| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" 08:43 - Jun 13 with 2779 views | numptydumpty |
As a young boy used to buy all of these. When I became a "man", still waiting tbf, purchased "Viz" and the "Today" newspaper. Don't buy magazines or newspapers anymore. Internet and round clock television changed all that. Sometimes less information was more for me.
Anyone still buy magazines or newspapers or know anyone that buys comics ???
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 08:56 - Jun 13 with 1901 views | GaryBannister86 |
Absolutely loved Roy of the Rovers. Always had the xenophobia in the summer when they would go on foreign tours and face despicable cheating foreigners with big moustaches. Then half the side got blown up by a terrorist bomb when abroad too, in some Dangerous Place - RIP Vic Guthrie.
Even Roy of the Rovers wouldn't be appropriate now! |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 09:31 - Jun 13 with 1820 views | loftboy |
It was the Beano, shoot and later Match weekly for me, always got that annuals at Christmas as well, my brother got the Cor!! One which I loved reading. |  |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 09:34 - Jun 13 with 1798 views | Lblock |
Was in the pub last night and we were reminiscing about 70's and 80's food and eventually led to cars and then the question was asked "whatever happened to Fiesta, Razzle and Readers Wives?"
Never read much but had good pictures |  |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:07 - Jun 13 with 1715 views | Myke |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 09:31 - Jun 13 by loftboy |
It was the Beano, shoot and later Match weekly for me, always got that annuals at Christmas as well, my brother got the Cor!! One which I loved reading. |
Loved Cor! And all mentioned by the OP. My mother was English and my father football mad so this left a strong English /football influence not shared by my peers at the time. Great memories of more innocent times |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:10 - Jun 13 with 1709 views | Guppy |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 09:31 - Jun 13 by loftboy |
It was the Beano, shoot and later Match weekly for me, always got that annuals at Christmas as well, my brother got the Cor!! One which I loved reading. |
You couldn`t make a monkey out of Gus | | | |
| (No subject) on 10:11 - Jun 13 with 1702 views | stevec |
Was it Shoot where, just before the season started, you’d get your league ladders?
That was up there with Xmas for me. [Post edited 13 Jun 10:16]
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| (No subject) on 10:24 - Jun 13 with 1675 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| (No subject) on 10:11 - Jun 13 by stevec |
Was it Shoot where, just before the season started, you’d get your league ladders?
That was up there with Xmas for me. [Post edited 13 Jun 10:16]
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Yes, the League Ladders were a thing of beauty. I used to love how they'd stagger it so you got the table and the first tabs one week, then the other ones over the next couple of weeks. Proper summer excitement.
As for comics, I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s so was raised on UK comics, rather than the 'cooler' US ones. There used to be a really good website where you could download all of them except for D.C. Thomson publications but I think the host got too many legal threats. [Post edited 13 Jun 10:25]
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:44 - Jun 13 with 1632 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 08:56 - Jun 13 by GaryBannister86 |
Absolutely loved Roy of the Rovers. Always had the xenophobia in the summer when they would go on foreign tours and face despicable cheating foreigners with big moustaches. Then half the side got blown up by a terrorist bomb when abroad too, in some Dangerous Place - RIP Vic Guthrie.
Even Roy of the Rovers wouldn't be appropriate now! |
Yes, the infamous Basran disaster. Ironically, they'd just been rescued by the SAS too, but on their way back collided with a suicide bomber on his way to blow up the guy who kidnapped them. Like a crossover with Battle.
Unfortunately ROTR had already jumped the shark the previous year with Melchester signing Martin Kemp and Steve Norman from Spandau Ballet, as well as persuading Bob Wilson and Emlyn Hughes to come out of retirement. All were released at the end of the season (despite winning the League Cup), fortunately meaning they all missed the Basran tour. | | | |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:50 - Jun 13 with 1608 views | GaryBannister86 |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:44 - Jun 13 by Wegerles_Stairs |
Yes, the infamous Basran disaster. Ironically, they'd just been rescued by the SAS too, but on their way back collided with a suicide bomber on his way to blow up the guy who kidnapped them. Like a crossover with Battle.
Unfortunately ROTR had already jumped the shark the previous year with Melchester signing Martin Kemp and Steve Norman from Spandau Ballet, as well as persuading Bob Wilson and Emlyn Hughes to come out of retirement. All were released at the end of the season (despite winning the League Cup), fortunately meaning they all missed the Basran tour. |
Oh yeah, that was awful when they started getting "real" celebrities. Bob Wilson was bad enough but then the Kemp brothers. I know why they did it, but compared to the rich characters like Guthrie and Gray and all the others - a real shame.
You can follow the guy on Twitter who did some of the work - Barrie Tomlison or something, fascinating. | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 12:51 - Jun 13 with 1481 views | izlingtonhoop |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:50 - Jun 13 by GaryBannister86 |
Oh yeah, that was awful when they started getting "real" celebrities. Bob Wilson was bad enough but then the Kemp brothers. I know why they did it, but compared to the rich characters like Guthrie and Gray and all the others - a real shame.
You can follow the guy on Twitter who did some of the work - Barrie Tomlison or something, fascinating. |
So true |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:14 - Jun 13 with 1441 views | qpr1976 |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 12:51 - Jun 13 by izlingtonhoop |
So true |
Before Roy of the Rovers went off to his own comic, he was in Tiger & Scorcher, which featured other sports/racing, like
Mike's Marvellous Minis
Billy’s Boots (Billy Dane)
Hot Shot Hamish
Skid Solo (motor racing)
Blake Edmonds (disfigured masked ex motor racing champion, with a deathwish !)
