I used to buy those small Commando comic books when i was a kid, used to buy tons on holiday in Cornwall for some reason. They were very good back then, lots of action and none of the wimpy stuff which were in Whizzer and Chips and all that sort of thing.
I used to buy those small Commando comic books when i was a kid, used to buy tons on holiday in Cornwall for some reason. .
We used to buy comics on holidays, there was always carrosels of comics in the shops on carvan sites etc. They sold the small form comics like commando and also back issues of American DC and Marvel comics.
The buthcers's son , who was by then a teenager, down the road from my dad's shop gave me several hundred of them when I was off school with a broken arm.
Nothing beats the comics that we grew up with in the 70s and 80s. They were great. It'd bloody suck to be a kid these days with the crap they have. I think the Beano is still around - but a shadow of its former self.
I always thought the Beano, and Dandy and stuff like that were pretty boring.
Wasn't till I started reading 2000A.D I decided comics were cool.
The Beano was all about not taking a bath, and parodying stereotypes of school 30 years before I went there.
2000A.D made me think.
2000 AD was pretty cool when I was younger, I liked the spin-off comic they brought out. Crisis was pretty cold and hard hitting in some of the issues it tackled.
I remember one of the stories had a drunk kid in school with a bottle of vodka, he shot his P.E. teacher right between the eyes. Now that was long before all this Columbine High and Poncho Mafia bullshit.
I don't own many comics other than Viz back in England, but I do have a mint condition Issue 1 of Deaths head, it's in a plastic sleeve, I kept it nice.
You guessed ! I was visiting CornishDaveys huge great mansion as hes the most successful person i've ever known ;)
Back to comics, i used to LOVE 2000ad back in the day. I've been buying the compilations lately (Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd) and theyre superb, do spend most of the day arguing with my wife that theyre graphic novels and not comics though ;)
You guessed ! I was visiting CornishDaveys huge great mansion as hes the most successful person i've ever known ;)
And how did he get the money for that mansion, eh? Bush, Hitler, Oil... who bankrolled Cornishdavey? Read the facts at www.mrspinningeyeballsblog.co.uk . WHO GAINS??!!! OPEN TEH EYES!1
Heh, brings back memories. Great racist comic and no one could dis it or the real vets would be up in arms :)
I love steroetypes.
:lol:
Surely 'Aaaaiiiiieeeee!' is how the Japanese die, not the Germans? ;)
Most ridiculous one I remember was when some guy (possibly Johnny Red) was shooting up a Kraut airfield, one of the Huns on the ground exclaimed something and the guy in the cockpit replied!
Great racist comic and no one could dis it or the real vets would be up in arms :)
I love steroetypes.
I think these comics were just a continuation of the Government sponsored stuff that was generated during wartime. The armed forces were more conciliatory.
My dad was blown out the water by a torpedo. He lost his brother-in-law but three years earlier, in peacetime, his shipmates had stood alongside their German counterparts as German sailors were buried on Gibraltar. When the u-boat captain was captured, the Admiralty took him for tea at the Lyons coffee-house and treated him with respect. In peacetime the British sailors formed a reunion society and the German u-boat crew were guests of honour in London.
Same with the army which is why I have German and Italian aunts and cousins.
The Beano and Dandy reinforced stereotypes but 'Black Bag' in Viz would not be funny without 'Black Dog'.
A number of members of this Forum are German and they contribute elsewhere to the Spectrum and emulator scene. Such negative stereotypes should not be perpetuated here. The original Spectrum designer wrote his books under the pen-name Richard Francis and only later, as directors of Jupiter Cantab did he, and his brother, use their German surname Altwasser. One hopes it wasn't such comic-borne sentiments that caused him to anglicize his name.
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The only war comic I remember avoided the "British good, Germans bad" stereotypical rubbish, and instead went for a very realistic (and excellent) story.
It started with a high-ranking RAF officer who is largely hated by his men because he's something of a bully. After that it switches to Germany, where a Nazi officer is saying something like "I will be glad to see the back of this lousy district" while his chauffeur is secretly thinking "Not as much as this district will be glad to see the back of you, mein kommandant -- you've killed thousands of civilians". (Or maybe those two intros were t'other way round; it doesn't matter that much.)
Eventually, the RAF squadron gets captured, and ends up in a POW camp run by the German we saw earlier -- and it turns out that the two commanders (RAF and SS) are almost identical in appearance. Eventually the squad escape, but their commander is recaptured and sentenced to death; but (I bet most of you saw this coming) the one actually executed is the German, due to a deliberate "mistake" on the part of his staff, who hate him as much as everyone else he's worked with.
It all ends happily, with good triumphing over evil on both sides of the English Channel. I loved it for the way that it portrayed German civilians and rank-and-file soldiers as being just ordinary decent people, like their British counterparts. Also that even British officers can be just as much a***holes as any other officers.
