What comics did you read as a child?

Think my last favourite was Valentine, when younger the beano, dandy and Bunty .. I still have an old Valentine comic somewhere

Bunty and later on jackie

I wasn’t allowed comics as the only one that had ever entered the house ( via a neighbour ) had a spelling mistake and incorrect use of grammar. I made do with the next door neighbours cowboy novels. I recall my godmother asking me if I wanted a comic bought once, yet refusing as I preferred a liquorice whirl. Those long strips of black wound around a jelly sweet.

Penelope - a spin-off of the Thunderbirds franchise.
And Look and Learn. Straight to the back for the comics…

I had Judy and my friend had Bunty and we used to swap once we had read them

I used to read Diana, Jackie and Fabulous (pop star mag). Later on, I liked Petticoat and Rave.

I found some vintage copies of Petticoat recently and was surprised about how 'wordy' the articles were compared to modern magazines for young women.

Didn’t have any comics. Had a lot of books and went to the library almost every day on the way home from school.

My parents chose which I could have …. I wanted Schoolfriend but was obliged to have Girl.?‍♀️

I had June and Schoolfriend and then Jackie when I got older. But mum didn't approve of comics so had to hide the Jackie one!

Girls Crystal

When I was quite young, my cousin used to pass on her copies of Twinkle, but as soon as I was old enough to have my own delivered, I had the Beano. Later, Smash Hits and NME joined that delivery.

I used to sometimes buy myself Jackie and Blue Jeans because the problem pages were quite juicy .

I read Bunty and 'Look and Learn'. My sister had Jackie. We also had a magazine called , 'The Elizabethan' when we were older. I also sometimes read 'The Princess'.

Never read comics. My father bought Dandy and Beano, ostensibly for my sister and I but they were really for him [ semi literate all his life] I did enjoy my uncles copy of John Bull and failing that my grandfathers new paper.

Mum bought me Princess Tina, and my older sister had Bunty. My Aunty bought me Tammy and my sister Jackie. We both read them all then Mum gave them to a girl a few doors away who never got any. Comics never seemed to be so expensive. Now they are astronomical.

I was usually only bought comics when we went on holiday in the summer, because I kept complaining I was bored! I remember Twinkle, Bunty, Mandy and Judy. If I asked for comics at home I was told there were plenty of books to read without wasting money on comics. But I was taken to the library once a month. By the time I reached my teens I preferred books to comics.

I too started off with Robin then went on to Harold Hare if that was what the comic was actually called. After that Princess from I was ten. I think I lost interest in it when I was about fourteen, but by then I was allowed to read my mother¨s magazines (Woman's Own and Woman's Weekly).

All through my childhood I was allowed to read Oor Wullie and The Broons in the Sunday papers on the strict understanding that I did not read anything else in the papers.
(I had been badly upset, just before the abolition of the death sentence on catching sight of a notification of a hanging in Edinburgh. I had not actually read the paper on that occasion, my mother had stupidly left it lying on the floor beside her chair and sent me in to tidy the sitting-room and the headline caught my eye. After that I was not allowed to look at newspapers at all.)

The ban on newspaper reading was lifted when I was 15 as I remember reading about the Six-Day War and about the Prague spring.
My great-aunt, after checking the rest of the back page of the Scottish Daily Express carefully, let me read Rupert Bear. practically from the day I learnt to read.

When I was very young I had beanie and my older DB had a dandy , then when slightly older I had Bunty and he had Topper . We swapped comics with each other every week.
As a teenager I got Jackie and had the posters all over my bedroom walls.

girl, school friend and later mirabelle

Cycorax

I wasn't allowed comics either, but managed to read them if my friends brought them into school. I remember, Girl, Beano, Bunty, Dandy, among others. My mother subscribed to a very worthy publication called The Young Elizabethan. I much preferred the comics!

I loved The Young Elizabethan when I was 12/14, so a bit older than the age for comics, I won a couple of competitions and had a book review and a poem published. They paid me! I got 10/6 for one of them.

Many years later I was discussing it with a neighbour who had also read it as a child, and we discovered we had come first and second in one of the competitions. We had lived at opposite ends of the country in childhood.

Sunny Stories, more a magazine than a comic, then Look and Learn.

OMG I loved Petticoat - Janet Street-Porter used to write for it! Before that it was, I think, June and Schoolfriend (a merger!), and also Valentine and Marilyn - they were comics but with a lot of music.

I had School Friend and my friend had Girls Crystal, so we could swap. I seem to remember Look and Learn and I loved Beano and Dandy too.

When I was younger I had Beano and Dandy. When I grew older I got Girl and Schoolfriend. I used to do the competitions every week in Schoolfriend but I didn't win any thing. When I had any spare money I used to buy Girls Crystal.

School Friend.

My cousin and I always spent the entire summer holidays together at a holiday chalet in the 60s but one year it was rather wet which put paid to our usual practice of playing on the beach all day. Luckily we were gifted a pile of more than 50 old copies of Bunty and Judy which we carefully separated into 2 piles (Bunty in one and Judy in the other) and put them all into date order. With no TV and no technology (of course), we gradually worked our way through each pile and then swopped over . They lasted us the whole holiday and it was sheer bliss. My DGD was amazed when I told her that we spent our holiday reading and making our own amusement. Our parents never had to entertain us - just one trip to Yarmouth Pleasure Beach each year. Comics now are just so expensive and full of plastic tat - I rarely buy them for my grandchildren.