BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 10:35 PM

Sherbert Dabs!!!! a packet of sherbet with a lolly to lick it out with.....
but fruit salads & black jacks were right up there too great for turning your tongue and lips black..... I remember chocolate tools..... and sweetie cigarettes...... and white mice.... and those chocolate circles with hundreds & thousands on the top.......... I'm getting hungry now

I remember reading the Jackie problem page, and before that it was Bunty & Twinkle.... Fab 208 started me listening to Radio Luxemborg were a little known DJ called Steve Wright was starting out ......

was it the Beano or the Dandy which had "billy Whizz" (who could run really fast) and the "Little Injun" (I think that was the title)?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Gervase
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:52 AM

I remember the excitement at our local shop when Whizzer and Chips was launched - the great draw being that you thought you got two comics for the price of one, as Chips was inside Whizzer.
Viz that did a wonderful parody of the classic text-heavy illustrated strips with 'Black Bag, the faithful Border Binliner' after the one about the border collie that appeared in - I think - the Eagle.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 07:01 AM

No, Black Bob was Dandy.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Fiolar
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 08:26 AM

I think there was a sale recently in which number one of either the Dandy or the Beano fetched something like £20,000.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 08:28 AM

Black Bob!! That was bloody boring!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: muppett
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 08:59 AM

Who remembers Kelly's eye, about a bloke who had a jewel round his neck and he could see danger through it, think it was in the Tiger or Lion.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: muppett
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 09:01 AM

What comic were the Jocks & Geordies in?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 09:10 AM

Black Bob WAS boring. But I always thought it was because I wasn't rural enough to get it? Also wasn't it in black and white...maybe? At least the dog was black and the sheep were white anyway, and every box seemed to have a picture of either dog or sheep or old shepherd bloke...all in black and white. I skipped it.

I remember in Twinkle they gave away a plastic glove puppet of Sue from Sooty and Sweep. It folded up to nothing, and going to school I would shove it up my cardigan sleeve and then at dinnertime I would fill it up with gristly stew and wrung out greens, and tip the whole lot down the toilet. Happy days.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 09:34 AM

Yep, it was black and white and dull! Black Bob was also the only collie I have ever seen that wasn't continually trying to shag anything that moved.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 10:41 AM

How about Jimmy and the magic patch who kept whizzing back and forward through history - he had a magic patch on the seat of his trousers.

Also I first encountered the John Buchan story Prester John on the back of the the Topper. All about a scary black minister who turned out to be a homicidal Zulu chief on the quiet - don't think that would have got past the race relations folks these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 10:46 AM

True! When I was in infants school, the teacher used to read to us every friday afternoon from a series of books about a character called "Little Black Sambo" He lived in the jungle and was often chased up a tree by tigers. Anybody else remember that one?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: muppett
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 10:54 AM

Yep I do

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 11:19 AM

No comics, but I sure liked my John Bull printing set. My cousin had the more delux version and I was very envious. I remember separating all the little letters with a razor blade. I don't think they allow small children to use razor blades while they play now....pity.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 03:46 AM

The "print" comics like Wizard, Hotspur & Rover in the 1950s all had stories about living under occupation and heroic resistance. One was set in WW2 and had "Men in Grey" as a resistance group who wore long coats, trilby hats and masks and were know by numbers. There were two others set in the present or future with Asian oppressors (thinly disguised Japanese called Kushantis or Klovanians)running the UK with a rod of iron and brave locals fighting back. Then there were the working class sportsment Alf Tupper, the scrap merchant goalie and Wilson the 100 (?)year old athlete.
Like other 'Catters of a certain age I moved from Radio Fun to Dandy & Beano then to Rover, Wizard and Hotspur, then the Eagle. Now it's Saga Magazine!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 04:58 AM

Anybody remember Film Fun. There were some good stories -particularly enjoyed one called The Blackfriars Phantom.

In the very early 70's I came across it republished in compendium of of ghost stories for boys under the title The Phantom of Cursitor Fields.

As I was teaching in a sec mod school for boys at the time, and the school had sod all books that were actually usable. I read it to couple of my classes.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 08:17 AM

My step-Auntie used to get Film Fun when I was about 4, but it was a bit above me! I have vague memories of what was in it, but nothing concrete enough to put into words.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: GUEST,noody
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 08:20 AM

Oor Wullie and the Broons! Now we are talking.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Fiolar
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 08:41 AM

Film Fun as I recall used to have Laurel and Hardy on the front and other film comedians such as Abbott and Costello in other parts.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 09:02 AM

Having read all the usual comics as a kid I too thought I would try
the Saga magazine. Bitter dissapointment.I thought it stood for Sex And Games for the Aged. Ah well back to my latest issue of Amatuer Scientist (this week PTFE - fact or friction).

