Pre-Eagle there were the adventure comics - Hotspur, Wizard and Rover, the ones C-flat linked us to (thanks!) - hardly any pictures, tiny print and great stories; and the funny comics, things like Knockout and Film Fun, which were pretty well all pictures, and Beano and Dandy which were mostly pictures but a few stories.

Then the Eagle came in with a quantum leap in picture story quality, and after that the print stories started to be replaced by strips, often of the same stories, I think. And Eagle put out a whole range of companion papers - Girl and Robin and Swift; and new comics like Lion appeared, copying some of the Eagle's ideas.

But now. when you look through the newsagents, the kids don't seem to have anything really, apart from Beano and Dandy in a watered down version, and stuff that really looks as if it's aimed at teenagers. They don't know what they are missing.