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I was a pretty big comic book geek, and even today one of my good friends laughs at how much I can remember from the most obscure Marvel offering.
My main introduction to the various groups like the X-Men, the Avengers, and the Defenders was through Marvel's Secret Wars:
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In the meantime, I suddenly remembered a series I loved but lost and that had nothing to do with superheroes. It was called 'Black Dragon':
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Anyone remember it?
What were your favourites?
Warlord.
The Beano
[b]DING[/b]
The Dandy.
Quality pies.
Commando, when I was a kid.
These days my brother passes me graphic novels he thinks I'll like, new or old stuff... just wading my way through nikolai dante which I read a wee bit of first time round, then there's some ancient zenith... Might have to reread Preacher so I can disapprove of the TV series harder.
2000AD
Tales from the crypt
MAD
Tales of horror
Still reading 2000AD.
current favourites - Chew, BPRD/Hellboy, Atomic Robo.
My favourite was Lobo, worth checking out, it would still be funny...
Probably...
I loved The Punisher, just been browsing some of the comics on Amazon today.
2000ad was always good
but then I got to reminising about these two from ym school days:
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Love & Rockets,
Hate (and whatever it's predecessor was that Buddy grew out of)
Eightball
Yummy Fur.
Back in the eighties I think.
Further back, Sparky & Corr.
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Robert crumb also does some brilliant stuff
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not just for the artwork but also the humour... where else do you get a robot assassin that thinks he's Ginger Rogers?
a mate of mine illustrates for BPRD/Hellboy. His work is painstaking and magnificent.
Yossarian I'm in awe, love the Hellboy comics artwork
When I was younger I religiously bought the Transformers comics as well as Spidey, later 2000AD
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Never seen "The Black Dragon", but that artwork looks like the excellent John Bolton. Funny how you can spot certain styles straight away.
Freak brothers when I was younger and being an 80s graffiti writer it was obviously the work of Vaughn Bode by the time I hit my early teens
classic stuff
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Very sad that he died the year after I was born
The Victor
Tupper, tough of the track
I might have mentioned this before, but an old pal of mine is now a huge big-shot in comics, and away back when he was getting set up he did some stuff for 2000AD.
For reasons that now escape me, he named a character in the strip he was doing after me (my real name, I mean), and so my obscure claim to fame is that I had my own character in 2000AD for 8 or so issues in 1990/91.
He's a cool guy 🙂
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MAD used to make me laugh....
and was a fully paid up member of the Dennis The Menace fanclub.
Another 2000ad fan here mainly rogue trooper, nemesis and abc warriors, started the buying back issues when I hit 40. Brought back loadsa memories , the joy of riding the shops on my ultra burner to spend my £1 pocket money on the latest issue and a bag of sherbet lemons 🙂
Amazing how some of the artists visions of the future have come true
Otto sump = plastic surgery
Mobile phones etc.
Anything by Jack Kirby.
Another Hate and Love and Rockets (and other Hernandez brothers work) fan here. Also 2000 AD, Transformers, Action Force/GI Joe and other 80s cartoon comics like Visionaries and Thundercats, marvel UK titles like overkill (featuring Deaths Head), Tank Girl, Alan Moore, Frank Miller.....
My only regular buy these days though is Viz.
Nasty Tales, Cozmics, anything by Robert Crumb.
I think I must've lead a sheltered childhood.
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Dredd!
At the moment the Saga series is fantastically well done.
Spiderman, liked the humor in them. Would have loved to buy some sea monkeys or Xray specs from the ads in the back of the old comics but alas I was only poor 🙁
2000AD, I currently have the Strontium Dog Search/Destroy Agency Files to get through, plus a Mean Machine and Chopper compendium. Not even got started on Dredd (have Vol.1) but do have a few of the complete stories.
Absolute favourite though is Young Death.
When not buried in 2000AD then Calvin and Hobbes is another go-to. Dilbert helped me pass a business module at uni (probably about 80% of my knowledge of Organisational Management and Context).
Isn't that Germaine Greer on the cover of Oz? And a pensive Vivian Stanshall?
..fettling Keith Lemon?
Doonesbury is my favourite comic strip, but that is not the question.
Always like to read Tiger when I was a kid because of Skid Solo.
Never got into 2000AD but would look at friends copies.
v for vendetta is an amazing graphic novel. had a profound affect on a 16 year old me. still relevant as well...
the robert crumb etc 'zap comix' stuff is great as well. a mate had a huge compilation of 'zap' - I've never managed to track a copy down despite years of looking.
and finally, i loved the 'like a velvet glove cast in iron' by daniel clowes.i'd like to see that being made into a film by someone that could do it justice...
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Isn't that Germaine Greer on the cover of Oz? And a pensive Vivian Stanshall?