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 09:30 AM

Another fact has surfaced through the mists of time: the Men In Grey were known as Jacques One, Jacques Two etc. There was also an Australian Aborigine spin bowler in a cricket series. As the trad jazz revival started, one comic had the rise of a young orphanage trumpet player called "Louis Armitage"!!! Another had a drummer based on Jack "Kid" Laine with a story each week how he acquired each bit of his kit. I don't remember him ever getting a washboard...

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Daithi
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 08:05 AM

Anybody remember - or help out with these....

The Steel Claw - a hero who had an artificial hand. When he put his finger into a power source, he became temporarily invisible.

A "native! who wielded a cricket bat and whose catch phrase was "Clicky-ba crush many skulls!"

An invasion by a South American empire of Inca, who had a large weapon which directed the sun's rays and could melt enemy aeroplanes, tanks etc.
happy days...
Like others, i too then got hooked on DC comics, and still have about 250 in a suitcase in the loft. Most from 1962-1970.
D

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: C-flat
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 10:53 AM

"Clicky-ba crush many skulls!"

That's Chung! from the "Wolf of Kabul"!

I'm still trying to remember who the steel claw was..........

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: C-flat
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 10:55 AM

Found him here.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: C-flat
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 11:22 AM

A little exploration on google turned up the name of a long-forgotten strip.....
"Legges Eleven"
A football team made up of an odd assortment of circus-type characters including a French acrobat (Pierre somebody?) and the obligitary overweight goalkeeper. I can't remember the other nine but I'm sure someone here will!

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Daithi
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 11:23 AM

Brilliant C-flat..many thanks! Chung..of course!

That site also reminded me about Mytek the Mighty!

Actually I'd forgotten all about Valiant (which is where I read him in those early sixties) and thought he might have been in The New Hotspur or the Victor, which were my other reading of choice at that age! Thanks again.
Now, any takers for those pesky Inca with their sunrays??

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:53 AM

There was a great thread here a while back about Dudley Watkins the genius artist for D.C. Thomson. He drew just about everything including the Broons, Oor Wullie, Lord Snooty, Ginger (from the Beezer), Desperate Dan and many, many others.
Remember The Iron Fish, about the boy who had a mini-submarine that looked like a swordfish? (The Beano, I believe)
Or General Jumbo? The kid with the army of miniaturized robots which he controlled from an electronic wrist band. (Beano, too.)
Or Crackaway Jack - a '50's rip-off of Davy Crockett in the Dandy?
Or Big Boko - the wizard who alwayas got his spells mixed up? (The Topper?)
Oh God! You've got me started!!

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 10:02 PM

baby Crockett on the back of the beezer - there was a parody of the davy crockett song - can't remember it.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From:
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 06:54 AM

Hi from a fifty something lady in Australia. Does anyone remember the "Princess" and "Schoolfriend" annuals of the 1950's. In particular I have this recall of a comic strip series, I think called " The Day Family" and they had a daughter called Susan Day. Would love any info. Life was so simple then....or so it seemed.

Regards,
Barbara Denny,
NSW Australia

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: Cllr
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 07:07 AM

Look In (anyone remember the kungfu medallion?)
Battle with Leautenant Easy (based on Clint Eastwood)
2000 AD with Judge Dredd (also based on Clint Eastwood)
then graphic novels Watchmen, and Maus then my all time favourite Neil Gaimen's Sand Man series
Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: Nostalgia? (UK comics)
From: GUEST,Penguin Egg
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 06:26 AM

In the 60s, my sister use to work for IPC-or Odhams Press, as it was then called, and she use to bring home a copy of all their comics, which included The Eagle, which is famous, and a series of comics based loosly on The Dandy, etc, called Wham, Smash, and Pow. I have never met anyone who remembers these comics, but I use to love them. She also brought home Terrific, but what was in it, I cannot for the life of me remember. Being a spoilt little brat, my mother also use to have delivered TV21, the bestest comic ever, based around the Gerry Anderson tv programmes, such as Supercar, Thunderbirds, etc. The artwork in that was amazing. I also remember TV Tornado, based on contemporary tv programmes such as the Saint.

Ironically, I now work in the same building that use to print those IPC magazines, but now belongs to a govt. dept, for whom I work. IPC are just across the road.