I never make misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs — oh, sod it.
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We used to buy comics on holidays, there was always carrosels of comics in the shops on carvan sites etc. They sold the small form comics like commando and also back issues of American DC and Marvel comics.
Nothing up with Whizzer and Chips !! (or Whoopee! or Buster come to think of it)
All but one of them was 'previously published'.
"Eat Hot Lead Fritz" was my favourite expression.
Tell the truth you were visiting Davey :D
and probably will be for life
Wasn't till I started reading 2000A.D I decided comics were cool.
The Beano was all about not taking a bath, and parodying stereotypes of school 30 years before I went there.
2000A.D made me think.
2000 AD was pretty cool when I was younger, I liked the spin-off comic they brought out. Crisis was pretty cold and hard hitting in some of the issues it tackled.
I remember one of the stories had a drunk kid in school with a bottle of vodka, he shot his P.E. teacher right between the eyes. Now that was long before all this Columbine High and Poncho Mafia bullshit.
B.A.D.S was one of the strips in that I liked. Sticky Fingers was a bit, well, pointless.
Actually when I was 17/18 I spent a small fortune on comics.
Bad Company, Dragons Teeth, Deaths Head, Rogue Trooper, 2000a.d weekly and 2000 a.d monthly, etc etc
If my alter-ego wasn't thx1138 it would have been Rogue Trooper. Rogue Trooper must have inspired the creators of Master Chief.
I also liked Mad Magazine, but that's probably not everyones cup of tea, but I liked the sarcasm without the politics.
I don't own many comics other than Viz back in England, but I do have a mint condition Issue 1 of Deaths head, it's in a plastic sleeve, I kept it nice.
You guessed ! I was visiting CornishDaveys huge great mansion as hes the most successful person i've ever known ;)
Back to comics, i used to LOVE 2000ad back in the day. I've been buying the compilations lately (Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd) and theyre superb, do spend most of the day arguing with my wife that theyre graphic novels and not comics though ;)
Thank god for .cbr files also ;)
And how did he get the money for that mansion, eh? Bush, Hitler, Oil... who bankrolled Cornishdavey? Read the facts at www.mrspinningeyeballsblog.co.uk . WHO GAINS??!!! OPEN TEH EYES!1
Die Englander pig!
Aaaaiiiieeeee!
Heh, brings back memories. Great racist comic and no one could dis it or the real vets would be up in arms :)
I love steroetypes.
:lol:
Surely 'Aaaaiiiiieeeee!' is how the Japanese die, not the Germans? ;)
Most ridiculous one I remember was when some guy (possibly Johnny Red) was shooting up a Kraut airfield, one of the Huns on the ground exclaimed something and the guy in the cockpit replied!
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My dad was blown out the water by a torpedo. He lost his brother-in-law but three years earlier, in peacetime, his shipmates had stood alongside their German counterparts as German sailors were buried on Gibraltar. When the u-boat captain was captured, the Admiralty took him for tea at the Lyons coffee-house and treated him with respect. In peacetime the British sailors formed a reunion society and the German u-boat crew were guests of honour in London.
Same with the army which is why I have German and Italian aunts and cousins.
The Beano and Dandy reinforced stereotypes but 'Black Bag' in Viz would not be funny without 'Black Dog'.
A number of members of this Forum are German and they contribute elsewhere to the Spectrum and emulator scene. Such negative stereotypes should not be perpetuated here. The original Spectrum designer wrote his books under the pen-name Richard Francis and only later, as directors of Jupiter Cantab did he, and his brother, use their German surname Altwasser. One hopes it wasn't such comic-borne sentiments that caused him to anglicize his name.
--
G.
It started with a high-ranking RAF officer who is largely hated by his men because he's something of a bully. After that it switches to Germany, where a Nazi officer is saying something like "I will be glad to see the back of this lousy district" while his chauffeur is secretly thinking "Not as much as this district will be glad to see the back of you, mein kommandant -- you've killed thousands of civilians". (Or maybe those two intros were t'other way round; it doesn't matter that much.)
Eventually, the RAF squadron gets captured, and ends up in a POW camp run by the German we saw earlier -- and it turns out that the two commanders (RAF and SS) are almost identical in appearance. Eventually the squad escape, but their commander is recaptured and sentenced to death; but (I bet most of you saw this coming) the one actually executed is the German, due to a deliberate "mistake" on the part of his staff, who hate him as much as everyone else he's worked with.
It all ends happily, with good triumphing over evil on both sides of the English Channel. I loved it for the way that it portrayed German civilians and rank-and-file soldiers as being just ordinary decent people, like their British counterparts. Also that even British officers can be just as much a***holes as any other officers.
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.