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.

Anyone remember the little booklet editions of certain comics like Bunty? . They were A5 size and had more in them

I think I remember these. Were they just one long complete story? I remember one with a story about twins called Sandy and Susie, and one called "And Baby Went too" about a girl who had to take her baby brother to boarding school. (like that would really happen!)

Yes, they were usually a complete story @Redvelvet73

Does anyone remember the magic well, where the water drunk from it made you unafraid and fearless? The girl in the story was staying with relatives for the holiday and I think they were into extreme sports and pursuits, so she drank the water before having to take part. I think she discovered somehow, towards the end, that it wasn't really magical at all!

Pure escapism.

There used to be Summer Specials of a lot of comics didn't there? Thicker than the regular weekly ones and usually with some kind of plastic tat holiday themed free gift on the cover. I remember my Mum used to buy me a bundle of them to keep me occupied in the summer holidays but I wpuld have read them all in a couple of days.

Yes! I loved the summer specials!

'Hopeless Hope' it was called! I think at the end it was revealed the water was a placebo.

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.

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Hopeless Hope' it was called! I think at the end it was revealed the water was a placebo.

That's it! I'd long forgotten the name.

Does anyone remember the 3 part series in Jackie that was about a village where there was a feud and someone had been burnt as a witch in the 1600 and her ancestors still lived there

Think one family was the Prentices

Yes the photo stories were hilarious 😂 I took them really seriously at the time and wished we had a Youth club in my town. It was the place to meet boys!
All the girls wore cool leather bomber jackets, A-line skirts and knee high socks. The 'thought bubbles' were rife with suspicions 😅

Yes! That's them. Absolutely loved them!

My favourite thing to do was to go to our local newsagent where they kept a basket of comics and magazines that hadn't sold. They would sell them for 5p. Such a lovely treat in a family where money was tight. I've just remembered Look In magazine which was more music orientated with posters but my mum made me take the posters down as my sister complained Showaddywaddy were staring at her as she undressed

@IamMummyhearmeROAR that’s hilarious about Showaddywaddy. I had forgotten about Look In but as soon as I read your post the tune came straight back to me “La la la la la Look Iiiiiin”

My younger sister had Twinkle. I had Bunty, then moved on to Jackie and Just 17. I also liked the Beano which my cousin got but he was a boy. 🙄

Jackie comic, Bunty comic and shaders and toners ...My youth!!

I used either the gold colour or a red colour. Also Acqua Manda and Acqua Citra in my bath!

I remember that necklace!

I wrote in to Just Seventeen’s agony aunt once and the problem was published. It was about how my sister was the favourite, I can’t remember the advice given but I can’t have taken much notice of it because nearly 40 years nothing has changed.

I loved the Cherry Toner - spent most of my late teens and early 20s as that colour!

Cathy & Claire were the morality police. They''d have letters from girls saying they wanted to dump their boyfriend because he didn't want to have sex with them scolding: "He sounds lovely. He respects you, you ungrateful hussy." They'd occasionally have letters from boys saying their girlfriends dumped them because they didn't want to have sex with them with the reply: "You sound lovely and respectful. She is an ungrateful hussy. You will eventually meet the right girl."

Jackie would also have features where David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson said they didn't like girls who wore too much make up. That was a lie at least with David Cassidy. Donny probably didn't like girls who wore too much make up and Michael just didn't like girls.

I was about 13 when I started to suspect these things were made up and switched to My Guy.

My friends and I were the weirdos at school - very into our music, and nothing mainstream at that. So we used to hang around school clutching copies of Sounds or the NME looking very distainful at girls reading Jackie etc. My friend, who was our leader, almost excommunicated me when she caught me reading a copy of Just 17 that someone had left on the bus! I bet she'd have read it if I'd not been there though. We weren't really that "alternative" at all! 😂

I passed it in a taxi the last time I was in London and it left me feeling very emotional. It was a nice surprise seeing it but It also struck me just how small it was considering DC Thomson’s place in the publishing world. Their premises in Dundee were huge.

I still reminisce about Aqua Manda. Also Midnight Perfume in the dark blue bottle.

My boyfriend sister was another one way back in the early 70’s.

Im wondering just how many of us here are from Dundee.

Oh my god, yes! Completely forgot about them until you wrote this! I'd always get them on holiday too. They were little comics with a single story in them I think?

I wrote to Cathy and Clare about my parents arguing all the time and I got a handwritten, kind reply.

I have that book - some of it is very funny.

I remember a feature in Jackie on the Bay City Rollers. Asking questions about their lives etc.
One question was what was their favourite drink. They all answered the same....milk!!!
Yeah right 🤣🤣🤣