Its Magical
By ARM
@responsiveme (22926)
India
October 29, 2017 10:28am CST
Ought to be, as they are stories about Mandrake the Magician. Loved reading these comics together with Phantom, Flash Gordon, Modesty Blaise and other news paper comic strips when we were kids.
The whole comics were not readily available and anyway too expensive for us.Most of us would cut out the strips and paste it in scrap books. I remember the frantic search to fill up the gaps if there was one in our homemade editions.
With the world becoming a global village as far as shopping is concerned , my hubby recently purchased some of the bounded editions of these newspaper dailies. As I immerse myself in them allover again, I find that they are still magical.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Oct 17
Me too..Used to draw Betty and Veronica ,Flintstones and the rest all over my exercise books
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
29 Oct 17
Yes,I too remember those magical times.I think there was Tarzan,and the news papers had Dennis The Menace and Maggie and Jiggs(Bringing up father).
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Oct 17
Not read the last one...Will look it up thanks
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@andriaperry (117173)
• Anniston, Alabama
29 Oct 17
I remember as a child, In the kitchen while Mom cooked I had the comic and my dad had the sports page. I have no idea where any of the other siblings were.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Oct 17
Yes, I can imagine being transported to the land of the comic strips
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Nov 17
i know what you mean. i used to get all the ones with paper dolls inside like Katy Keene and Millie the model and those babies Sugar and Spike. since i grew up, i found some online that i wish i had kept and bought them. reading them now is wonderful. still magical
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Nov 17
Right , it is so nice to go back down memory lane
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Oct 17
Sometimes I would sew them together into a sort of folder and we would look at them that way.
Loved those comics also.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Oct 17
That was a good way too...Kids those days were inventive
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Nov 17
@responsiveme that is another one that now and then had paper dolls in them.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
30 Oct 17
I still read them.loved those Archie comics
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
1 Nov 17
That is one comic that I did not read but I did indulge when I was a youngster.
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
5 Nov 17
@responsiveme Thor, Archie. Superman.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
1 Nov 17
Good to know, lots of comic fans out here.What were the comics you liked?
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
6 Nov 17
@BelleStarr I liked those too...Always rooted for Betty
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@DaddyEvil (137763)
• United States
30 Oct 17
Hmmm... I recognize the names of some of those, ARM, but I've never heard of Mandrake the Magician or Modesty Blaise. (Uhm... are you sure you aren't just making those names up to confuse me?
) 
I've spoken to a few people here who were really into comics when they were growing up and some of them are still into those same comic book characters. (I usually look at them from the corner of my eyes, just to make sure they don't suddenly go 
stark raving mad and attempt to kill me or something! Yes, I may have said some of the things in this box just to tease you... or not... I am not sure how I would be able to tell when some of those people suddenly unhinge... I am fairly sure there wouldn't be any appreciable changes in their expressions
!)
)
I've spoken to a few people here who were really into comics when they were growing up and some of them are still into those same comic book characters. (I usually look at them from the corner of my eyes, just to make sure they don't suddenly go stark raving mad and attempt to kill me or something! Yes, I may have said some of the things in this box just to tease you... or not... I am not sure how I would be able to tell when some of those people suddenly unhinge... I am fairly sure there wouldn't be any appreciable changes in their expressions!)
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@DaddyEvil (137763)
• United States
30 Oct 17
@responsiveme I really never read comic books, ARM. I preferred reading books on different sciences and what scientists had discovered new in those disciplines. (Sometimes I didn't understand what they were talking about, but I kept trying until I did understand!)
I also like to read fiction and science fiction. (I will read almost anything. The only type of books I won't read are biographies and auto-biographies.)
I don't trust anyone to give a straight-forward account of their own life. Most of the time, the author of a biography is trying to make the person they are writing about seem larger than life and interesting. (We both know people are boring.) A person might say or do something interesting once in a while, but nobody is interesting all the time.
I will agree that I love to re-read books that were my favorites when I was young. I downloaded all of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan books not long ago and have been reading them again. I love them! 
I really never read comic books, ARM. I preferred reading books on different sciences and what scientists had discovered new in those disciplines. (Sometimes I didn't understand what they were talking about, but I kept trying until I did understand!)
I also like to read fiction and science fiction. (I will read almost anything. The only type of books I won't read are biographies and auto-biographies.)
I don't trust anyone to give a straight-forward account of their own life. Most of the time, the author of a biography is trying to make the person they are writing about seem larger than life and interesting. (We both know people are boring.) A person might say or do something interesting once in a while, but nobody is interesting all the time.
I will agree that I love to re-read books that were my favorites when I was young. I downloaded all of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan books not long ago and have been reading them again. I love them! 1 person likes this
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
30 Oct 17
They are very much there...The characters and it is fun to get back to reading those books even now.
What comic characters do you like?
Yes, comic lovers are really serious about their beloved comics
and it is fun to get back to reading those books even now.
What comic characters do you like?
Yes, comic lovers are really serious about their beloved comics1 person likes this
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Oct 17
@DaddyEvil our shelves have those Tarzan books too .Am keeping them for a rainy day.
An autobiography that I recently enjoyed was pigeon tunnel ...Le carte
Science fiction is something I don't go in for much..Though have read some short stories
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
1 Nov 17
@responsiveme My son, who lives in New York City, stores all his comics here. Hope he moves and clears them out. Lol!
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
1 Nov 17
That's good to know...Our house is crammed with books and comics
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
5 Nov 17
Ok, glad to suggest.i prefer reading though and didn't know they made animated series on him
@Chantiele (433)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
30 Oct 17
It is strange at how things change over the years. We don't even get a comic strip in our paper anymore.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
30 Oct 17
I'm glad you get to enjoy them again... what great gift from hubby... he obviously knows what you like... 
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Oct 17
Oh, yes it was a great purchase...We are both enjoying them
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
30 Oct 17
I have only ever read the Spiderman and the classic Indian "Chacha Chaudhary", both of which my cousin on mom's side was an ardent reader of.
Then I have also read some graphic novels which are like comics but without any sequel. For example Sita, Raavan, Krishna, Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Oct 17
Used to read Smart Chittagong Katha with all those stories too and have of course read a couple of Cha-cha Chaudhary
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
30 Oct 17
That's so cool to discover joy in something that you used to love
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