Comic books

Sci-fi comic set in the dark and dismal future (2000AD) where crims are hounded down by the legendary Judge Dredd.Eye-popping art and black humour made this a must-read comic for teenagers and adults alike. ...

Acorn Green was a children's comic book series in the mid-1980s based around a community of woodland creatures, all of whom had different jobs to play in the wood, for instance police officer, nurse, firefighter and postman. Acorn Green first ...

Action came out in early 1976 and ran until around October, when it was withdrawn. It reappeared in early December and ran for a year or so, then merged with "Battle" to become "Battle Action". There were many stories including ...

Archie Comics showcased the wacky adventures of the kids from Riverdale: Archie, Jughead, Betty, and Veronica. There was Mr. Weatherbee, the principal, and a whole host of secondary characters. These comics were great because they were relatively inexpensive and rather ...

Axa was a daily cartoon strip with 4 of 5 frames each day, shown (usually) on page 7 of The Sun. She was a warrior type who wore only the skimpiest clothes. Can't remember the story lines or who she ...

How could one forget the ever looming, ever waiting and watching shadow presiding over Gotham? Batman is the hero that saves the night. He is a man in a Batsuit that fights for justice, honor and redemption. ...

I remember the Beezer being the same size/format as a tabloid newspaper and I always felt quite the "grown up" reading it!The main characters in Beezer were "Ginger" (gimmick - he had ginger hair!), "Pop, Dick and Harry" (a dad ...

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I can't remember a lot about this comic, only that it would put you in a situation and you had to work out what you would do to get out of it. Great for us imaginative kids!Boys' World comic ran ...

Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Wars started life as a comic book about the aforementioned individual and his crew who fought toads in an intergalactic space war. In 1989 it became a TV show and in 1991 Hasbro released a ...

Buster actually started out in the 1960s but was a kids classic right through to the 90s featuring the title character Buster Capp who was allegedly Andy Capp's son.Some of the most well-remembered comic strips from Buster include Dinah Mite, ...

Can anyone remember Cathy Carter, a 12/13 year old girl who found a cat suit in the attic of her dad's house and when she tried it on she became Cat Girl, helping her detective dad to solve crimes. There ...

Sat there, in my bedroom, on a night, reading all the tales of heroism in Commando, back in the mid-70's! Happy memories... or so you think.In my case, I got hold of a bundle of issues from the 70's, not ...

My dad gave me a stack of these comics in the late 70's. Cor !! was actually taken over and some of the characters incorporated into Buster in 1974. The main characters I remember were "Gus the gorilla" (a ...

Countdown started in the late-60s, but really gained popularity in the 70s. It featured comic strip renderings of popular children's shows, sci-fi, action dramas etc, such as UFO, Dr Who, The Persuaders. It originally had kids' interest science features, ie.model ...

Daredevil is a comic book super hero – the real life name of this fictional character is Matthew Michael "Matt" Murdock – he is obviously a fictional character as few real people would have so much alliteration in their name!Daredevil ...

Eagle was a popular weekly comic in the UK, running between 1950 and 1994. The main comic character was Dan Dare (pilot of the future) who would do battle against Mekon. I remember one crazy story where a man lost his ...

Eagle was a British children's comics periodical, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_(British_comics)) ...

This comic was launched during March 1989 alongside the existing Big Comic Fortnightly which was considered to be the best comic on the market until 1994. ...

If I could be friends with any nearly-40-year-old cartoon cat then it would definitely be Garfield. His interpretation of the world and his attitudes towards eating and exercise mirror my own very closely. He first appeared on June 19th, 1978 in ...

Does anyone remember the Garth comic strip in The Daily Mirror. I think it actually began back in the 50s but it was popular during the 70s & 80s. I'm not sure when The Daily Mirror stopped running the comic ...

Herbie Popnecker aka 'The Fat Fury' was a lollipop-powered ... erm... superhero, first featured in Forbidden Worlds comic. Well, maybe not superhero, more the antithesis of - fat, young and short - but he always came out on top ...

Jackpot was a comic that was derived from Cor! (I believe) with great characters such as "The Incredible Sulk", "Full 'o' Beans", "Teeny Sweeney" and so forth. It didn't last for long but I do remember getting the first issue ...

I have many fond memories of my weekly trip to the local sweetshop every Saturday with my brother to collect our comics. He would have Beano while I would have Whizzer & Chips (2 comics for the price of one!). ...

This was a 32 part series which occupied the back page of (an otherwise pretty dull) Finding Out magazine in the mid 60s between issues from volumes 15 through to18.The paintings of the different beasts were painted by the late, ...

