First Issue: 3rd May 1986Last Issue: 22nd October 1988Copyright: Fleetway ‘Oink!’ comic appeared to position itself as a children’s version of the popular adult comic ‘Viz’. ‘Oink!’ ran for a total of 68 issues during which time it published fortnightly between May 1986 and December 1987, weekly between January and May 1988 and towards the…
First Issue: 23rd February 1985Last Issue: 2nd September 1989Copyright: DC Thomson Nikki’ comic with ‘The Comp’, ‘I Won’t Share her With Him!’, ‘Reach for the Stars!’, ‘School for the Fogotten’, ‘Photo Finish’, ‘The Secret Piano’, ‘Spotty’ and Just the Two of Us…’. ‘Nikki’ comic ran for 237 issue before its merger with ‘Bunty’. ‘Nikki’ Comic…
First Issue: 14th June 1975Last Issue: 30th October 1976Copyright: IPC Magazines ‘Monster Fun’ issue number one appeared on 14th June 1975 and included a free gift of a ‘ Free Plate Wobbler’. Stories in the first issue were Kid Kong, X-Ray Specs, Martha’s Monster Make-Up, Dough Nut and Rusty, Grizzly Bearhug Giant, Art’s Gallery, Draculass,…
First Issue: 25th October 1986Last Issue: 22nd October 1988Copyright: IPC Magazines MASK was originally a cartoon series devised to sell toys for Kenner, a division of Hasboro. MASK was an initialism which stood for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. MASK were tasked to defeat their archenemy Miles Mayhem and VENOM which stood for Vicious, Evil Network of…
First Issue: 21st January 1967Last Issue: 13th July 1997Copyright: DC Thomson It would be remiss of any discussion about British comics not to pay homage to the British girls’ comics. Iconic above all others was Mandy comic which appeared in 1967. In her blue dress, yellow matching shirt sleeves and Alice band, Mandy made her…
First Issue: 15th February 1908Last Issue: 1940Copyright: Amalgamated Press Before comics, there were story papers. Story papers were long text stories with the occasional illustration. Britain has a rich tradition of story papers and any talk of story papers would have to include one the most famous ones, ‘The Magnet Library’. Magnet was the sister…
First Issue: 22nd July 1939Last Issue: 25th January 1941Copyright: DC Thomson Following the success of ‘The Beano Comic’ and ‘The Dandy Comic’, DC Thomson launched a third comic called ‘The Magic Comic’. ‘Koko the Pup’, ‘Full of Tricks and Full of Fun – Koko is a Pal for Everyone’ The front cover star of first…
First Issue: 9th January 1971Last Issue: 12th March 1994Copyright: Independent Television Look-in was the children’s version of the TV Times and mostly consisted of strips of the children’s favourite programs on television including ‘The Tomorrow People’, ‘Space:1999’, ‘The Bionic Woman’, ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, ‘Sapphire & Steel’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Buck Rogers’, ‘Charlies Angels’,and ‘Knight Rider’….
First Issue: 24th January 1931Last Issue: 21st july 1934Copyright: Amalgamated Press ‘The Bullseye’ ran fior 183 issues before being relaunched as a comic called ‘Film Picture Stories’. During its run as a story paper, the title published the following stories ‘The Chat’, ‘The House Of Thrills’, ‘The Night Patrol’, ‘The Phantom Of Cursitor Fields’, ‘Mortimer…