Johnny Cougar (wrestling)
Struggling to think of others…..? | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:16 - Jun 13 with 1437 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 10:50 - Jun 13 by GaryBannister86 |
Oh yeah, that was awful when they started getting "real" celebrities. Bob Wilson was bad enough but then the Kemp brothers. I know why they did it, but compared to the rich characters like Guthrie and Gray and all the others - a real shame.
You can follow the guy on Twitter who did some of the work - Barrie Tomlison or something, fascinating. |
And obviously brilliantly parodied later in Billy the Fish. | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:20 - Jun 13 with 1419 views | MrSheen |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:16 - Jun 13 by Wegerles_Stairs |
And obviously brilliantly parodied later in Billy the Fish. |
My favourite was Faceache in Buster. Amazing grotesque drawing. |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 14:15 - Jun 13 with 1340 views | R_from_afar |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:14 - Jun 13 by qpr1976 |
Before Roy of the Rovers went off to his own comic, he was in Tiger & Scorcher, which featured other sports/racing, like
Mike's Marvellous Minis
Billy’s Boots (Billy Dane)
Hot Shot Hamish
Skid Solo (motor racing)
Blake Edmonds (disfigured masked ex motor racing champion, with a deathwish !)
Johnny Cougar (wrestling)
Struggling to think of others…..? |
I loved Tiger & Scorcher.!
Pedant alert: It was *Martin's* marvellous mini 
There was also "Nipper," about an urchin who turned out to be an amazing footballer, and "Football Family Robinson," in which all the players as well as the coaching staff were members of the same family. The manager was a formidable matriarch called Ma; she was a bit like Ena Sharples, except she could organise a defence. There was also "Rod and line,' about a young lad who was trying to become a top class angler.
"Roy of the Rovers" featured a story - "Millionaire Villa" - in which a rich bloke bought a struggling football club, with a condition of the purchase being that the purchaser would actually play in the team. I used to worry that the story would give Flavio ideas  .
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| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 14:25 - Jun 13 with 1309 views | Sonic_Hoop |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:14 - Jun 13 by qpr1976 |
Before Roy of the Rovers went off to his own comic, he was in Tiger & Scorcher, which featured other sports/racing, like
Mike's Marvellous Minis
Billy’s Boots (Billy Dane)
Hot Shot Hamish
Skid Solo (motor racing)
Blake Edmonds (disfigured masked ex motor racing champion, with a deathwish !)
Johnny Cougar (wrestling)
Struggling to think of others…..? |
There was a prison football team in Scorcher, can't remember what they were called though. |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 14:29 - Jun 13 with 1293 views | izlingtonhoop |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 14:25 - Jun 13 by Sonic_Hoop |
There was a prison football team in Scorcher, can't remember what they were called though. |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 15:45 - Jun 13 with 1229 views | LazyFan |
Commando is still going strong.
Who doesn't like Nazies getting killed every week?
This is the way.
Source: https://www.commandocomics.com/ |  |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 16:14 - Jun 13 with 1194 views | soops |
Why did Billy’s nan seem to throw out his boots every other week? Dotty old bird.
The boy from Argentina was another very topical one in 1978/9.
Loved Shoot’s league ladders but always felt a bit sniffy over them having “QP Rangers” |  | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 16:47 - Jun 13 with 1145 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 13:14 - Jun 13 by qpr1976 |
Before Roy of the Rovers went off to his own comic, he was in Tiger & Scorcher, which featured other sports/racing, like
Mike's Marvellous Minis
Billy’s Boots (Billy Dane)
Hot Shot Hamish
Skid Solo (motor racing)
Blake Edmonds (disfigured masked ex motor racing champion, with a deathwish !)
Johnny Cougar (wrestling)
Struggling to think of others…..? |
Tiger was great in an era where everyone knew famous sportspeople who weren't footballers. They even had strips where the hero played rugby league or rode speedway! | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 16:54 - Jun 13 with 1122 views | jtuck |
Loved Shoot, especially player questionnaires. The answer to 'Favourite Food' was usually Scampi. Had a subscription to 'The Victor' with the best strip being 'Tough of the Track' featuring working class hero Alf Tupper who was always beating toffs in the mile. | |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 17:04 - Jun 13 with 1110 views | Paddyhoops |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 08:56 - Jun 13 by GaryBannister86 |
Absolutely loved Roy of the Rovers. Always had the xenophobia in the summer when they would go on foreign tours and face despicable cheating foreigners with big moustaches. Then half the side got blown up by a terrorist bomb when abroad too, in some Dangerous Place - RIP Vic Guthrie.
Even Roy of the Rovers wouldn't be appropriate now! |
Legends in there. Geoff Giles , Charlie Carter, Blackie Grey. | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 17:49 - Jun 13 with 1057 views | VancouverHoop |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 16:47 - Jun 13 by Wegerles_Stairs |
Tiger was great in an era where everyone knew famous sportspeople who weren't footballers. They even had strips where the hero played rugby league or rode speedway! |
I remember the first issue of Tiger. It included a cardboard tiger head with a bit of string attached and a packet of rosin. If you dipped your finger and thumb in the rosin and pulled them slowly down the string the tiger roared... kinda! | | | |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 18:58 - Jun 13 with 1003 views | Mick_S |
Aieeeeee. The sound of Japanese soldiers being killed in those funny shaped cartoon war comic strips.
Regarding newspapers, went to by the Times at Heathrow when I was following the Post Office scandal - it was around £4:00. Jasus! |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 19:01 - Jun 13 with 991 views | MrSheen |
| "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers" on 18:58 - Jun 13 by Mick_S |
Aieeeeee. The sound of Japanese soldiers being killed in those funny shaped cartoon war comic strips.
Regarding newspapers, went to by the Times at Heathrow when I was following the Post Office scandal - it was around £4:00. Jasus! |
Eat lead, Nips! | | | |
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