Old war comics- pure nostalgia

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

See the Blitzkrieg Commander forum.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Who else remembers this ... and wished it was real when younger?

Absolutely. But I could never understand how he could control all those little soldiers from just that small panel on his arm.

[Nirnman]

Likewise

[Techno]

General Jumbo looks like a forerunner of 'Q-Bikes (?)'.....Gotta  be the same artist.

A certain age ?.....Yep !.....Just depends on which childhood.
I guess I'm on my fourth (At least !)

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

Do you get the feeling that we on this forum are all of "a certain age" ?  Be good sometime to get a profile of the war gaming demographic.

We did this a couple of months back - 70% are in the 41-60 bracket so would have grown up with those comics.  I certainly did- still have a Victor annual or two in the loft/


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31-40                14 (16.5%)
41-50                31 (36.5%)
51-60                29 (34.1%)
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Total Voters: 83

[Leman]

I did have a good laugh, even in those days, at the non-PC speech bubbles with their constant references to sausage eaters, Fritz, Huns, square heads and yellow fiends. Did anyone notice that shot Germans always went 'Arrrrgh!' whereas shot Japanese went out with an 'Aieee!'. There were also a few set in WWI in which the Germans often came across as more imbued with human feeling than their WWII counterparts presumably because WWI had nothing to do with the Nazis.