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Comic Books

QVCkitty1 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 19:53:10 GMT

The recent post about cartoons got me thinking about comic books. I was such a fan Archie, Katie Keene, Heckle and Jeckle, so many I can't think of all of them. When I got older, I switched to Mad magazine. I've always loved to laugh. Were any of you comic book fans ?

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SloopJohnB — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:24:42 GMT

@QVCkitty1 I also loved the Archie series of comic books. We had a subscription to Mad Magazine. Looking back, they were ahead of the times with their satire. Loved Alfred E. Neuman!

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catter70 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:26:29 GMT

Yes, big fan of Archie, too. There was another that I don't remember the name of that was almost like romance stories done in comic book style.

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CelticCrafter — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:28:21 GMT

For some reason we were not allowed to buy or read comic books when we were kids. Not even if we used our own money to buy them.

We could read the comic strips in the Sunday paper though.

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Porcelain — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:28:34 GMT

I liked the New Mutants in the 90s. I briefly enjoyed the Sandman graphic novels and a few romantic mangas once upon a time as well.

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Sushismom — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:34:13 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
For some reason we were not allowed to buy or read comic books when we were kids. Not even if we used our own money to buy them.

We could read the comic strips in the Sunday paper though.

I, too, wasn't able to buy comics. I could read them, though. Never made sense to me.

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gidgetgh — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:34:45 GMT

I loved the Archie comic books but my favorites were Millie the Model.

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Porcelain — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:40:52 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
For some reason we were not allowed to buy or read comic books when we were kids. Not even if we used our own money to buy them.

We could read the comic strips in the Sunday paper though.

Not making assumptions about your age! But I read all about the problems with comic books in the 50s and I think early 60s. In that period, many of them (Archie and Lil Abner etc, not included obviously) were extremely ghoulish and full of explicit adult violence and torture. Like horror movies are today. It's possible your parents heard about how truly awful many comic books were in the 50s, even if comics had changed by then, and based their decision on that.

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luvzchiz — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:53:27 GMT

I, too, loved the Archie comics, Leave It to Beaver, and Mad Magazine once got older. There were others, but these are the ones that come to mind.

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QVCkitty1 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:13:42 GMT

@Sushismom wrote:
@CelticCrafter wrote:
For some reason we were not allowed to buy or read comic books when we were kids. Not even if we used our own money to buy them.

We could read the comic strips in the Sunday paper though.
I, too, wasn't able to buy comics. I could read them, though. Never made sense to me.

@Sushismom I was a reader, everything. My parents only censored one thing, and that was the romance magazines, with the lurid covers. Of course I snuck them at the news stand .

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Porcelain — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:23:37 GMT

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Enufstuff — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:07:02 GMT

My favorite comic books from the 50's were Archie, Betty & Veronica, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Blondie & Dagwood, Dennis the Menace and Katie Keene. What was fun with Katie Keene comics was the page where you could draw and design your own

Katie Keene fashions. Another one was Casper the Friendly Ghost.

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SoCal Bred — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:43:01 GMT

Archie and Dennis the Menace were my favorites.......my older brother was into Mad magazine with Alfred E. Neuman. He was also into the 'scary' movie magazines with black and white photos of Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula, creature from the Black Lagoon, etc., he would enjoy sneaking up on my sister and I and flashing the picture in front of our eyes making us scream, brothers!

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World Traveler — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:32:21 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:
My favorite comic books from the 50's were Archie, Betty & Veronica, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Blondie & Dagwood, Dennis the Menace and Katie Keene. What was fun with Katie Keene comics was the page where you could draw and design your own
Katie Keene fashions. Another one was Casper the Friendly Ghost.

@Enufstuff LOVED Little Lulu.

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MaverDaver — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:43:40 GMT

as a little girl (perhaps 8-10) I can remember going into our neighborhood deli. The comic books were in the back of the store. I would sit on the floor and read my favorites until I was up to date on the new arrivals. I would be in there for up to an hour if not longer. The owner was a mean man but for some reason he never chased me out of the store. Maybe he wasn't mean after all.

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GenXmuse — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:48:57 GMT

I liked Archie and Richie Rich. I also read Mad and Cracked magazine.
The comic book digests were the best!

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bobby5 — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 01:20:08 GMT

Archie was the best! I'd read them over & over again. I always wanted Archie to like Betty instead of Veronica😄

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Kalli — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:35:28 GMT

I liked Archie, Veronica and Betty, too, but once my brother started reading Mad, I was over those. Loved Spy vs Spy, Roger Kaputnik and the fold out page.

When my son was in 6th-9th grades I had a difficult time getting him to read. He only wanted to read Nintendo game guides (hints for solving the games) and comic books. It was such a source of frustration for me that I finally gave up and accepted it. Along the way I found out his choice of independent reading was still enriching him. Fast foward to now, he's read more classics than I have and also reads quite a bit of nonfiction.

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Cakers3 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:49:21 GMT

There was a "Comic Code" established in 1954 which outlined what could and could not be printed in comic books.

While most ignored the code, it remained through the beginning of the 21st century

If people think comics are not violent today, think again.

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Cakers3 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:53:08 GMT

I read Archie because my sisters bought them. Once they outgrew them, so did I.

I remember buying Little Lulu and Nancy each time a new edition came out.

I never had a subscription to any comic books. I didn't even know comic books had subscriptions!!