Comics UK

I don't have my copy to hand, and I don't know when I'll be in my shed... That conjures up so many images! The rambling garden. The huge piles of moldering and well thumbed comics. The good lady in the house. The weary bloke escaping to his nostalgic fortress on a Sunday afternoon, with a cup of so...

What comic was it? I'm dying to know.

Monster Fun issue 6. I was pretty sure that my first ever comic was issue 6 or 4, or (long shot) possibly 2. I now have issues 1-11, and based on which jokes I remember I suspect it was issue 6.

This capacity would be of considerably more use if your brain could differenciate between what it remembers and what it misremembers. Its really is amazing how often over the years I've had to realign my comic memories in the face of discovered facts. How true! I remember reading in New Scientist (...

Yesterday I got a comic through the post from eBay. At first I was really disappointed, because I was almost certain I already had it - I must have wasted my money. I should have checked, because obviously I had been reading this issue within the last month - I could remember all the jokes and the s...

I can't believe that I can answer this before anyone else! The middle strip looks like the work of Bill Ritchie. Can I have my ?1 postal order now?

Good question. Not funny as such - though I'm sure that some pages must have raised a smile. I just loved the idea of exploring amazing worlds in a light hearted way. I guess that's why I was never drawn to the straight humour or action stories, but LOVED the quirky and clever and exotic. I loved Ch...

I just got hold of some nice flick books and it reminded me of the flick strips on the corners of early Krazy comics. Those things must have been tricky to make, because they stopped on later issues, but it struck me that they should have asked readers to contribute them. I think they were a real se...

"Bayby Face Finlayson - the cuttest bandit in the west." I assumed this was because he was a cut-throat, or he cut through fun, or something. I guess that "cute" was not a word I head much at home. :) Or the Jocks and the Gordies , like they were all called Gordon or something. I had no idea what a ...

I seem to recall I bought the most publications in one big 'splurge' on a Saturday morn, with a very welcome 'BEANO' chucked in on a Wednesday Hey, I remember that! Totally agree. It is odd how modern kids can't cope with weekly comics and prefer fortnightly or monthly but back in the day the time ...

Captain Storm wrote:why Hotspur never had a Summer Special?

What are you talking about? The Battle of Otterburn was in August and the battle of Shrewsbury was in July. In fact most of his major battles were in the summer (often before breakfast according to Prince Henry) and..

Waitaminute. Wrong Hotspur. Sorry.

Where are the trademark eyebrows? Or is that Digby?

Thanks for starting a thread on this! I don't have anything useful to add, but this is something I really loved about British comics back in the 60s and 70s. The comics were not just comics but felt like whole worlds, with stories and features and spinoffs to suit every taste. Buying a "space specia...

An excellent find! Thanks! It seems that most Marvel UK web sites are almost never updated (mentioning no names, you know who you are :) ) so this is very welcome. For older readers, comics from the Big Two are a bit more accessible than in the US, thanks to the fact that both Panini?s Marvel and Ti...

I wonder if they come from selected reprint pages of the badtime bedtime books, with only 7 or 8 frames per 'story' they might be 1 page out of the 8 that were in Monster Fun's pull outs :?: If so then they must be from the seven stories that I still don't have on the site . Notice how I sneakily m...

I don't know if it's quite the same thing, but it's a bit like what Marvel did in the 1960s. Characters crossed over into other books and had a big consistent back-story, so if you bought one you had to by them all. It was revolutionary. And in the early days you'd even see them reading comics based...