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Bunty, Judy and Jackie

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happymerryberries · 22/05/2005 13:41

The comics of our youth (or at least old farts like me!)

Anyone else remember the 4 Marys?

And almost all of them seemed to have a story about a working class 'gal' who was a brilliant runner coached by a strange, bitter coach who walked with a cane.

And Jackie talked about boys! Cathy and Claire!

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SenoraPostrophe · 22/05/2005 19:01

I used to get Oink, Davros. still have a few copies. the glossy ones (the first series) are quite valuable apparently.

marthamoo · 22/05/2005 19:06

I went straight from Beano to Just 17. How weird is that? I remember reading J17 (borrowed from a friend, wasn't allowed to buy it) at the kitchen table one evening and asking my Mum what oral sex was. She went mad and said "this is why you shouldn't be reading that - you're not Just 17, you're Just 13!"

I was forced to guess what it might mean and continued to labour under the misapprehension that oral sex was "talking dirty" until I went to University

WideWebWitch · 22/05/2005 19:09

I wasn't allowed Jackie or My Guy or Photo Love (remember them?) or, later when I was 16+, Cosmo. Hence a raging magazine addiction that carries on to this day. Haven't read the thread but will do now with nostaglia!

TinyGang · 22/05/2005 19:25

I used to have Twinkle. Saw an old Twinkle annual in a charity shop recently and went all dewy eyed with nostalgia over it (Nurse Nancy, The Three Pennies et al) and bought it for my dd (6yrs). She politely gave it the once over then re-affirmed her interest in 'Groovy Chick, thanks all the same mummy..'

Once I got older I graduated to Jackie and the delights of the free gloopy saccarine sweet lipgloss. Was it called 'Kissin' Potion'? - well I should've been so lucky!

mishmash · 22/05/2005 19:54

OMG - that is all I can say - Remember them all.

Don't dare mention how many years ago it was

bakedpotato · 22/05/2005 19:56

Misty was the one I wanted to get my hands on. My parents didn't mind Bunty etc but did disapprove of Misty's spooky element, stories about dead biker boyfriends calling from beyond the grave. There was another mag too, for boys and girls, with an slightly educational slant, and a Sapphire and Steel cartoon? What was it called?
Remember cover shot for first Just 17 was a girl in protective boxing-style headgear -- can that be right?
They used to send a photographer out to snap 'trendies' (remember when that was a valid word?) around the country... someone from school got snapped in Guildford. Man, did she lord it up after that. B*tch.

Posey · 22/05/2005 20:00

I used to get "Emma". No-one has ever heard of it. It was on a par with Bunty and Jinty. I used to take 10p to the shop on a Saturday morning, get comic for 8p and 2p of sweets.
Before that got Twinkle. Mum still has all our Twinkle annuals which are on the shelf in dd's bedroom at their house. Years from 1972 to 1977. Dd loves them.

Have always got a magazine. After Emma, got Jackie, then Just 17, Cosmo, Marie Clare, then progressed to bridal mags then pregnancy then parenting ones. Just been given a subscription to Prima, its okay but prefer Eve.

ionesmum · 22/05/2005 20:12

hmb - interested about your brother being given Look and Learn. I was about to ask the question as to why it is that all the boy's comics are still going but the girl's ones aren't. Girls get junior versions of Cosmo yet there is no boy's equivalent to FHM (yet). Dd1 (aged three) was given an Angelina Ballerina comic lately and it had advice on fashion and make-up! FFS! Her favourite mags are the Thomas the Tank Engine ones - and every child in it is a boy. It seems that girls are being pushed into growing up far earlier than boys, and are being given the message that how you look matters more than who you are. You'd have thought we'd have made some progress in twenty-odd years but if anything we've gone backwards.

cupcakes · 22/05/2005 20:22

Oh, the nostalgia - thanks Jools for the Mary's names, I would never have remembered. I had Bunty and Mandy and Judy. Do you remember 'The Comp' about posh girl Sam who came from a grammer school whose dad lost his job and she had to mix in with the girls at the local comprehensive.
My brother had Look In which I also read although there was always some weird Cannon and Ball storyline.
Then progressed to Smash Hits then Just Seventeen then Looks.
Love reading Fiona Gibson when she writes in Red because it makes me all nostalgic for J17 (it's a snip!). And I saw Anita Naik(?) writing in something proper the other month (she used to do the advice pages for ages).
God how I loved Just Seventeen.

JoolsToo · 22/05/2005 20:25

the black and white picture is my era [shock}

the four marys

Whizzz · 22/05/2005 20:27

I used to get Jackie & Patches too and then moved onto Smash Hits !

cupcakes · 22/05/2005 20:27

Just Seventeen on ebay

ionesmum · 22/05/2005 20:28

Does anyone remember the Slave to the Dolls story? It was about a girl who shrank every night and had to go and work for the dolls in her Victorian dolls' house. Then she'd be too tired for school the next day. Scared the living daylights out of me!

cupcakes · 22/05/2005 20:29

I read this J17 annual to death

Caligula · 22/05/2005 20:43

God, I've just remembered another story - Milady Maud and somebody else - a mix up about two Victorian girls, one of whom was a street urchin and the other who was an aristocrat, being swapped for some implausible reason (the aristocrat was on her way to her posh finishing school) and they both underwent improving character changes as a result of their mixed identities.

And another one - it's all coming back! - one where a fabulous athlete gets kidnapped by some kind of slave woman who keeps her in servitude and shaves her head so no-one recognises her.

Ah, innocent times....

LGJ · 22/05/2005 20:58

was forced to guess what it might mean and continued to labour under the misapprehension that oral sex was "talking dirty" until I went to University

MOO

I laughed so loudly... DH could hear me from two rooms away

WideWebWitch · 22/05/2005 21:31

cor cupcakes, can you remember the tv ad for nah nah nah nah nah, Look In! ?

Hausfrau · 23/05/2005 08:11

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saadia · 23/05/2005 08:24

Yes sobernow, we used to get Disco45 and another one called Chart Songwords....seems like a century ago.

Furball · 23/05/2005 08:38

Blimey, Patches, I'd forgotton all about that one. Used to have Jackie delivered and also read Blue Jeans, My Guy and Oh Boy!

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treacletart · 23/05/2005 08:52

I used to get Twinkle (anyone else remember walter hottle bottle?) and I think sometimes something called Bonnie - I remember a really great rainbow glitter star ring that came with it. Never bought teen mags but spent a lot of breaktimes reading my mates' Jackie - "Dear Cathy and Clare.... am I normal?"

treacletart · 23/05/2005 08:54

oh yeah and we sometimes got "la la la la-la Look-in!" But from memory it was a bit ITV and therefore not really allowed in our house

albert · 23/05/2005 09:33

Oh this is a brilliant thread! I used to get Twinkle, Walter Hottle Bottle was my favourite together with 3 Pennies. Then I progressed to Jinty, then Jackie which was just so cool. I remember a friends brother wrote a spoof to Cathy and Claire - do you think they ever had geniune letters. I do recall a letter teaching you how to French kiss and I was desperate to try it out but had to wait for ages and ages before I got the chance. Then I moved onto Honey, Cosmo (which I had to hide from my Mum in case she read it and banned it). My bro had la la la la look out for Look In - it was really boring! Oh the nostaligia, I feel so old!