Annuals and comics

Bunty and Judy and I got the annuals for Christmas presents. Graduated to Jackie in my teens then on to Petticoat. I especially loved the cut out doll and outfits on the back of the Bunty comic does anyone remember them?

Yes Sook I remember the cut out doll and outfits on the back of the Bunty and I loved them too. I also used to have Bunty and Judy every week, and the annuals at Christmas. I too graduated to Jackie in my teens, do you remember Cathy and Clare the 'agony aunts' in Jackie?

I used to get the Rupert annual too, when I was younger. Only ever read the rhyming couplets, not the full story at the bottom of the page though!

As well as School Friend, I remember Girl's Crystal - it was pretty similar, but didn't they all have exciting lives? Nothing even vaguely interesting ever happened to me, despite all my best efforts.

Oh, wow, someone else liked 'Eagle' ! I first saw it the year it came out (1951?)
and begged my parents to get it. The thing is, Dan Dare was my first hero, but it had strong women in it as well.
Remember when Professor Peabody rescued him from the Blob?

My parents got all worried because I liked the boys comics...but they were more exciting! When they wanted to stop Eagle I made such a fuss that they got both Girl and Eagle - but Girl was second best, to me.

My parents were the same, Oxon! Mum was worried there was 'summat wrong' with me, then when i got into my mid teens and started going out with boys - she worried even more!! Of course, i was lucky because I had two brothers so the boy comics were always available. And yes, they were more exciting weren't they?

ooh, Dandy and Beano and Rupert Bear. And Flash Gordon at Saturday morning pics.

We weren't allowed to have the Dandy and the Beano; I managed to read them occasionally in the dentist's waiting room and in friends' houses. We didn't have that great Scottish publication, the Sunday Post, either, but fortunately, Granny round the corner had it every week and we were able to keep up with the antics of Oor Wullie and the Broons. Oh, you Sassenachs don't know what you missed!

I loved Girl, Schoo Friend and Girls Crystal. My sister loved Bunty. I used to get the annuals for this mags, together with Rupert annuals.

Bunty had the cut-out doll with clothes on the back page. I used to love that! I think Bunty came out on a Tuesday and School Friend on a Wednesday?

I didn`t have Bunty, but I remember playing with the cardboard dolls with paper clothes until I was 14, approaching 15. Nowadays they have boyfriends and some are having babies by that age, or was I young for my age? This was in the 1950s.

Robin and then Girl. When I went to boarding school we weren't allowed comics but I was allowed to have a weekly which was all about nature and the world in general - can't remember its name as it was, then, boring but I had it in the absence of anything else and at least I got something in the post every week . pamagaI was a Busy Bee too - I once had a 'fete' in my Dad's garage with my friend Margaret Clark and raised £5. We gave £2 and 10 shillings to the PDSA and my Mum insisted we gave the other half to the Mother's Union for some inexplicable reason . I've still got the thank-you letter from the PDSA. Did anyone else collect the Robertson's jam G....ys? I think I only managed to get one brooch, it took so long for us to get through the jam!

Just remembered - it was called Look and Learn !

Nannyliz I do remember Cathy and Clare.

Annobel the Sunday Post was available in Sassenach land. My mother was an avid reader of it and my Welsh dad was a great fan of the Broons.

I remember the Sunday Post in Dundee when I lived there. It was the one that had those little unbelievable stories in a middle page.
They used to pay people to use their names and write all this fiction - like the one about my husband who had his marrow explode in the pantry because he over fertilised it.....he didn't even have a garden at the time....
I think they were often believed!

I've always been a great reader and can remember reading Girl and the Childrens Newspaper. Anyone else who used to read that? Later on I read Film Fun and my first pin up was Jeremy Spenser!

I remember the Children's newspaper, I used to love it. How many years did that go on for?

Mum used to get me Children's Newspaper. I seem to remember I would only bother with the front page, so she stopped getting it and let me carry on reading my brothers' comics.

She did try with me....and I think I was very trying.

I had Look and Learn then went on to Jackie. When I was in the Brownies I had that mag, too - even had things published, a little story about my budgie and a poem about winter

My grandparents subscribed to the Children's Newspaper for me. I liked the crossword puzzle. There were many adverts for fancy stamps 'on approval'. My poor parents were horrified when packages of stamps started to arrive in the post because I had sent for them! They felt obliged to pay for them, but explained in no uncertain terms what 'on approval' meant!

Annobel - my two smallest grandchildren will come out with "Crivens", "jings" and "help ma Bob." (Or is it "Boab""?) DH has made sure they know their roots!

(My DF-L used to say, of "The Sunday Post", "Say what you will, there's nae filth in it, lassie.")

Definitely 'Boab', Ariadne. And your F-L was right. The SP always was an essentially innocent publication. Not sure why my father was dead against it. A preference for the Observer probably. And DC Thomson has always been a fairly reactionary outfit.

Golden Gran I have just found an interesting website www.lookandlearn.com/childrens-newspaper/history.php which gives the history of The Childrens Newspaper. It was started in 1919 by Arthur Mee who also edited a book from my childhood "One Thousand Beautiful Things". Mee had died in 1943 and it was modernised over the years. Look and Learn from the same publishers, began in 1962 and The Childrens Newspaper closed in 1965. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn something new!

I had 'Princess' as a child and 'Petticoat' as a teenager.