Lion – 29th June, 1968
Hotspur – No.472, 2nd November, 1968
Valiant – 2nd November, 1968
Beano – No.1354, 29th June, 1968
Beano – No.1463, 1st August 1970
The Wizard – No.79, 14th August, 1971

by KingStevoI

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  2. Slightly before my time, but not by much. I started reading the Dandy and Beano in about 1974. My Nan never stopped my Dad’s subscription and she had piles of them.

    Crazy how this little set also bridged decimalisation in 1971, with the Wizard costing two and a half p in new money. The rest in old money.

    I then moved on to more war based ones like Eagle and Warlord.

    That’s a lovely find.

  3. Should I make some new posts throughout the week for each comic? I can photo each page so you can all enjoy them for yourselves.

  6. My big brother had Lion, I wasn’t allowed anything so frivolous, so I started off on [“Treasure”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_(magazine)) that got incorporated into “World of Wonder”, and that got picked up by “Look and Learn”.

    At least I got to see the adventures in the Trigan Empire, and a series of weird and wonderful detective stories based around a self aware computer.

  7. Not much has changed I notice. Spurs are still a comic outfit! 😂

  10. 70s comics were my first act of youthful rebellion. I used to have to secretly buy copies of Action and 2000AD and hide them from my Mum, because she thought they were too violent and would leave me destined for Borstal.

  11. Must be old if it was Biffo rather than Dennis the Menace, I didn’t realise he carried on into the 70s. These are a little before my time (Beano and Dandy were basically it) but they were always good as a cheap thing to fill the time, friends would read them and pass them on. They’ve all got to be dead now surely, and comics in newspapers even.

  12. I have every beano comic plus Christmas hardback from 75-78 in my attic. Some comics still have the toys stuck on, like a frisbee. Getting a bit yellow nowadays though.

  14. Nice find. My era. We had Beano and Hotspur delivered weekly, Beano on a Tuesday and Hotspur on Thursday I think. Hotspur got switched out at some point for Roy of the Rovers. I preferred Dandy over Beano but my dad liked Beano more so that’s what we got.

    By the early 70s I’d switched to NME and Sounds but my mum still bought me the Beano Annual for Christmas ever year ’til I left at 22.

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