Comic books

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Scream was a fantastic scary comic that ran during the summer of 1984 for only 15 issues before being mysteriously withdrawn after complaints from worried Mums.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 ...