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Whizzer and Chips was my favourite comic, but which side were you on?

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[–] Emperor 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Crikey! Shots fired!! I wasn't expecting this community to get into controversial topics so quickly!

[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember an annual my dad had from the early 70s that was at least 4x more pages.

[–] Finnbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’d spend literal hours staring at those double page spreads. Loved it.

[–] UKFilmNerd 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing this post makes me so happy. I used to get the conic every Saturday and the annual every Christmas for around a decade starting roughly in 83.

I used to ask my school friends the same question but I never met anyone who read the comic.

Just a few months ago, I went to my parents to dig some of my gear out of the loft expecting it to be damaged. It turns out what I was looking for was in a cupboard in perfect condition along with all my Whizzer & Chips annuals! So happy to see them again.

Oh, I was a Whizz kid as well. 😊

[–] chris@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I had a massive box of them, my sister started getting it (I think somebody bought one for her when she was ill) and later on I was getting it myself along with most of the monthlies. I only appear to have two annuals, I don't think I got rid of any, but I know my big box of comics and monthlies went to a distant relative - they had been sealed up since moving in 1992, I had progressed by then to Your Sinclair 😊.

[–] tomorrow_famous 3 points 1 year ago

Chip-ite all the way!