Little Lulu was created by Marjorie Henderson Buell as a single panel cartoon for the Saturday Evening Post in 1935. Little Lulu also appeared in several comic books over the years. Lulu' s life is filled with crazy adventures because ...

M.A.S.K was a classic kids' comic following the adventures of the M.A.S.K. team as they fought the evil VENOM and their plots to rule the world. It was spoiled after 80 odd issues when they merged it with the Eagle ...

Monster Fun was a short-lived comic from the mid-70s that focused primarily on ghosts and ghoulies. The most well-known characters in Monster Fun were Franke Stein, Gums the shark & Creature Teacher. To little girls it was the stuff of ...

The My Little Ponies had adventures every week in this children's comic. All the ponies that were featured were available for you to buy as toys in the shops. There would be puzzles for readers to do plus the opportunity ...

"Nutty" was a reguler weekly comic that ran in the UK from 1980 to 1985 - there were 292 issues until it merged with The Dandy. The cartoon character Bananaman first appeared in it before going into his TV series. ...

Oor Wullie is a comic strip, set in Scotland, in the D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a boy named William ('Wullie' - Oor Wullie is Our Willie in Scots) whose trademarks are spiky ...

I remember my Mam buying Pepper Street Comic for me from the newsagents next to our local Presto store, which would have been around 1985! The main thing I remember about it was that each back cover had a different ...

I had Robin comic weekly throughout the 60's - it was for very young children and my mum used to read it to me. There was always a story in the form of a rebus, where mum would read the ...

Comic that was, except for one picture story, mostly printed word stories, but that also had factual notes and diagrams. Stories about war heroes, IE Matt Braddock VC, Pilot, told by his Navigator (George Bourne?). Wonder athlete stories, like William ...

Although Roy and Melchester Rovers had been going since the 50's or 60's, I started reading in the 80's and looked forward to other stories such as Billy's Boots, Goalkeeper and Hot shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse. Major story lines ...

This was a football comic out every Thursday sort of rival to shootI can't remember any of the characters but i remember letter of the week won a fiver (a huge sum to an 8 year old - i ...

Scream was a fantastic scary comic that ran during the summer of 1984 for only 15 issues before being mysteriously withdrawn after complaints from worried Mums. Definitiely 'Not for the Nervous'! ...

Shoot was a weekly magazine covering all aspects of "division 1" clubs. It had pull out posters, interviews and a free cardboard league board which you altered week by week depending on results. ...

This was along the lines of Beano and Dandy and I took it for a while in the 60s. It had a title character on page 1 that would be instantly banned today - a caricature of what I think ...

Stan Lee's "Spider-Man" is perhaps one of the most famous (not to mention popular) superheroes from the entire Marvel universe. What makes Spider-Man so endearing is that he's a simple guy with the same problems as everyone else. ...

Released around 1981, a weekly boys comic called Spike. I relished the stories, The Man in Black, The Ghost in the Cockpit, Iron Barr, The Bleak Street Bunch...When I finished reading it I was so sad to have to wait ...

"Space Fiction Adventure in Pictures" published in black & white format by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd who also produce the "Commando" series of comic books. Each issue was intended to be a 'one-off' episode, although a number of characters ...

Starlord aunched as a companion paper to 2000AD and featuring such classics as Strontium Dog, Ro Busters, Time Quake, Mind Wars and Planet of the Damned. Starlord made up an awe-inspiring and, at times, wince inducing part of my childhood. ...

From "Action Comics" steps forth the son of Crypton and one of DC Comics' more popular superheroes. "Superman" comics show the amazing adventures of Clark Kent/Superman and his fight for justice. Within recent years, we have seen a major transformation ...

This was a small childrens' weekly comic book that was published between 1963 & 1973, which included Teddy Bear himself and other characters such as Paddy Paws the Puppy. Teddy Bear and his family live in ...

The 80s and 90s went mad for collectors' magazines for kids. Every week there was a new one out, normally based on a popular TV programme out at that time. The Animals Of Farthing Wood was a TV series about ...

Ahh the Beano, publishes by DC Thom(p?)son, those of you who read Viz will know who they are because they regurarly used to sue Viz for "borrowing" the characters. The most memorable character is Dennis the Menace but don't ...

The Broons is a comic strip within The Sunday Post newspaper, which is printed by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. It features the Broon (Brown in Standard English) family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street, ...

OK so The Dandy has been around since the 1930s but I'm including it on the site because it was still a big seller when I was growing up in the 80s.The central character was Desperate Dan (I actually joined ...

The comic called "The Tiger - The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly" was first published in Septmber 1954, and featured predominantly sporting strips.The Roy of the Rovers comic strip first appreared here in the first issue and proved so ...