What was your favourite comic or character

MaggieMay. Thank goodness you have mentioned Sandie, as I was beginning to think that I must have dreampt up that one ))) I loved it!

One of the comics - I can't remember which - would print pictures of school badges on the back page. I sent mine in and won a woolly tartan scarf - the first thing I had ever won and probably almost the last !! (And yes, I still have it)

"The Girls Crystal" Oh my goodness that takes me back - I loved that comic!
I have decades of Beano and Dandy comics all itemised and stored in separate sleeves and packed away, they all belong to my son, I don`t know what he intends doing with them, perhaps I should sell them and go off on a Cruise lol There again it might only get me a day ferry ticket to somewhere

First comic hero was Desperate Dan - I think I was impressed by his pies!
Later I loved School Friend and Girl's Crystal, especially the picture stories where 4 girls at boarding school solved strange mysteries. They usually crept about at night following spooky figures through secret doors and down underground passages!

I remember Sunny Stories too. Also I had an annual every Christmas, gifts were much simpler then.
Does anyone remember Sunny Smiles, pictures of babies sold in aid of children's homes I think.

I started off on the Buster comic and then onto Bunty. Like Kaycee, I also loved cutting out the clothes from the back page and kept all of them in a little box, as a kind of wardrobe. I remember The Four Marys stories very well but, even then, thought that their long black gymslips looked very old fashioned! I can remember when the Fab comic first came out. Their was a free gift of a little bracelet that had just one charm on it. You had to continue to buy the comic every week to collect the other charms. I couldn't wait to get my copy each week and would race home from the shop to read it.

MaggieMay69 same here re memory ? Childhood neighbours had two older girls and they passed on a bound book of Sunny Stories magazines which date from the late 40's. I think the father must have done the binding and I still have it although the pages are very yellow and thin now. I should pass it on to a museum I suppose as a reminder of children's reading from 60 years ago.

Ahh! Bunty! It was delivered on, I think, a Thursday and I still remember the absolute agony of watching the delivery man so very s l o w l y pushing his bike up the hill to our house.

Like others have mentioned, I too absolutely loved the cutting-out doll to dress. I've often wondered what made it just so very exciting. Do you think it was being able to choose what she wore? We were living in times where children had very little choice about anything that affected them. We ate what we were given and wore what we were told and no one had invented "pester power"!

My sister and I used to get Buntyour and Judy. Once we read them used to swap with our neighbours 3 boys and get the Beano, Dandy and Victor

@Funnygran I have some old Swift copies two, from the '60's! You know, I forget why I go into the next room sometimes, but I remember the front covers of so many of these books that I read with my children! I remember one copy of Swift has two children on a sled!

I still have all the old Annuals that I collected for my daughter, Diana, Sandie, Lion, Twinkle, Topper, Oor Wullie, Bunty, Girls Crystal, The Tufty Club, Beezer, Mandy, Dandy, Beano, and all those little mini-comics you could get for 10p...we have huge bundles, and I'm saving them for my granddaughters! Be nice to have some space back in the house again! My daughters Mum in law wrote for some of the old annuals, and still writes for womens magazines today, look out for T. Ashby! She's very good!

Loved Bunty. Always wanted to win a weaving loom but never did.

I read them all too - School Friend, Bunty, Girls Chrystal and Girl. Still have a couple of annuals and the Girl careers book which as someone else said makes interesting reading today. Was there also one called Swift or is my memory wrong? I seem to remember my younger brother with it before he progressed to Eagle.

I loved Girl and especially Lettuce Leaf. I also liked the historical biographies and remember Elizabeth Fry and Marie Curie. I always had a Girl album for Christmas and I think went to a carol concert they arranged in Cardiff.

I loved Bunty but I can't remember a single story from it. As a teenager it was Jackie which I sometimes got fed up with. My twin my sister and I swapped comics but I'm damned if I can remember many of the titles.
However, I do recall reading 'Jane Eyre' in a comic-strip version and asking Mum if it was a 'proper book'. She said it was so I went off to the library to borrow the real thing. It was in the teenage section and it was tough at twelve to plough through an unabridged version but it remains my favourite book of all time. And I felt a bit miffed to have to pay sixpence (pre-decimal days) to join the library.

Chicks own when small and Girl when older. I also loved the Beano and Dandy but parents did not approve! So read them avidly whenever I could get hold of one - naturally.

Later on, I used to go to a local book exchange with my dad of a Saturday and worked my way through all the Superman, Superboy and Supergirl comics. Sadly we exchanged them every week - some of them are worth a bob or two now!

I was very spoilt for a while as we lived in a Working Mens' Club, and in exchange for keeping the bingo balls in order (an arduous job that took me all of five minutes a day) the Social Secretary treated me to the Beano, Dandy, Bunty, Judy, Mandy and June & School Friend. Bunty was always my favourite. There was a lot of saintly suffering, hidden identities, and ballet.

Bunty was my favourite - I can remember the thrill of the annual at Christmas. I read Moira Kent (?) every week and loved the graceful ballet drawings, and the 'The Four Marys' about girls at a boarding school.

Earlier I had Beano, Topper and Dandy every week and devoured them; I think comics are fine as they do encourage children to read, and then perhaps move on to books.

Girl was my favourite comic and Belle of the Ballet my favourite story, despite being in a solid working class family with just as much chance of flying to the moon as being a ballerina. I also read my brother's comics and liked Alf Tupper: the tough of the track, a story about an athlete who turned up to races in a ragged vest eating fish and chips out of the paper but still managed to beat all the posh lads!

The fourth Mary was Mary Field

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I used to have School Friend and then Valentine. Valentine was more grown up with love stories and always had a centre fold of one of the popular singers of the day. Want to check on what you read I found ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_comic_titles (copy and paste into your search engine) and you can get a list of comics in alphabetic order.

Read my brother's. They were much more exciting! Remember the racier ones i read secretly in my teens.

Bunty then on to Jackie.

I used to get the Robin, I was quite young then. My sister had the Bunty, I loved Jackie when I was older, the Cathy and Claire page!!