War comics

[poster342002]

My guess is that the heyday of their popularity was probably when you still had a whole generation of kids with parents/granparents who'd faught in WW2 and had loads of stories to tell about it. As that demographic phased out, so the popularity of such comics began to wane.

 

[Belushi]

I'm quite interested in knowing when they stopped being read, if indeed they have. I would have been reading them in, I suppose, the mid-Seventies: were younger posters reading them after that?

Yeah, I was reading them in the early 80's, Battle and Victor and one called Buddy I think.

My Uncle Tyrone used to give me the little Commando ones, when I was a bit older he got me into Sven Hassell books

 

[Belushi]

I shudder to think how politicaly incorrect they would be these days, I do actualy remember one set of stories about a German penal battalion on the Eastern Front.

I remember that, twas in Victor I believe.

What was the one where the young driver was always saving his cowardly commander who'd then take all the credit?

 

[poster342002]

What was the one where the young driver was always saving his cowardly commander who'd then take all the credit?

Soudns like any office-based workplace in the UK today.

 

[subversplat]

It always makes me wonder what people have gone and searched for to resurrect these year-old threads....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

In this instance, the subject came up again, so I linked to the old thread, on which somebody then posted.

 

[robotsimon]

I remember having a few of these comics in the early 80s. I don't know where they came from - a jumble sale probably - but they made a change to the Beano which was my weekly read.

The only character I can remember was Union Jack Jackson - a British commando serving with the US marines. He had a Union flag on his helmet and seemed to be a far better soldier than the yanks. All the Japanese died with a cry of "Aieeeeee".

 

[Belushi]

The only character I can remember was Union Jack Jackson - a British commando serving with the US marines. He had a Union flag on his helmet and seemed to be a far better soldier than the yanks. All the Japanese died with a cry of "Aieeeeee".

'Banzai!'

 

[Dhimmi]

has the content changed in any way in the modern ones?

Not that I've noticed. Have a suspicion that many are reprints.

Along with growing up surrounded by veterans of WWII, these comics were what got me into reading about history. It's odd to think how many younger Brits don't know any of it, even something as recent as WWII.

The Germans have only been taught how dreadful they were, but I've met a lot of younger Russians who are proud of their ancestors efforts, and who are quite surprised when they realise you've heard of their history.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

My guess is that the heyday of their popularity was probably when you still had a whole generation of kids with parents/granparents who'd faught in WW2 and had loads of stories to tell about it. As that demographic phased out, so the popularity of such comics began to wane.

Heh. I'm 39. One of my grandads fought in WWI. Admittedly we're a late-spawning family, but still..

 

[JTG]

Dundee is not in Fife, it is in Tayside. You have just offended Dundonians and Fifers in the one line.

I thought Tayside was one of those ghastly made up counties and that Dundee is properly in Angus

 

[JTG]

Heh. I'm 39. One of my grandads fought in WWI. Admittedly we're a late-spawning family, but still..

I'm 29 and two of my great uncles died on the Somme...

 

[Kaka Tim]

All the Japanese died with a cry of "Aieeeeee".

Whilst the germans had a choice of 'gott in himmel' or 'Donner und blitzen'.

The brits - IIRC - usually died with a few quiet and noble words.

 

[gsv]

What was the one where the young driver was always saving his cowardly commander who'd then take all the credit?

Captain Cadman?

I readVictor at the end of the 70s / start of the 80s, then when it was rolled up they pointed all the readers over to Spike. I was intermittently reading that as late as 84 or 85.

As well as Commando &c, there was a sci-fi little book. Anyone remember what it was called?


GS(v)