2000 AD Online Forum

As I am a collector of those comics that came before 2000AD, does anyone wish to share their thoughts on comics such as Victor, Battle, Action, Wizard, etc?

Before 2000AD there was 1999, and all previous years, going back to the big bang, and what ever was before that.

Victor - DC Thomson war comic?

I used to get;

2000ad
Battle / actionforce (when the 2 melded)
Roy of the rovers
and i vaguely recall -
Lion
Valliant.

think i may have some still at my dads.... bloody good reads most of them, but looking back, there was some utter shite....

Heh, you looking to buy any Battle Action Force?

How much do you want for em Dave?

Well...I'll let you know what I've got and see what we can get to. Approximatley 100 issues, 7 annuals, 2 specials, various free gifts, and a bag of assorted toys.

I'vce fond memoris of a comic about spacemen visiting a planet of robots, ruled by a bodiless robot head that had to be carried around on a cushion. Could it be Starblazer?

i was a big vulcan fan
the trigan empire stil gives me nightmares
one particular episode where young men
where turned into doddering old fools
the spider
kellys eye.
the house of dolls
ahhh now im going up to the loft to dig them out.

Starblazer, mini comic books, pure joy!

I didn't come across much before 2000AD. There was The Beano, and The Dandy, and a few Marvel UK titles with Avengers reprints and the like.

Hotspur rings a bell. But these were things I only ever saw one at a time, and fleetingly.

Other than than, I got about a dozen American comics in 1976, and they lasted me about 5 years, being read over and over again.

My first annual was the original Hulk, at the age of 4, then there was the Fantastic Four.

I remember wishing I was the human torch.
Having the hots for susan? The invisible woman.

My sisters got the same treatment but with Misty. The mystery book for girls.
 
Then Blue Jeans and Jackie?

after reading my comics
it was always worth a look at my sisters misty (that sounds a bit pervy) to see how scary girls comics where.remember a story about a girl who  caught butterflys  who eventualy gets caught by some alien and put in a jar.could have been a future shock?

"...the human torch.
Having the hots for susan? The invisible woman. "

Dude, that would be his sister.

Oh...This would happen seperately tho,do you see,;) H.ush

I remember the Jar one especially, Janus.

It was darker than the silly boy fight mags. Then again, I hadn't got to grips with action/battle until I started grazing the JUMBLE SALES.

I had the beano - remember giving Eagle a try for a bit. A trip to LA when I was eight also got me into Secret Wars - which only today I have bought the collected storyline from Forbidden Planet on Shaftsbury Avenue. Never been there before - its a big shop.

"Oh...This would happen seperately tho,do you see

I thought that might be the case. Just testing !

So it was *you* wishing you were the Human Torch, and *you* having the hots for Susan; and not Johnny having the hots for Susan at all. Glad we got that cleared up !

:-)

i read some comics. but nothing of note. or anything i bothered to get regulary.

2000ad  was my first real comic i took seriously  i really was completely taken by the thrill power.
it introduced me to other comics.
starlord, tornado, crisis, then onwards and outwards from there.

I'm lucky enough to have stumbled across a great shop where in their back room they have literally thousands of back issues of Lion,Vulcan,Valiant,Battle,Bullet et al...they're practically giving em away too so every time I mosy into town I always buy a fivers worth..picked up 20 odd copies of 1976 Action last saturday starting out at 20p for the tatty ones to 50p for the good uns..the early Victors are next on my list

TPS, that sounds like the greatest shop in the universe.

Some little comic shop waaaay out of my way had got hold of a stack of about forty 1970-71 Lions in a collection they'd bought, along with one Wizard, and let me have the lot for $5.  I was reading those for weeks!

Myself, I was a Marvel zombie before I found Eagle's Judge Dredd.  I dropped X-Men like a bad habit immediately.

--Grant

The Empire comic book shop on mancheater is full of old Valients, Actions and more.
I tend to hang about too long in looking at covers and need to stick to a budget,so a mere glimpse,tells me there may be loadss of old mags of the type above.

DxB , maybe you know of the place i talk of. Its on the station approach road. Heading away from the Piccadilly station.

He could tell you.

Yeah it is..its not even a comic shop..just antiques and toys mainly..Talking to the bloke that owns it he picked up nearly all the comics in one go off an old lady who was moving into sheltered accom..a real aladdins cave of comicry

My comic history goes something like this

Pippin
Dandy
Wow
Whoopee & Wow
2000ad
Buster
Eagle
School Fun
Scream
Crisis
Revolver
The Megazine

Jeez, where do I start??

Thunder
Valiant
Lion
Vulcan
Tiger
Beano (when they had adventure strips in it too)
Whoopie
Shiver & Shake
Warlord
Action
Most of the Marvel Uk stuff

Erm, I think that's it!

Alan!

Talking to the bloke that owns it he picked up nearly all the comics in one go off an old lady

have you no shame,
trading on the misery of others. some middle aged male somewhere will return to his mothers house, only to find the lovely new home his sister got there mother is no longer storing his collection his pride and joy.

just imagine it could be YOU NEXT TIME.

does that shop have an email address? :~)

Hrm... Lemme think...

Beano
Dandy
Buster
Beezer
Topper
Whizzer & Chips
Whoopee & Wow
Scream
Eagle (the new one)
Occasional Commando books
Spider-Man
Batman
Superman
The Incredible Hulk
X-Men
Star Wars
Transformers
Zoids
Look-In

...amongst others. My great-auntie used to bring me 7 or 8 comics every Sunday when she came to visit. She basically taught me to read by the time I was about 3. Very cool old lady...

The same year 2000ad was getting out of fanzine level there was a book called Space wars;worlds and weapons by Steven Eisler.

i can get it on amazon but dont and cant have an account with Amazon.

I wonder if any-one has access to any of the prints and pictures,so I can see if it is worth re-adding to my collection?

2000AD was never a fanzine.

I bet the writers didnt think that.
Fleetway sponsored it didthey from the beginning?

Tsk! Young sir needs to read up on his 2000ad history, methinks. ;)

on my way to the vaults as we speak.

Gentlemen.

Nevermind 'bout thet,
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Nevermind about thet

Warlord cover circa'79 ;
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Tagline;how to turn a cringing coward into a....

Panzer Hero!

Panzer Hero!

I used to get Look-In, The Beano & Whizzer & Chips before I started reading tooth.

not one mention for
monster fun
krazy or cheeky yet.

my younger brother used to get one with a strip in called 'Faceache'..I seem to remember the art being superior to the rest of the comic..as for the boy himself he was a hideous scruff haired pot bellied proto-chav..but could he pull some fizzogs

faceache was in buster

Faceache was genius!

[SKRUNGE!]

:)

I've got my copy in front of me: it's basically an excuse to print loads of sci-fi book covers from the '70's with text rambling across various future scenarios and descriptions from the novels. Most of them as I remember were from Panther paperbacks and the art was by such then luminaries as Chris Foss, Peter Elson, Boris Vallejo, Angus Mackie and many others.
As I remember there was a bit of a craze for reprinting these covers in these collections, with my favourite being a book called "A tour round the Universe". Really, for sci-fi book cover completists only. If you've got the Lensman books and the Foundation books then you've got about half the collection already.

Heh, heh, heh.

Separated at birth!



Faceache




Anne Widdecombe

It's funny because it's true...
:-)