To want Jackie magazine to come back - exactly as it was?

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If you don't remember Jackie this is meaningless. But it was THE heart of my 70s teen years.
Donny and Marie, David Cassidy, Marc and glam rock, Starsky and Hitch, disco, Cathy and Claire's problem page, quizzes, pop, very 70s drawings as illustrations for the fashion, beauty and story pages, posters ...

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Oh how I longed for the arrival of my Jackie magazine, it was delivered with the papers and for some reason always a day later than my friends’ copies. I remember a bright red heart-shaped giveaway badge that I coveted. My parents were old and a bit old-fashioned so having Jackie was a real concession on their part. I often felt as if I didn’t fit in at school (we didn’t have a tv for example) but this was an area where I could share things with my peers.

I’m not sure all the messages were healthy, or would be appropriate now. Jackie taught me that if you have fat legs you should wear dark tights, and I’ve kept that habit for 45+ years. I also learned that if you have big boobs, v-necks are best, actually I believe that one is true. @TheFlis my teenage self envies you enormously, I loved Jackie with a passion.

I don’t read any magazines now, too full of ads/sponsorship/celebrity gossip.

@mollscat I had that exact one! It was from before I was born but I loved it, my gran used to pick the old annuals up at jumble sales for me.

Ah yes. Teacher always knew when it was Jackie day, with all the girls with the mag secreted under their desks trying to read it in lessons 🤣🤣

Yep black tights and v necks are my go-tos

I once won £5 from a crossword in one of them Blue Jeans I think it was. They published my name & address! That wouldn't be allowed these days

Happy days! We used to read Jackie in Geography classes when we should have been sketching rock formations etc.

The waiting for the next issue was all part of the experience - something that 'generation instant' won't relate to. It was something to look forward to, even if our dull lives seemed to fall short of the unattainable glamour portrayed in the fantasy world of magazine life. Getting the next issue, whether it was delivered with the papers, or bought at the newsagent, was something of a ritual, a marker of the passage of time. It was a sensuous experience too - the smell of new ink and the slight stiffness of pristine pages that you don't get online. We'd greedily devour each issue while longing for the next.

If I ever wear horizontal stripes I doubt myself due to an article I read in Jackie in maybe 1980 that advised against those with larger busts from wearing horizontal stripes.

Apparently we should wear a colourful necklace to distract the eye from this problem area.

Why can I remember that, including seeing the accompanying picture in my mind’s eye, yet I can’t remember what I had for tea yesterday?

I used to love buying the Summer Special editions to take on our family holidays in Cornwall.

The articles on 'How To Tell If He Fancies You By The Shape Of His Thumb/Type Of Socks He Wears/Other Equally Random Method' 😆

I loved the 90s ones, Shout, Sugar, Bliss, My Guy, Just 17 and More. I bought them all! Agree about thinking More was so grown up - position of the week!

Mizz?

No, Minx. Was only around for 4 years, aimed at about late teens to early 20s.

I remember lots of stories about girls starting their first job, at the age of 16, and the inevitable office romance developing. A very different world!

I fear we would find it horribly sexist if it came back exactly the same.

There’s been a lot of recent reissues of the classic girls comics (Bunty, Jinty and the fantastic Misty among others). They’re being appreciated in a new light by a modern audience for very sophisticated storylines compared to the boys’ comics of the time. The Misty compendium published by Rebellion in particular seems to be a big hit with young audiences.

@BCCoach yes I have quite a few of the Rebellion published ones.
"Fran of the Floods" is brilliant - a story about global warning from the 80s (or 70s?).
The boys stories were basically war or football - us girls got loads of different genres. Good times !!

I didn't read Jackie; df worked in the magazine industry and he would bring home lots of free samples of magazines but idk why not Jackie. 🤷🏻‍♀️

BTW you can often pick up copies of their annuals on eBay or ordinary magazine back numbers. I got a few over the years for dd who likes the nostalgia. After a while though I had to admit I was getting them for me!

Jackie was definitely required reading when I was a teenager in the 1970s.

It was a great era and I'm glad I was young then rather than now. We had great fun and it was a much more innocent time.

Yes please! Loved the fashion tips - still never got the hacking jacket with leather elbow patches that I coveted

Also the Jackie annual every Christmas

YANBU. Definitely not. Jackie was brilliant. My reading went from Twinkle, to Sandy, Tammy and Bunty (oh, the cut-out dolls), and then to Jackie, Blue Jeans and My Guy. Jackie was far and away the best, and such good value - it was twice the size of the others!

Ahhh loved Jackie magazine ! I made the leap from Beano and Whizzer & Chips straight into teen angst and pull out posters.

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Are there any magazines for pre-teen/teens anymore?

I used to read Mizz, Just Seventeen and Smash Hits!

Ah, memories! I used to love "Jackie", "Fab 208" and "Loving". Classics of the 1960s and 70s!