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   Judy Darley
   Administrator

   Most of us have a magazine or two that epitomises our teen years – I veered between More and Kerrang! Oh, the glamour of one vs the anti-glamour of the other, the hot uber-plucked hunks of More's central pages vs the straggly bearded manoliths (ooh, I think I've just coined a new word) of Kerrang!, the veneer of coolness, the, um, dubious sex tips, of both. *sigh*
   What magazines best represents your teen years?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Steve
   Member

   Wow, I loved Kerrang! Have since moved onto Classic Rock, but I'll always have a soft spot for Kerrang! (though the exclamation mark in the mag name is really annoying. No title should ever have punctuation like that!)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   graham
   Member

   I grew up reading some fab comics - think they were called Whizzer and Chips. Actually, looking back it was a bit of marketing genius. Whizzer was the main comic, with Chips squished inside and branded as a rival. What a way to see off the concept of competition! By creating a psuedo competitor that shares your cover price! They even tried to drive up rivalries among their readers by asking them whether they were Whizz-Kids or Chip-Ites. I think I was a Chip-Ite. The best bit about it was when characters from one comic invaded the strips of another and instigated a full-on fracas! Anyone else remember these comics?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   kezsmum
   Member

   Being something of an old woman my magazines and comics were Beano, Dandy, Bunty, Valentine and later the various women's magazines when they still had a selection of short stories and none of this 'reality' stuff that I find so very dreary.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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