Cathy and Claire - Jackie magazine

[Redvelvet73]

Inspired by another thread.

Does anyone remember this advice column? Did anyone ever write to them and actually get their letter published? Always wondered if the letters were genuine.

I had something called 'The Jackie Book of Destiny' - it wasn't one you self-assembled so it must be different from the one mentioned upthread, but it sounds like the same sort of thing. You asked it a question and had to point to symbols with your eyes closed, I think, which were then decoded to refer to a range of different answers. Most of the answers were quite vague - covering themselves.😆

Yes you're right!! I remember some of them were quite sad x

@Redvelvet73 I loved Bunty as well before I graduated to Jackie. I loved the cutout model and her wardrobe on the back page. I constructed a "fashion scrapbook" in which I glued the models into, then would spend ages deciding what they would wear 😍
Aaaah😀 innocent times 😀

Yes I remember Patches!
I used to buy Jackie and my best mate bought Patches, once we read them we used to swap. kept us entertained on Wednesday and Thursday (I think) lunchtimes. Tuesday lunch time was the new top 40!

Yes sounds very similar! I think actually there was some kind of wheel or circle involved in my little book - guess that’s where the “dial” bit of Dial Your Own Destiny came in! Oh, the simple pleasures of the 70s!

I got mine in 1986 (I remember because there was a specific burning question I asked it applicable to that year) - I bet they 'recycled' the same thing in a slightly different format knowing that their 70s readership would have moved on by then.

I'll bet many of the problems that young girls had then are very similar to those they worry about today - with added modern problems that make us shudder.

When I was a young teenager I wrote a letter to them that was probably about 12 pages long.
I poured my heart out about how I was getting bullied at school for "being different" (I didn't know at the time that I had ASD. No-one did. They just thought I was weird).
I told them how every day I would be surrounded by a huge group of girls who pushed me around and told me how worthless and stupid I was. How no-one would ever want me.
I told them how they deliberately burnt my hand in a science lesson, how they put chewing gum in my long hair (I had to have it cut to shoulder length) and how they told me to take all my mum's tablets and kill myself because no-one would miss me.
I told them how alone I felt and that I couldn't talk to my mun as she was still getting over my dad leaving and had her own problems.
I didn't get a reply but I often wondered if anyone ever read that letter.

I took their advice about 'telling a friendly teacher' if things were bad at home, although I didn't write to them they always trotted that out. When I was beaten badly by my step dad and I showed the 'friendly school nurse' my very black hand print bruises she laughed and asked what I'd done to deserve it 😱 I'm so grateful for safeguarding in schools now . Sorry you had a shit time too x

I bought the very first Just Seventeen. It had a plastic necklace on the front as a free gift .. a mouse on a piece of cheese

That's amazing! Imagine how much that would be worth now!

Does anyone remember Jackie's Little Black Book? It was for dating and I'm sure i kept mine.

I remember writing in to Jackie and asking them to send me a free Toblerone as they were giving them away at the time. I said don't let Steve get his grubby hands on it first . Steve might have been the editor. They sent me one and it was massive! I worshipped them for that!

I remember it (1975?) but never wrote to them

I used to get Twinkle and Girl bought for me by my nana - actually step grandad picked them up along with brother's Rupert and then Buster comics. Bought mostly to keep us quiet on our weekly visits to their house.

Girl was obsessed with Cliff Richard which I could never get the obsession about!

They weren't real people at all. The agony aunt in Jackie was my pals mum. She was just on the staff team . My mum and I appeared in a photo story in Blue Jeans as our neighbours worked on the magazine.

I got Patches too.

I think the older girls used to read Jackie. My best friend and I thought it was full of love stories. One story stands out about a girl who was cross because she got her recently manicured nails dirty after her love interest, Dave, asked her to help fix his bike...

I think we were just too young for Jackie and o don't know what happened to it, but when we were older it was Just 17.

There was also My Guy which was a bit 'racier' than Jackie.
Anyone remember the little booklet editions of certain comics like Bunty? . They were A5 size and had more in them. I only ever got them when I was going on holiday

I read all the girls comics, and would love a thread about those. Bunty, Mandy, Jinny, Judy and the annuals and summer special editions of them all.

I liked the period stories, or those about orphan ballerinas making it against the odds with some evil relatives thrown into the mix.

I loved Miss Angel and at the time thought she was inspirational. Faking her death ( she had a terminal illness) so she could help the poor orphans in her final days.

All gone now I think. Though you can get Misty compilations of the old stuff in book form.

The summer specials I called them, but I don't know if that's the proper name.

Jinty not Jinny

I was too young, but my sister got Jackie. I used to get June, which then became Tammy and June, and eventually just Tammy. (Anyone remember Bella at the Bar, the stories about a would be gymnast, that I think were in Tammy?) Our comics were on weekly order at the newsagent and my Dad used to walk up to get them on a Saturday morning. If he was feeling flush he sometimes got me a copy of Bunty too, and sweets! Best day of the week in the 70s!
I used to sneak a look at my sister's Jackie when she'd read it though, but I'd get in trouble if I got caught as it was too old for me and, presumably, might corrupt me or something. 🤣 Of course by today's standards it was all very gentle.

I remember Bella @MrsAvocet

I bought the reissue for my DC who I think thought it was slightly bonkers.

My Guy was racier than Jackie but Jackie was for older girls.

I only ever really bought them for either the photo stories or for George Michael or whoever else I fancied in the pop world who was featured there.

J17 was rubbish really but I devoured it and my nana bought it for me via the newsagents.

Does anyone recall Oh Boy? Similar to My Guy?

@Redvelvet73

loved Jackie

Anyone recall Mates (I read this sometimes) and Pink magazines?

www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/pink-magazine