the bullets. Happy days.

There used to be a character in one of the comics called General Jumbo who controlled an entire model army from his wristwatch. They probably have the technology to do it for real these days. He was a kind of junior Adolf Hitler. In fact, I think he might have been Hitler's love child.

Numpty 28723 wrote:

Sluffy wrote:I read The Hotspur when I was a boy - indeed I think I even got this annual one Christmas long ago -

Small wonder we started reading our sisters' comics with covers like that around.

We were young and much more innocent nearly half a century ago - even the word 'gay' back then simply meant being happy!

Oh how times change!

In 1966 the whole country was gay when we won the world cup.

Shoot and Whizzer and Chips but my personal favourite has to be Viz. ( Britain's best selling pile of shite.)