.... 23 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Reading the 'Tuffees' thread and hearing of how people spent their pocket money made me realise how much of mine went on comics. I was allowed two comics a week on the family newspaper order but spent a lot of my spare cash on American DC and Marvel comics, Batman, Superman, X-Men et al. I began, like many I suspect, with the Beano and Dandy with the Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace and it went from there. What were your favourites? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Marvel....Spiderman. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Liked Spidey a lot but my real Marvel faves were Thor and Daredevil! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Beano for me, Dennis was my hero................................still is!! ( just cleaning my Dennis the Menace Fan Club badge as we speak!! ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 The Hotspur. The Eagle with Dan Dare, Digby and the Mekon. Not forgetting the Beano and the Dandy. Please Scotty...beam me back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Someone you didn't mess with......Judge Dredd. 2000 AD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Without a doubt. DC Comics, any Batman Superman, Superboy and the like. If I had the DC comics that I read in the 60s, they would now be worth a fortune. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Whizzer and Chips, Dandy and Beano (A gang of us joined the Dennis the Menace Fan Club/ Gnashers Fang Club and The Desparate Dans Pieaters Club as a joke at the age of around 19 at Raleigh !) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 As they years passed by, I graduated from the Beano and Dandy to the likes of the Beezer and Topper. Later on the comics like The Hotspur and The Victor were devoured every week. Who can forget Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track? Trained on fish and chips, slept under flyovers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 1. Looks like Alf Tupper was drawn by the same artist as another character whose name I'm sure someone will remember. He was a soldier in WWII and used to take on a whole platoon of Germans single handed. Name please? 2. Anyone remember the name of the DC comics superhero that was the same as Superman but his nemesis was Lead instead of Kraptonite? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Beefsteak: I had a Pie Eaters club badge in my late twenties. Don't recall what happened to it though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 1. Looks like Alf Tupper was drawn by the same artist as another character whose name I'm sure someone will remember. He was a soldier in WWII and used to take on a whole platoon of Germans single handed. Name please? Captain Hurricane? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 That's him! Thanks Stu. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 2. Anyone remember the name of the DC comics superhero that was the same as Superman but his nemesis was Lead instead of Kraptonite? Don't know that one. Doesn't lead protect Superman from Kryptonite's deadly radiation? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 One of my favourite DC comics was "Metal Men". Can't remember much about them now except that Lead always got melted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 As a kid I was always fascinated by Green Lantern (Hal Jordan). And by this DC character who seemed to be curiously based on Robin Hood! The Green Arrow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 After the 'Beano ,Dandy,and Topper', started to buy the 'Classic' comics,so well illustrated. Once sent away for the 'Foot locker' of toy soldiers,from the add on the back page,what a 'rip off'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 I remember this one causing something of a tumult in the line-up to get into Church Drive Junior School one morning in the mid-sixties. Especially as an early edition had a free gift of a Thunderbirds hat! 45 years ago: The first issue of TV21 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Steve Zodiac DEAD?????....SAY IT ISNT SO....!!!!! ages ago i d/l'd the 'death of Spiderman' comic....haven't had the courage to read it yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Professor Matic and Venus were in mourning but apparently reports of Steve's death were grossly exaggerated. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Can anyone remember any sci/fi, fantasy ' comics ' that were printed in the Seventies? I think they were in a comic strip format. Sorry, I can't remember any titles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Roy of the rovers comic, must be the oldest footballer in the world, never gets old Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Used to read of Roy Race's exploits for Melchester in The Tiger going back a bit. He's be worth about £50m nowadays! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Can anyone remember any sci/fi, fantasy ' comics ' that were printed in the Seventies? I think they were in a comic strip format. Sorry, I can't remember any titles. Y'mean these ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Ha Ha, my parents would have gone barmy if I took them home Kev.....I was only a young teenager!!! I think some were called Astounding Tales? Or something like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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