Did you have a weekly comic as a child?

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I graduated to Whizzer and Chips from Twinkle The Comic for Little Girls. My sister had the Topper. We were unimpressed with Bunty, Judy and the like so then moved on to Jackie and Blue Jeans.

I have a Diana annual somewhere in the attic - 1968 - great memories.

Ooh yes, Cor, Sparky, Buster! Also we used to get TV21 and Lady Penelope although I think that was quite short-lived.

Still have my Diana annuals with the black shiny slipcovers. Never got the comic but loved the 60s annuals

I had Twinkle, then Bunty, and Tammy for a bit. Then a few years with nothing before I started getting the NME or Sounds most weeks in my teens. I got New Scientist in 6th form.
I remember my sister reading Jackie but I never got a teenage girl magazine myself.

Twinkle first - I loved Nurse Nancy.
Them I got Jinty and my sister got Tammy
Later on Jackie.

Loved the day the comics arrived and you'd go down to the shop for them and they'd have your name on them.

Look-in

It is 00:16 where I am - I knew it'd come to me around midnight! This might even be the edition with the free earring

And yes I loved Vogue, in the mid-80s Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatiana Patitz, Helena Christensen, Eva Herzegovina (sp?). Loved George Michael and Pet Shop Boys videos with supermodels

i had twinkle (and think i remember my younger sister having little star which was like a junior twinkle?) i would also read my brother’s beano and dandy, and sometimes got quiz kids puzzle magazine too.

Who used to get the annuals in your Christmas stocking? My db and i always gut 1 or 2 annuals each at Xmas which we'd read on Boxing day. I used to buy my ds annuals too when he was younger.

I seemed to have had Jinty for years and loved it - the girls in the stories were so ridiculously gorgeous, it would never be allowed now!

But like a PP, my mum sent me to a local beauty salon for a birthday treat in the late 70s and they had a pile of Vogues in the waiting room and I never looked back (I think this needs its own thread...).

Before the high street revolution in the early 90s, Vogue basically showed incredibly beautiful and expensive versions of the sort of clothes you were wearing anyway, and was much better for it. I had a constantly changing collage on my wall of cut-outs from its editorials.

I used to get animals of farthing wood when I was really little my grandparents bought it for me when we visited every Thursday. They were very into going to the newsagents and ordering things in haha.

When I was a bit older I used to buy myself mizz, J17, Bliss, smash hits.

I had Bunty, Princess Tina and then Jackie and had David Cassidy posters all over my bedroom walls. I loved my brother's Dandy, Beano, Beezer and later his Hotspur comics too.

I used to get Twinkle and my sister got Jackie. I then graduated to Smash Hits. I've always bought my kids comics but they're just not the same now.

I had Twinkle. Then Look In, I once won some roller skates in a competition in Look In. I graduated to Fab 208, Jackie and Love Affair! I used to love the free gifts. My dad always used to buy Dandy, Beano and Whizzer and Chips allegedly for me but he read them too. I always got a Broons annual every Christmas too.

My great aunt worked in a newsagents. She got me Twinkle, then Bunty, every issue. She sometimes got me other ones but I don't really remember them, they weren't regular - I think they were comics that would have been returned by the shop otherwise if she hadn't bought/liberated them. My mum and dad bought me the Beano every week, i preferred that to Bunty. I sometimes got the Dandy as well as a treat. Later they subscribed to Tree of Knowledge for me, a weekly (i think) publication which built up into an encyclopedia across 7 different lever arch size files. I still have them, they were useful for DS at school.

Look In, Fast Forward, Shout, Big and Smash Hits were my late primary to early teen reads, then I graduated to Jackie, Just Seventeen, More, Mizz and the like. My great aunt came in very handy here because I would go into her shop and leave with all the latest issues she had put aside for me under the counter. I read so many because she paid for them all. Or maybe she didn't. I never asked her...

Bunty
Mandy
Beano
Dandy

And then NME

I was so cool

Sunny Stories.

Beano, Dandy, Topper, Whizzer and Chips.

Also Misty and an I Love Pigs type comic which was short lived and my sisters got Tammy, Bunty, Judy, Patches(?) and My Guy (which had swearing in the photo stories).

Anyone remember ‘Treasure’? It was a general knowledge magazine. I stopped getting it and replaced it with Judy, Mandy and Bunty. As I got older Jackie. My younger sister had ‘Twinkl’.

I also had Sunny Stories I forgot that one

From the ages of 6 - 14-ish:

Beano
Mandy
Nikki
Girl
My Guy
Jackie

I had Bunty, then Girl, then Jackie. I think after that it was Just Seventeen, then the hellscape that is women's magazines.

I had Twinkle, then Mates (I dont think anyone's mentioned that one so far?). I wasnt allowed Jackie for some reason.

Twinkle, then the Dandy. Then I seemed to move onto my Gran’s copies of People’s Friend.

People’s Friend was the magazine equivalent to a rocking chair, a cat on your lap and a pair of well word comfy slippers. Remember the poetry by Patience Stong?