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Old 06-03-19, 12:36
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Default Which comics did you read as a child?

We've just been discussing this.

The first comic I used to have was Robin. My sister had Girl and my brother had Eagle.

I remember when Princess came out and having that for a while, and my sister had Honey. Also School Friend.

There must have been others we had, but those are the ones I remember most.
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Old 06-03-19, 13:34
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Treasure, Look In, Judy, Bunty, "June and School Friend" (two comics had merged), Princess Tina (I think that was also two which had merged), Pink. I occasionally read Tammy. My sister would get one comic and I would get a different one and then we would swop over. And my brother got the Beano, the Dandy, and a few others which I also read. I'm sure there are some more I can't think of the names of right now. There were some very good serials in some of them. "Patty's World" in Princess Tina was one of our favourites.

I thought Honey was a teen magazine rather than a comic, somewhat glossier than Jackie (which I also had). There were a few pop magazines I used to read too - "Music Star" and "It's Here and Now". Oh, and Popswap.
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Old 06-03-19, 13:38
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Yes, Honey was a magazine rather than a comic. It was a natural progression after comics for girls.
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Old 06-03-19, 14:25
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Bunty, Judy and either Look and Learn or Finding Out.

Mum said that once we could read, they had to avoid anything that said "educational" on it, as we would smell a rat!

Whichever we had, I remember reading for the Greek myths, where the young women always had white skins, and the young men always brown. Which puzzled me.
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Ooh, Sunny Stories then School Friend. My brother and I were not allowed Girl and Eagle because my father said they were capitalist rags! ( No, I never did know what that meant!)

When I hit teenage years my father subscribed to the Young Elizabethan for me. This was an extremely worthy intellectual liberal magazine for young nerds as far as I could tell and I continued to read my friends' cast off teenage mags, or even mum's hidden Woman's Own, which hinted at interesting secrets on the problem pages, lol and contained long articles about the importance of personal daintiness, hhaha!I

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Don't remember many - Bunty and Twinkle when I was little and Jackie when I was about 12.
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Beano, Dandy, Bunty and the Judy.
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Robin - I won a colouring competition to go to Billy Smart's Circus
Progressing to Bunty. Who can forget the Four Marys!
And then of course Jackie....
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Old 06-03-19, 18:14
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Interesting replies. Comics these days don't exist in the same format as in the 1950s and 1960s. Everything is themed these days. My little granddaughters would go for Peppa Pig and my grandson loves everything Pokemon, although he gets a monthly magazine called Aquila, which is very informative. It is something he can save and look at as he gets older and more involved in some of the subject areas. He loved the issue on Supervolcanoes.
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Beano and Dandy, then Bunty and Judy, then Jackie and a little later the Romeo.
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