Not really Comics but as a kid i was really into Motorbikes from about 1976 , so each week i religiously brought Motorcycle News and Motorcycle Weekly , only stopped buying a couple of years ago , When i moved house around 20 years ago i had a pile that stood 6ft high , ended up dumping them as i didnt have the room to store them .
Two destinations for me on a Saturday AM ahead of a CAFC game from mid teens - Skinny Melinks in Loampit Vale Lewisham (comic shop) or some record shops in Soho.
re former was really into DC exclusively at the time and had every Green Arrow series comic going, plus Batman, Superman, Aquaman etc. To this day, I buy any Green Arrow memorabilia I do not have, though not a huge amount of stuff released over the years - a bit niche. Just caught my imagination, as did Batman for being a human crime fighter with some special skills and bravery beyond belief. Nice thread!!
If there’s anything there are you are after, I can get it for you at wholesale prices.
The guy who ran Skinny Melinks, Bruce, was a friend back then. His girlfriend was a drop dead beautiful redhead and you did have to wonder, nice as he was, what she was doing with him.
Is that Bruce that moved to open Avalon comics on Lavendar Hill, Clapham? If so, my other half’s brother Mark started as a Saturday boy in Lewisham, moved with Bruce to Avalon and basically ran the shop when Bruce moved away to near Southampton. I have mentioned Marks knowledge of the industry somewhere on here before. I have no interest in comics but am astounded at what he knows.
@paulbaconsarnie The guy who moved to Avalon ran the Popular Book Centre up by Ladywell. Was he also a Bruce? I knew him a bit at the PBC then a lot at Avalon, so I probably know your other half's brother. Ask him if he remembers Marlon and if he does, say 'Hello' from me.
Beano then 2000 AD and a few others I don't think have been mentioned:
Dragon's Claws Death's Head The Sleaze Brothers Oink
Bash St Kids v Judge Dredd. That's a cross-over I'd like to see. Would they drive him to despair so he'd take the long walk or would he get them all locked up in juvie?
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Ha ha - just me being mischievous!
I always used to get the Beano every week and then when I got a bit older I used to get those little booklets of war stories - "Commando" or something like that?
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Ha ha - just me being mischievous!
I always used to get the Beano every week and then when I got a bit older I used to get those little booklets of war stories - "Commando" or something like that?
I'd get those and the football ones which were good to save and take on holiday. The holiday specials were good for that too.
I was a big Beano fan and had quite a collection of annuals, which I sold when I moved to Thailand, one of which made three figures. I had a letter printed once, letter of the week no less, winning me a Dennis t-shirt, jumper and poster. I was 28 years old at the time and the t-shirt, despite being an XL, never fitted me!
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Ha ha - just me being mischievous!
I always used to get the Beano every week and then when I got a bit older I used to get those little booklets of war stories - "Commando" or something like that?
I'd get those and the football ones which were good to save and take on holiday. The holiday specials were good for that too.
Oh yeah, I used to get "Match" as well - never Shoot. But never really thought of that as a "comic" as such.
Beano Dandy occasionally Whizzer & Chips Roy of the Rovers Loads of those little Commando books Socialist Worker Shoot (was beside myself when the old man and his team got a picture and write up) Buster & Cor and loads more.
There was a stall in Green St market that used sell out of date copies of comics and magazines for a fraction of the price, which I used to save up pocket money for. He also always had a box of, er "specialist", magazines me and my mates would try to have sneaky shufty at when he wasn't looking.
I was a big Beano fan and had quite a collection of annuals, which I sold when I moved to Thailand, one of which made three figures. I had a letter printed once, letter of the week no less, winning me a Dennis t-shirt, jumper and poster. I was 28 years old at the time and the t-shirt, despite being an XL, never fitted me!
I can't ever remember having comics as a kid. The only time I looked at comics was in the junior school wet play times and then I think I was just looking at the pictures. In later life I used to get Viz very occasionally.
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I always used to get the Beano every week and then when I got a bit older I used to get those little booklets of war stories - "Commando" or something like that?
Dandy occasionally
Whizzer & Chips
Roy of the Rovers
Loads of those little Commando books
Socialist Worker
Shoot (was beside myself when the old man and his team got a picture and write up)
Buster & Cor and loads more.
There was a stall in Green St market that used sell out of date copies of comics and magazines for a fraction of the price, which I used to save up pocket money for. He also always had a box of, er "specialist", magazines me and my mates would try to have sneaky shufty at when he wasn't looking.
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In later life I used to get Viz very occasionally.