I have already catalogue all of my UK weekly comics covering the 1950s -2000s and to prove a point a great number are D C Thomson titles -including the 2000s rather lack lustre editions. This should not be too surprising since Thomson and AP/Fleetway/IPC were the UKs "Big Two".
The images of the comics I showed in yesterday's post total over 200. Looking at the old list I must have a couple thousand UK weeklies including the "new" Eagle, 2000 AD and Battle/Battle Action Force. I am not including the Marvel weeklies here. I do have a full set of the Avengers Weekly which is over140 issues alone.
I think I am missing one issue of Warrior monthly.
What is noticeable, because I DO read all of these comics, is how the "new editorships" from the late 1970s seem to have let the rot in. Quality of comics and contents decline -2000 AD was a title (unbelievably) that Fleetway could not wait to get rid of because sales had slumped to an all-time low.
Well, "you get the comics you deserve" is how one Fleetway manager once put it to me. True.
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