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WHIZZER & CHIPS was the last new IPC comic weekly that I bought while still a primary school pupil. I was at secondary school when THUNDER, JET, and KNOCKOUT went on sale, and I was still in the house I'd lived in since 1965. The year after Knockout came out, I was in yet another house (the very one in which I reside today), and then there was SHIVER & SHAKE, WHOOPEE, MONSTER FUN, 2000 A.D., WOW! , etc., but that's a tale for another time. There were other comics by other publishers, but these IPC ones mark my transition from child to teenager, and reflect a certain time and place in my life that I often revisit in the evergreen land of memory.
What comics do you Crivs associate with the time between your primary and secondary school days? Reveal (and relive) every last fascinating detail in our scintillating comments section.
Talking of Knockout, in June or July of 1971, my family holidayed in Largs, and I have fond memories of reading a couple of issues in the famous seaside resort. Our landlady had a copy of VICTOR HUGO's The HUNCHBACK Of NOTRE DAME in her bookcase, and I remember reading the last page and finding it quite sad. I wasn't to return to Largs until 2014 - 43 years later - and I was thrilled and disappointed in equal measure. Thrilled at seeing familiar sights that reminded me of yesteryear, and disappointed at the many changes that had taken place. I'll talk about this again in an upcoming post, o wallowers in sentiment and nostalgia.
