A Lost Youth There was a time when you could walk into your local newsagents or paper shop and the shelves would be teeming with comics. Sadly those days are gone. Even the world’s longest running comic, The Dandy, which was once a permanent feature has disappeared from the shelves. My introduction to comics came…
First Issue: 26th February 1977Last Issue: N/ACopyright: Eagle Comics/Fleetway /IPC Magazines/Rebellion In the week that 2000AD first appeared, the number one pop song was When I Need You by Leo Sayer, there was a Labour government and this day also saw the very first flight of the ‘Space Shuttle’, albeit on the top of…
It is generally agreed that Funny Folks (1874 – 1894) became the first publication to meet the accepted definition of a comic. Funny Folks began as a supplement to the Weekly Budget. Its popularity led to it being published as a separate weekly paper. The success of Funny Folks encouraged the publication of other weekly…