Indeed. There is an even better shot that was not used for the cover. I'll leave it to you to find.
as a small kid in the 60's the only comic got on a regular basis was The Victor
- Dandys and Beanos came from Jumble Sales
The Victor was very odd full of 2nd world war stuff and Alf Tupper
fongsaiyuk - Member
thanks Fat Freddy and The Furry Freak Bros - completely forgotten except for the cockroaches - my much older brother had a big collection - friday night here so I'll see what can see on line
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My two favourites were:
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Cougar seems to be the other reader of Cheeky apart from me.
Star Lord
2000AD
X-Men
Moon Knight
Alpha Flight
Conan The Barbarian
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As Charlie Brooker put it
[i]No paper wants to gratuitously offend the reader. Pity, because gratuitous offence, when performed with aplomb, is the funniest thing in the world. There's more unpretentious joie de vivre in a single issue of vintage-era Viz than most artists or singers manage in a lifetime. [/i]
Jezuz..
My favourite was BATTLE / ACTION FORCE which was ace... I just Google'd it. Found a site with them on...And the first issue was 1983! So I was 7 years old. Actually a little shocked.
+1 for Crisis. IMHO pretty much kicked off the whole 'adult' comic thing. New Statesmen was an amazing story.
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Obviously 2000ad.
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Marshall Law.
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The Maxx.
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Preacher.
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Asterix.
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Anything with Dave McKean's artwork in it.
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Anything by Jamie Hewlett.
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@aphex I thought you meant this:
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No way that 83, I was left school by then. Also remember warlord (I was a secret agent, deciphering their special coded messages... 😳 )
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Metal Hurlant. They introduced me to Jean Giraud.
Ha! I remember buying that copy of Warlord!
As to Crisis re-starting the "adult comic" movement (after Oz & the alternative/ underground comics of the Seventies), I'd choose Watchmen and then Deadline. There is a great film out - Future Shock - that relates the history of 2000AD, and in watching it, found that an old college friend now runs Rebellion.
Russ Abbott
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I used to be jealous of my sister because she got Whizzer and Chips where as I had to make do with The Beano. I was delighted when she moved on to Just 17 as it meant I was allowed to get W&C.
Also used to like Viz. The Garry Bushell pee take 'Gary Bluto' is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
i got Battle comic every week as a kid, Johnny Red, Charlies War, The rat Pack etc great reading...i then later on got into American comics, got a couple of thousand i suppose...they generally sit around me.
currently liking Old Man Logan (Marvel) and Southern Bastards (Image),...Image do some really good stuff, (Black Science) and you can get re-print first issues for just a pound at the moment from your local friendly comic store.
Saga is good, also another Image book,...walking dead....
i could go on all night really... always liked silver surfer, but i'm not all that keen on his latest re-incarnation.
The 'Standoff Avengers' arc is quite interesting and very now.
Really like the old 50s EC stuff too, haunt of fear, tales from the crypt etc, got a few of those originals, great stuff and rare.
Love comics.
Beano, most weeks, with my 20p pocket money (10p for the comic and a 10p mix up- no liquorice or aniseed cos they're rank). I was also a fully paid-up member of the Dennis the Menace fan club 😀
Oh, and Oink
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The Victor and Commando..
Forgot about Deadline...
Parents bought me the Eagle as a kid in the 80s but never really got massively into comics beyond that.
Favourites were Doomlord & Dan Dare
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This is a sample what I used to read but I read many more ... Never into the Marvel ...
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Warrior.
It's where V for Vendetta and other seminal British stories were housed before getting sued out of existence for Captain Marvel.
Nothing profound to add here: 2000 AD & Marvel. Never liked DC that much for some unknown reason
Ah how could I forget Transformers? Great stuff at that age but some surprisingly serious themes and big elaborate plots in there, for an extended toy advert.
DING
DONG
Youre slipping kayla1
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Probably prefered VIZ but for years no one seemed to have heard of
Gutter, then I found my brothers stash of them.
What ever happened to Miraculous Martha, I have a drawing a cartoonist
did of me with Miraculous Martha;-)
So obscure, it's only mentioned on the UK comics wiki in passing as being published by the same people as "zit", a poor Viz clone:
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2000 AD when it first came out and one called Bullet with its swarthy mustachioed hero Fireball (both late '70s). Still get Viz even if only for the Drunken Bakers, Top Tips and Rogers Profanosaurus.
Doraemon is also a good read. Very futuristic ...
My comics are mainly, Japanese, Chinese HK and a bit of South East Asia.
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I have 220 of these in my loft.
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Never liked DC that much for some unknown reason
Agree with this x1000000000
As for some of the rest of you, no wonder I found Britain so cynical and somewhat vulgar when I first moved here! Cheeky, Viz, Zit, Gutter, and even Dennis the Menace and Gnasher to some extent, could hardly have made for very edifying reading... 🙄