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How do we know we're getting old ?

So as no to clog up Chris's mekon build the Eagle comic wasn't top of my Saturday choice I was more of a Lion man(boy)myself with Pady Payne and robot archie and if dad chipped in Victor with the stories of Victoria Cross recipients in colour on the front and back cover ,and Alfred Tupper aka tough of the track I think he was a plumber and this will date some of us he used the public wash baths on the way home to freshen up ,if this is still in your memory banks welcome to the codgers club. Dave
 
David Lovell said:
So as no to clog up Chris's mekon build the Eagle comic wasn't top of my Saturday choice I was more of a Lion man(boy)myself with Pady Payne and robot archie and if dad chipped in Victor with the stories of Victoria Cross recipients in colour on the front and back cover ,and Alfred Tupper aka tough of the track I think he was a plumber and this will date some of us he used the public wash baths on the way home to freshen up ,if this is still in your memory banks welcome to the codgers club. Dave
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Alf was a scrap dealer………public baths would have been a bit posh for him, he probably used a roadside horse trough on the way home ;)

I remember one set of stories where he was dismantling a steel channel fort for scrap…..for some reason Wilson (of the Wizzard) was also in the stories? It may well have been from around 1970 when they merged the wizzard and the Victor….loved the Wizzard, used to look out old copies at jumble sales as well. It was just written stories, not illustrated.
 
WELL loved the valiant with that big robot ape mytek the mighty an captain hurricane as well as the eagle an TV 21 Centry comic as i used to swop with my mates those were the days eh an ive still got one TV 21 centry COMIC in my time capsule upstairs
chrisb
 
boatman said:
WELL loved the valiant with that big robot ape mytek the mighty an captain hurricane as well as the eagle an TV 21 Centry comic as i used to swop with my mates those were the days eh an ive still got one TV 21 centry COMIC in my time capsule upstairs
chrisb
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I've still got a mid-sixties copy of The Eagle buried under one of my model stashes.
Pete
 
stillp said:
I've still got a mid-sixties copy of The Eagle buried under one of my model stashes.
Pete
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WELL Pete you want to dig it out an put it in a poly clear bag as some of these eagle comics are worth a fortune wish i had one
chrisb
 
boatman said:
WELL Pete you want to dig it out an put it in a poly clear bag as some of these eagle comics are worth a fortune wish i had one
chrisb
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It was valued around £60, but that was 20-odd years ago. It's in an acid-free archive envelope.
Pete
 
Kept ALL my comics from when I was a young'un.....pull 'em out and read some of the old Favs. once in a "Blue Moon" just for laffs! ;)
 
Tim Marlow said:
Yep, the wonder athlete…..go on….have some nostalgia….
http://theamazingwilson.com/Wilson Stories from the Wizard/index.html
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You probably know the story of the author of the Wilson stories wanting a pay rise?
The editor refused him a rise, saying he could easily be replaced, so the author gave a week's notice, which the editor accepted provided he got another week's story to give him time to find the replacement. So the author wrote a tale which ended with Wilson chained inside a locked box at the bottom of a shark-filled lake.
The replacement writer struggled for a sleepless week wondering how to get Wilson out of this jam, and eventually went to the editor and resigned saying he couldn't continue, Wilson would have to die as he couldn't think of a way to write an escape story.
The editor knew that Wilson couldn't die as that would end the series and leave a lot of disappointed readers, so he contacted the original author and offered him a pay rise plus a generous bonus if he'd come back to work. So he returned to the office, and with a flourish wrote "With one bound, Wilson was free"!

Pete
 
stillp said:
You probably know the story of the author of the Wilson stories wanting a pay rise?
The editor refused him a rise, saying he could easily be replaced, so the author gave a week's notice, which the editor accepted provided he got another week's story to give him time to find the replacement. So the author wrote a tale which ended with Wilson chained inside a locked box at the bottom of a shark-filled lake.
The replacement writer struggled for a sleepless week wondering how to get Wilson out of this jam, and eventually went to the editor and resigned saying he couldn't continue, Wilson would have to die as he couldn't think of a way to write an escape story.
The editor knew that Wilson couldn't die as that would end the series and leave a lot of disappointed readers, so he contacted the original author and offered him a pay rise plus a generous bonus if he'd come back to work. So he returned to the office, and with a flourish wrote "With one bound, Wilson was free"!

Pete
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No, not heard that before, but I absolutely love it! I remember the story where some crooks froze him in a block of ice and he melted his way out from the inside by using Eastern mental concentration…..I suppose in some ways he was the original Kung Fu….

Got it wrong above, by the way…Alf Tupper was a welder. Bernard Briggs (the goalie) was the scrap merchant…..and the story on the fort was Briggs and Tupper…..not Wilson….sorry.
 
I'm getting worried!!! In my 70's still playing on my PS5. (Nothing like a good kill streak to get rid of the frustrations of life). Even been known to play that thump thump music from my car. SWIMBO keep telling me to grow up. Never knew it was compulsory!!!
I feel when age finally catches me it'll be with one hell of a thump!!!!
 
Waspie said:
I'm getting worried!!! In my 70's still playing on my PS5. (Nothing like a good kill streak to get rid of the frustrations of life). Even been known to play that thump thump music from my car. SWIMBO keep telling me to grow up. Never knew it was compulsory!!!
I feel when age finally catches me it'll be with one hell of a thump!!!!
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I'm still using mine, it's great stress relief
 
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