Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat under threat!

[BillF]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/13/oldest-comic-the-dandy-faces-closure

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

£1-99 !!!!!!!!!

Good grief!!!!!

And Beano doing well at 38,000 circulation?

Well, in the end, kids have found other stuff to do. It's like the death of jazz.

MG

[sidewinder]

Cow Pie hits the dust..

[BillF]

We shall remember them!

[A Lark Ascending]

Never cared for The Dandy. Even as a 10 year old I found it much too rough. Preferred something more rarefied like TV-21:

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/45-years-ago-first-issue-of-tv21.html

Precious even then!

Edited August 14, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

Never cared for The Dandy. Even as a 10 year old I found it much too rough. Preferred something more rarefied like TV-21:

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/45-years-ago-first-issue-of-tv21.html

Precious even then!

Wow - that brought back the memories. 'Look and Learn' was my usual Saturday essential purchase - along with a Whizzer & Chips chaser. Used to enjoy the TV21 Xmas Annuals !

Edited August 15, 2012 by sidewinder

[JohnS]

No Eagle men here?

[A Lark Ascending]

Wow - that brought back the memories. 'Look and Learn' was my usual Saturday essential purchase - along with a Whizzer & Chips chaser. Used to enjoy the TV21 Xmas Annuals !

I had Look and Learn for a while. Remember reading an article on John Wyndham in it, launching me on my sci-fi novel years (TV 21 must have helped too...it was the time of Stingray, Star Trek and the moon missions, after all).

Though this was my very first comic, sometime around 1960:

Edited August 15, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[kinuta]

No Eagle men here?

Me! The Eagle was one of the high points of my week. Loved Dan Dare, Digby, the Treens and The Mekon. They were the basis for a life long love of SF.

[A Lark Ascending]

No Eagle men here?

Eagle was still going when I 'came of age' but it looked a bit old fashioned by then. I was a Sixties child. Don't recall the 5 years I spent visiting the 50s much.

[sidewinder]

Didn't 'Look and Learn' also run the Dan Dare comic strip after the Eagle had stopped?

Still have several Eagle Annuals, bought second hand. As collectable as Mosaics now !

I was a Sixties child. Don't recall the 5 years I spent visiting the 50s much.

Sixties into the seventies for me. At the time I thought 'TV21' would be the way we would all live around year 2000 and was looking forward to getting my jet back-pack and wearing Baco Foil suits.

Though this was my very first comic, sometime around 1960:

That one looks pretty naff. Up there with the Andy Pandy Annual.

[A Lark Ascending]

That one looks pretty naff. Up there with the Andy Pandy Annual.

I was about 5 at the time! I vividly remember a feature inside based around Mr Toad. There was one scene where he was in court being presided over by a judge in robes. I decided that I wanted to be a judge when I grew up. My father still regrets the eventual career choice I made!

I think I must have moved from comics to 'Disc and Music Echo' about the age of 14 (1969/70).

6p!

Edited August 15, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

As with musical tastes, it's all a matter of generation. Count me in as another Eagle man. I missed out on the first few numbers, but was sold them a few weeks later at an extortionate price by a schoolmate (this at the age of 10!). Surprised I haven't heard of him since, but he probably changed his name to Branson!

[Head Man]

No Eagle men here?

...or Hotspur?

Edited August 15, 2012 by Head Man

[cih]

I was a Beano kid - I used to love it, but would eye enviously 'Whizzer & Chips' because they always had free gifts on the cover. But Whizzer & Chips was sort of the ITV of comics, and Beano the BBC (and my dad was a BBC man - always got the Radio Times and never bought the TV Times as it wasn't necessary to know what was on ITV).

[Pete C]

We are the Desperate Dan appreciation society

God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was an Eagle kid. I liked PC49 - I seem to remember that, perhaps in an annual - PC49 introduced me to cockney rhyming slang (I lived in Leeds in those days). Tommy Walls, too - a cartoon ad for Walls' ice cream.

MG

[BillF]

I was an Eagle kid. I liked PC49 - I seem to remember that, perhaps in an annual - PC49 introduced me to cockney rhyming slang (I lived in Leeds in those days). Tommy Walls, too - a cartoon ad for Walls' ice cream.

MG

Would this be it?

[sidewinder]

At least Viz is still going strong..

[BillF]

At least Viz is still going strong..

Ah, yes!

[robertoart]

At least Viz is still going strong..

Ah, yes!

That one looks classy.

[crisp]

Closing on December 4.

[BillF]

Further thoughts on Desperate Dan, etc.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/19/reports-dandy-death-greatly-exaggerated?INTCMP=SRCH