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Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum  (E) This is the forum where blog prompts will be posted for the Blogging Circle of Friends. #1901904 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

1969 – The last issue of the “Saturday Evening Post” was published. It was revived in 1971 as a quarterly publication and eventually six times a year.

What was your favorite publication as a child/teen. Newspaper comics, perhaps, or a magazine, etc? Does it still exist? What was the draw for you?

When I was a very small child in the UK, it was wartime. Money was scarce and there was certainly none to spare for comics. But after the war perhaps around 1950 my brothers and I were allowed to have comics each week. These would be delivered to our house with the newspaper.
There were two which I remember so well, The Dandy and The Beano. I can remember all the characters in the comics, two I especially remember; Desperate Dan and Dennis the menace.
Sometimes there’d be a free gift included to be fought over. At Christmas time these comic books were published as an annual, a hardback book which would get read over and over, many times during the year.
I don’t think they are being published any more, and probably wouldn’t appeal to today’s generation of children, they’d be too tame.