Classic Books .

[robG]

Just picked up a cracking book, The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways.Its a compilation of cutaway drawings taken from the Eagle annual of the 50's & 60's. Its full of the kind of technical drawings , the like of which you don't see often now . Everything from an escalator to Concorde .It comes from a time when,quote " {Britain } would be an upright ,optimistic , yet bright and cheerful land where we would still whistle on our way to work ".

It got me thinking. In my day , comics of note were The Victor , Wizzard and The Warlord . All spiffing reads and really very traditional .

What were the comics of choice of other chaps ?

[Bill Rutter]

Saturday mornings in the early 60's...my brother going round to Ernie Jones' paper shop for The Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Victor. Happy days, I can smell my dear old Mum's cooking now!

[guest7]

Warlord (I still have #1 tucked away somewhere). Also I loved those Commando comics... why did they used sometimes to have adverts for wedding rings on the back?

Favourite cliché from those comics, a startled German sentry rumbling the disguise of a commando just before said commando uses his knife to great and lethal effect. The German's last words were, without fail, "Voss ist loss? you are not Hans".

Mind you I also read a compilation of Kafka when I was 10 (which explains a lot about my troubled psyche), along with every other book in the whole house, ranging from the classics to my dad's Sven Hassel novels.

GC

[Andy M]

Possibly too much Flashman in my case (see photo) 

I liked those commando comics too.

Andy

[Richard]

I used to have loads of those comics, all in an ex shop display stand for them.  After we got married my wife made me throw them out as "we wouldn't want the children reading them".  Some years later I have realised, to late, that they would have loved to read them and I should have kept them.  Along with all my old 2000AD comics.

Richard

[OMEGAMAN]

Don't forget the "Topper" & the "Valiant"

Regarding those Commando comics, I seem to recall an obsession with  "those piano toothed weevils" when referring to the Japanese?

Stuck in my mind to this day for some reason!

[guest7]

LOL, I looked for commando comic images, what came up first?



Voss ist loss? you are not Hans....eurgh!"

GC

[Richard]

Which is where most of my, admittedly limited, command of German comes from.

"Vos ist los"

"Achtung Spitfeur"

"For you Tommy ze vor is over"

And so on.

Richard

[guest7]

You're forgetting:

Schnell, schnell, englisher swine.

GC

[robG]

I chuckle when I think that the stories in the Commando books , Victor , Warlord , Valiant et al seemed fairly recent when read all those years ago , depicted events only 30years in the past .The outbreak of the second world war will be seventy years ago next year.
I am now at the stage where the reading of those stories is some thirty years in the past .

It seems that when you get to a certain age , all our comics have to be prefixed by ' Classic ' ,  'Heritage ' or ' Period ' , e.g;

Classic Bike , Classic Motorcycle , Heritage Railway , Period Home { Memsahib's comic } .

No wonder I'm grey !

How about a section in the newsletter , Classic Heritage Period Thumper ? ,in which we relate tales of  our first exposure to Thumping ?

[guest146]

I still have several originals from the comic.
Bugger I feel old now

Ken

[squirrelciv]

My Dad used to work at Beachley Army apprentice college and would come home with dozens of 'Commando' comics and the like that he'd confiscate from the squaddies.
I loved them. Only thing my parents could get me to read as a kid.

[mini-thumper]

It seems that when you get to a certain age , all our comics have to be prefixed by ' Classic ' ,  'Heritage ' or ' Period ' , e.g;

Classic Bike , Classic Motorcycle , Heritage Railway , Period Home { Memsahib's comic } .

No wonder I'm grey !

How about a section in the newsletter , Classic Heritage Period Thumper ? ,in which we relate tales of  our first exposure to Thumping ?

Whilst I await the telegram confirming (or not) my appointment as Chief-Cook-&-Bottle-Washer for our esteemed, if irregular, newsletter maybe we could use the above as a catalyst for a new name? OLD SINGULARITY, ONE LUNG* or possibly THUMPING (to drag in the pugilists). 

Discuss

Boyd
* Could even go for a Leftfield reference to an old teacher of mine who had BLUE LIPS on account of his One Lung. That might be deemed a bit crass!   

[robG]

Being of a ' heducated ' background , how about the latin translation of ;

One lung ? or big single ? etc etc ...........................................

[squirrelciv]

How about 'The Big Bore'?


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