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Alf Tupper was my hero.
Lived on fish and chips.I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysUsed to read the dandy and the beano as a kid when mother used to take us for a haircut
I once got nearly all the way home reading one until mother noticed and marched us back to the hairdressers to hand it back…
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
As well as Dandy and Beano we shouldn’t forget Cor, The Beezer, Topper, Whizzer and Chips and, my favourite, Sparky
These comic titles bring me back to my youth.
Beano had Biffo The Bear in on front cover when I read it, and inside was Little Plum, Roger The Dodger, Minnie The Minx and Dennis the Menace.
Dandy had Korky The Cat, Desperate Dan (which reminds me of Boys From The Black Stuff), Winker Watson,
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.I always felt empathy for Lord Snooty and Walter The Softy, can’t think why
Kids’ stuff though. We serious, lonely, otherworldly boys got solace from The Eagle: it was a traumatic time when that multicoloured masterpiece merged with monochrome Lion to become the pisspoor Lion & Eagle, save for Brainiac
Likewise, the short-lived Terrific’s merger with Fantastic around the same time circa 1968 was a blow; though I only bought that for Doctor Strange, who was indeed terrifically fantastic or perhaps fantastically terrific
Shielded by his psychic force field, Dr Strange is pulled towards an unknown destination, past sights which no mortal brain can hope to comprehend…
“I’m free of the netherworld! I can sense my body aging once more! This is a dimension where time exists…I must be on the edge of my own cosmos! Will I remain here or will I plunge once more into the places of perpetual night?”
The Rover was another favourite of mine as I entered my teens.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysPurwell, never read The Rover but was Roy from the Rovers from that comic.
Two I’d liked but not in a comic more from a Sunday Newspaper called Our Willie & The Broons. The paper was the Sunday Post, which was a Scottish publication, but available in the Manchester area.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.
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