Also loved The Furry Freak Brothers and later on Viz
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Ahe - the Broon Family in the Sunday Post?
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That’s the one…
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My Favourites were Beryl the Peril and Minnie the Minnie the Minx 
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I love comics and still read 2000ad sometimes.
When we were kids I was a real tomboy and shared my brothers Beezer and Victor etc
I remember liking Billy Bunter and all those war heroes. The stories were quite grim, I was freaked out once by the heroes being staked out to be eaten by ants!
I got Bunty as well and liked all those stories about girls who were very good at a sport but were in difficult circumstances and had tough times but made good in the end. I don’t know why, I was rubbish at sport, wishful thinking I suppose
There was one story in particular that I loved. It was about a young girl living in an imaginary Far Eastern country. When her mother died, her father, the Sultan, turned mean. The countries national sport was table tennis and he sent her to a military and bullying table tennis school to become a champion!
Of course she overcame heroically and became a champion in the end 
How I wanted to be that girl ……
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My aunt was expecting. My cousin, about ten at the time, was going to call the baby Dennis or Beryl from the comic book characters. Beryl it was.
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I was never really into comic books. I was into magazines like MAD and Heavy Metal. 
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Oooh, yes, I’d forgotten the free gifts and rushing to the paper shop to get one before they sold out. And, oh the disappointment if they had 
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Maree, My brother used to get the Hotspur or was it called the New Hotspur?
Anyway, l remember one of the free gifts with one edition was something made of paper and/or cardboard. When it was folded in a special way and you sort of shook it hard, it made a loud bang.
I’m sure, someone on here will remember it and know what l mean?
Having spent the first few years of my working life in the building trade, I was surrounded by people for whom the literacy level of the Sun was all they could manage, so I got to read Hagar the Horrible. And a pub I used regularly always had an old copy of the Daily Mail hanging around, so that offered Fred Bassett & somewhere or other had the Mirror & that had Andy Capp.
I also seem to remember a newspaper cartoon, possibly in an evening paper, so possibly in Norwich or Peterborough, that featured a parrot, possibly called Jasper?
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Oh yes, I remember that well. Not sure if mine was from the Hotspur or another comic, but it was a double triangle of cardboard with a double triangle of brown paper inside it.
When you whooshed it through the air, the paper popped out and made a loud bang. We played with ours so much the brown paper broke eventually! Trying to find a picture ……
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Yes, That was it. Were they called ‘clackers’, or were they the wooden things people used to swish round at football matches?
Maybe, they were ‘rattles’?
I found one that was free in the Dandy, I can’t remember which comic ours was in but it was just like this.
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I nearly forgot Ogri 
Ogri is a very long standing character in a motorcycle magazine. Bike.
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Must be something wrong with my eyes or my brain, because that is not how I read his name at first…
I’ll let you figure it out for yourself 
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I used to swap and change comics depending on who was giving the free gifts. 
Did like the superhero comics as I got older, DC & Marvel. You could probably tell from my avatar.
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Maree, Yes, that is one.
My brother and me had such fun with ours, we used to sneak up on people and bang it. When it broke we tried to fix it with sellotape but it didn’t work
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I remember Walter - was that Bash street?
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The Eagle and children’,s newspaper.
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