First Issue: 23rd January 1965Last Issue: 16th July 1977Copyright: DC Thomson ‘The Moonsters’ by Bill Ritchie was the story of Penny and Peter Pleasant who were visiting a space travel show when Peter’s sticky fingers led to a space ship taking off with Peter and Penny inside. The back page of Issue two of saw…
First Issue: 17th February 1953Last Issue: 15th September 1990Copyright: DC Thomson First issue of ‘The Topper’ introduced ‘Mickey the Monkey’. The cheerful little monkey was the all colour star of the front cover. With the asistance of his friend ‘Polly’ the parrot, Mickey went on to make 1074 front cover appearances before settling down inside…
First Issue: 9th March 1974Last Issue: 30th March 1985Copyright: IPC Magazines Whoopee issue number one appeared on 9th March 1974 and included a free gift of a ‘ Super Squirt Ring’. Stories in the first issue were Snap Happy, Little Miss Muffit, The Ghost Train, The Upper Crusts and the Lazy Loafers, Clobber Ernie Learner,…
Nutty Comic 21st November 1992 First Issue: 16th February 1980Last Issue: 14th September 1985Copyright: DC Thomson Who is Bananaman? Bananamana is Eric Wimp From the same publishers that brought you Desperate Dan and Denis the Menace, DC Thomson brought us Bananaman. Eric Wimp AKA Bananaman made his first appearance on the back page of the…
The Victor Comic I flew with Braddock First Issue: 25th February 1961Last Issue: 21st November 1992Copyright: DC Thomson The Victor Comic number one appeared on 25th February 1961 and lasted for 1558 issues. The first issue saw the appearance of “I Flew with Braddock” (George Bourne). “I flew with Braddock” was the story of war…
First Issue: 23rd September 1922Last Issue: 16th November 1963Copyright: DC Thomson The Wizard was one of DC Thomson’s Big 5 story papers which were launched in response to the popularity of ‘The Gem’ and ‘The Magnet’ Along with ‘The Wizard’, DC Thomson also launched ‘The Rover’, ‘The Skipper’ and ‘The Hotspur’. Stories in The Wizard…
First Issue: 18th October 1969Last Issue: 27th October 1990Copyright: IPC Magazines Homage to Illustrated Chips 18th October 1969 saw the appearance of a new, two in one, comic which paid homage to an old British comic’s favourite ‘Illustrated Chips’ which had ran from 1890 to 1953. Stories in Whizzer: Belle Tent, Bobby’s Ghoul, Champ, Doodle,…
First Issue: 4th January 1958Last Issue: 3rd October 1959Copyright: Odhams Zip comic was destined to last just 85 issues before joining Swift in the Eagle Stable (or should that be aviary). The First issue of Zip featured ‘Strongbow the Mighty’ by Ron Embleton, ‘Wells Fargo’ by Don Lawrence, ‘Tana the Jungle Boy’ by Harry Bishop,…
First Issue: 28th September 1974Last Issue: 27th September 1986Copyright: DC Thomson DC Thomson, publishers of Beano, Dandy and notably Commando introduced the first weekly comic devoted to war. Warlord, with its emphasis on blood and guts didn’t attempt to pull any punches and its influence on the comic world was profound. Not only did the…
