The Beano 80 Years (2 Viewers)

[bringbackrattles]

Just read that the Beano comic is celebrating it's birthday tomorrow, it'll be eighty years old. As a kid my favourite comics were the Valiant and the Eagle. But football magazines were my number one read, The Soccer Star was out weekly and had it delivered, collected hundreds of them. I'd cut out pictures from them and stick them in scrapbooks.
What comics/magazines did you read as a kid ? And did anybody have autograph books, which was popular back then ?

 

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[eastwoodsdustman]

I used to have Beanovand Shoot. My nan got me viz annual subscription for a few years recently too

 

[dutchman]

I was more of a Dandy kid than Beano but they were virtually the same comic from the same publisher (DC Thompson of Dundee).

Remember at the start of the soccer season virtually every comic gave away a cardboad league table ladder with team tokens you were supposed to move up and down as the season progressed.

 

[Covstu]

I was more of a Dandy kid than Beano but they were virtually the same comic from the same publisher (DC Thompson of Dundee).

Remember at the start of the soccer season virtually every comic gave away a cardboad league table ladder with team tokens you were supposed to move up and down as the season progressed.

I remember doing that cardboard league, after 5 weeks the little tabs were knackered!

 

[Covstu]

I read both Dandy and Beano but always preferred Beano. Footballwise it had to be Shoot although Match was good occasionally

 

[RegTheDonk]

Just read that the Beano comic is celebrating it's birthday tomorrow, it'll be eighty years old. As a kid my favourite comics were the Valiant and the Eagle. But football magazines were my number one read, The Soccer Star was out weekly and had it delivered, collected hundreds of them. I'd cut out pictures from them and stick them in scrapbooks.
What comics/magazines did you read as a kid ? And did anybody have autograph books, which was popular back then ?

Don't recall much of the Eagle, was that the one with Dan Dare? Other than the City, wasn't too fussed about football but recall reading "You are the ref" most weeks, dont remember which magazine that was in? Main comics I collected and still have a few in the loft would be Marvel - Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Captain Britain.
My main childhood memory of the Beano was around 6 years old, reading it in bed after lights out...and my dad coming in and ripping it up. Cried myself to sleep.

 

[Gazolba]

I used to read The Topper, but not regularly. Occasionally read the Beano and Dandy.
Anyone remember the Jellymen?

 

[dutchman]

Don't recall much of the Eagle, was that the one with Dan Dare?

Yes and Digby and the Mekon!

The Eagle was more a 'newspaper for boys' than a comic, very eductional. During the years I read it it was merged with Swift and Boy's Own.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Think the Buster was a comic ? Does anybody remember Johnny Cougar ? Not sure what comic he was in though.

 

[dutchman]

Think the Buster was a comic ?

Yes, Buster was a junior version of Andy Cap and published by the same company as the Daily Mirror. In later years it was hard to tell which was which.