What was your favourite comic as a child?

GrandmasueUK, I found the Jack and Jill annual on ebay, which I showed in the opening thread. I could only get hold of the 1970s one, which was after my time, but it had the Walter Hottle Bottle story, so I purchased it to relive my childhood 😊❤️

Was anyone else made to have The Children’s Newspaper instead of a comic? Very worthy, and I did win a Blackbird fountain pen for handwriting just in time to transfer to grammar school, but absolutely not fun. Eventually allowed School Friend instead which I used to collect from the newsagent and read while I walked to school. I loved Tuesday mornings.

Bunty, Judy, Dandy, Beano - and my elder sister’s SchoolFriend.
Anything I could get my hands on, really.

Dh’s was the Eagle.

I think my mum disapproved of comics, really.

I don't know if it was because of the cost, or the content, but I felt really lucky if I was allowed to have one every now and then.

Bunty! Used to draw background scenes for the paper dolls to live in.

Yes we were made to read the Children’s Newspaper . Also remember the Young Elizabethan.
Also had Schoolfriend and the Rupert Bear annual at Christmas. Btw was RB also a weekly or serialised somewhere? Only remember the annual.

Rupert started in The Daily Express in 1920 and still going strong.

Germanshepherdsmum

That’s so sad Grandma70s. Did your parents not approve of them? They were such innocent fun.

My parents were very keen for us to read, and we had a lot of proper books. They thought comics a waste of time and money. It didn’t seem to occur to them that we could do both! I did let my children have comics. The brainiest of them was a Beano addict.

Oh yes, the Young Elizabethan. I had some poems and book reviews published in that when I was around 13. They PAID me. Oh, the joy!

I carried on with comics, then read particular magazines until I was well into my 30s.
It was still a treat

I gave several boxes of our girls’ annuals, summer specials and some comics to our local Oxfam book shop recently. Try as I might, I couldn’t win any of our five grandsons over to Bunty, Mandy, etc. DS’s Beano and Dandy annuals went down a storm, though.

My favourite by far was Bunty. And I used to enjoy my Broons/Oor Wullie annuals at Christmas.

Diana was a favourite then later Jackie

Mandy was my favourite - think one of the regular stories was called Valda? There was also a story about a palomino horse, but can't remember the name. Does anyone else remember the Look-In magazine? Then I went onto Jackie - loved the Cathy and Claire "agony aunt" page .

I can remember the Cathy and Claire page.

Thay was one of my favourite bits!

My best friend and I spent many happy hours sat on her bedroom floor with Cathy and Clare x

I loved Girl comic, and used to have the annual every Christmas. I also liked School Friend, and wished I had friends like the ones in it.

I remember my sister writing in to Cathy and Clare with a problem concerning her boyfriend. Apparently he had "desert disease", otherwise known as "wandering palms" They got married eventually so the complaint must have been overlooked!

Bunty. I loved the Four Mary's.

I do remember Walter Hottle Bottle though! Hot water bottles referred to as such for long after we were far too old!!

Does anyone remember Misty. It was all spooky stories, I stopped reading it as it scared me but my mum and dad used to read it!

The Girl. Lots of information on careers etc. stories etc. Had it from first issue together The School Friend.

Loved Beano and Dandy, then moved on to Girl's Crystal and Schoolfriend. Then got hooked on Bunty!

Ooh, just remembered The Silent Three in Schoolfriend! All in their cloaks.......

My dad brought me Bunty and Judy and School Friend. My brother got Beano, Fancy and Hotspur. I loved Thursday evenings.

Oops...... Not Fancy, should be Dandy. Predictive text.

My brother was bought Cor!! comic. I used to read that after he had finished with it, as well as my own comics. I wasn't interested in his Look and Learn, though.