It's Saturday morning tomorrow, that golden window of childhood TV and comics. When I was a kid on holiday I'd rush to the newsagents to get the latest summer holiday special of Shiver and Shake or Beezer.
The odd comic was delivered to our house. What luxury! My brothers got Creepy and Eerie comics [they may have gone to get these themselves actually!]. The longest run I had was Look In, the junior TV Times in the 70's. My favourite strip was Kung Fu, based on the popular TV show starring David Carradine. None of my Look Ins survived adolescence apart from a few cuttings and a Kung Fu dragon badge.
It was a couple of years later before I had another subscription at the Newsagents. It was Karate and Oriental Arts magazine. It formed the vanguard of my Martial Arts craze, kicked off for me like so many by Enter The Dragon. Somehow I managed to hold onto a stack of these.
Oddly enough, it would be a magazine about nostalgia that would be become my longest subscription. I started getting Model and Collectors Mart in the early 1990's and I continued right up to its last issue years later. I had so many they were holding the ceiling up! Then the inevitable house move came and I reduced my stack to just a few. It was great fun whilst it lasted though! Maybe I need a new subscription!
What's your longest running comic, magazine, toy line, subscription or collectable?
I would guess it would have to be TV Comic 1st [only because it lasted longer than TV21, TV21 2nd, and Buster and Giggle 3rd with Countdown/TV Action 4th
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, Marvel's 'Planet Of The Apes' comic was the only one I got every week, (though I did get 'Countdown' sometimes), later it became 'Starburst' and 'Doctor Who Magazine', now nothing at all!
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