Comics of my youth

We all read comics, sharing between each other sometimes from the school comic collection for rainy break times.

We read these comics whenever it rained in our junior school and we were unable to play as they were kept in a big cardboard box and shared at break time.
Roy of the Rovers was a boyhood hero.

The Beano was massive and we loved to see Soppy Walter battling it out with Dennis The Menace although Dennis's dad would spank him as we all were.

The Dandy was pretty big too and I just loved Winker Watson and his wanglers, Corporal Clogg and Brassneck and Korky the Cat.

Football was mega and still is and back then this was what we all raved about as boys in the playground pack I was a member of. 

Here's another long gone we read:

War, football and boxing stories were just what us boys wanted and how!

That one's now gone the missed Whizzer and Chips in a late 1970's edition.

There was however a big issue in this era and it was around boys who liked girls things and I did so want to read openly girls comics because they provided what a feminine gurl like me also loved.

You may of got away reading them in private if you had a sister or knew a girl who wouldn't let on did to your class not least other boys cos physical abuse and bullying was common then.

As you can see while I loved to read boy comics a half of me was missing following all my interests meeting my own needs and that's a crying shame.