Did you have a weekly comic as a child?

[FredaFrogspawn]

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.

This takes me back! Twinkle, Bunty then one called Pink I think, Jackie, then eventually Melody Maker and NME. My brother read Whizzer and Chips then the Victor.

Dennis the Menace! Every Wednesday it would arrive just before school, and when I got home my nana would make me coleslaw on toast (don't ask ) and I'd read it. Happy times!

We had Beano and Dandy and DB and I were expected to share them ...

FredaFrogspawn I started off with Twinkle then progressed to Whizzer and Chips as well. As a teenager it was Smash Hits.

Farthing Wood and My Little Pony when little little..then Girl Talk..Shout..Mizz...Sugar..J17

Just liked the free gifts!

Twinkle, Bunty, Blue Jeans, Jackie, Smash Hits, J17, Mizz.

Supplied a few reviews and things to more!
Fun times.

Blue Jeans was probably my fave.

Oh just remembered My Guy, but never was allowed it!!

Love, Lisa was in Bunty, it ran for ages with the "cast" growing up. For some reason I think it was a real family? Though I may have invented that !

Loved comics and magazines.

Twinkle
Mandy
Whizzes and Chips
Smash Hits
Mizz

This is making me so nostalgic and also stirring up child hood sibling rivalry. My brother was a member of the Beano club, I lustsed after that fuzzy Gnasher badge members got. Im also feeling like I should set my grandaughter up with a magazine subscription for Christmas. My guilty pleasure was the mini girls comic books, the ones I found at caravan parks and spent my holiday money on. I also loved the Peoples friend kids storys and the kids section in the Sunday papers.

Jackie and Just 17 - my Dad used to bring them home every Friday as an end of week treat. I would flick straight to the problem pages...probably why I like MN so much, it’s like the grown up version of the problem page 😆

In order, Jack and Jill
Bunty
Jackie
Petticoat
Look Now

I didn't get to buy one weekly but there were a couple of years where one of the papers had a Disney comic book free in it. I loved that. My Grandad used to save them up for me, I can't remember which newspaper it was, it was definitely a broadsheet as I remember all the dramatic flapping and refolding as they read it and the way that my Nan could make it look like a family of squirrels had been nesting in it every time she attempted to actually read it!

I liked shout as a young teen but again never got it weekly, too much money!

I'd like to buy them for my son but at about a fiver a pop it's not going to happen and I really don't want all the plastic tat!

Twinkle then Jinty and Lindy, then a significant few years off before Jackie, then Smash Hits and then melody maker. Once I was a student I couldn't afford magazines and never got back in the habit.

I've skimmed through to see if anyone was as square as me. Spotted one of you who got The Brownie. (I loved the dark blue, green or red covers, like the Brownie pocket books).

No one had Today's Guide, just me then? (May have had the annuals too. )

To be fair, I used to sneak a peek at the rather saucy (to 13 year old me) problem pages in DM's copies of "She" magazine.

Remember Look In? The covers were always hideous drawings if the 'stars' rather than photos. I remember a short lived women's magazine called Etc. The relaunched Nova was fabulous but didn't last.

I had the Dandy. Brother had the Beano. (18 months between us). Read them then swap. 🙂

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Was it story teller? Utterly brilliant, famous actors reading the stories.

Was the high light of my week, grover the ogre and scarlet braces!

Twinkle...when I was very little
Look In...when I was about 11
Pink, Oh Boy, My Guy...I was about 13
Just Seventeen and Smash hits...Mid teens.

I had Tammy, my sister's had Bunty and Playschool. My aunt Joan brought th for us every Saturday morning without fail and annual around Xmas time. My parents could not have afforded 3 comics every week. Aunt Bet bought us a block of ice cream from ice cream van every Sunday afternoon. Neither Aunty had kids of their own but how they enriched the lives of me and my sister's.

I used to read mine very quickly and want to swap with my sister but she was a slow reader and I was not allowed to read her comic before her. I used to sit next to her waiting.