How did you get your Marvel UK TF comics?

[grahamthomson]

How did you get your Marvel UK TF comics?

[blueshift]

Every Wednesday after school my mum would drive us to the Spar and pick up our comics and the Radio Times (my parents 'comic') and get 30p worth of sweets. Maybe a sticker pack for the latest panini album too

[Dave]

Delivered by the paper boy every Saturday. At least that was the theory. Most weeks a parent was dispatched to the shop to say "the Transformers comic wasn't in with our paper" and the shop would say "oh yes, here it is" and hand it over.

[Andy Turnbull]

Initially I had them reserved and then when we moved we got them delivered.

Andy

[The Doctor]

Sometimes the local newsagents would get them in on a Friday, sometimes it was Saturday. So on a Friday, while I was at school, a parental unit was dispatched to look for a copy. Joy would occur if I came home from school and found that week's issue on my bed. Otherwise, I would take a trip on Saturday morning to get one.

-Ralph

[primenova]

Had them ordered from #107 - 194 - so ending up not getting copy of 155, 194. then picked the issues up of the shelf every saturday. Then started coming out every friday, then thrusday. #319 came out on wednesday. #308 was late - back to sat for that issue.

[Hero]

I had mine (as well as Spiderman & Zoids and The Real Ghostbusters)kept for me at the local Newsagents). I'd get up at 6am as my mum got up early for work on Saturdays so I could rush down the newsagents and pick them up.

===KEN

[Deleted]

I only recently got hold of my comics off Ebay about two years ago. As a kid I only ever read Disney comics and so TF comics didn't feature among my reading material at the time.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

None of the above options.

I had it reserved at the newsagent for collection on Saturday mornings from about issue fifty-something, but not using the coupon. You could just ask them to do it, you know.

On two or three occasions, it failed to materialise at the newsagent in Bristol, and my uncle in London was duly deputised to track one down and post it to me.

Got all the early issues from mail order shops advertised in the TF comic's 'classified ads' page.

Martin

[The Doctor]

I was a regular reader from #42-281. The only issue I couldn't find anywhere was #59 which I did not get until around 20 years later on ebay! It was easy enough to get the comic from #1 though: I remember other kids at school having issues and Derek Park down the road had a copy of the fabled #1. Near the end the comic was much harder to find. I had a mate who still picked it up and I would glance at some of his issues. The last one he could get was #323 with the first part of 'Still Life'. I thought the comic had been cancelled then. No idea it made it to #332 or that there were specials through to late 1994 until a few years later.

-Ralph

[Dark Stranger]

Newsagent reservation along with Eagle right up to the very end.

[legios]

It was fairly straightforward for me (I am referring to my _first_ lot of the comic you understand, the issues I have as an adult were acquired mostly through haunting comic marts). I either picked it up on the way into school on a Friday from the Newsagent in Riverside (when I was at Primary School) or at the top of Causewayhead road (after nodding to William Wallace's Monument) when I had moved onto High School. If I didn't pick it up on a Friday then when I was in Stirling on a Saturday (the trip to the Library was a weekly ritual for me at that stage) I would pick it up, usually from John Menzies (what we used to have up here instead of W H Smith's). Or in the unlikely event that they had sold out I would get it from one of the other four newsagents in town.

Reserving it never really entered my thoughts, as it wasn't particularly difficult to find (the Collected Comics specials on the other hand, they were like Turbo Foxes - took some patient hunting).

Karl

[Andy Turnbull]

I used to visit pretty much every newsagent in Dunfermline to get the collected comics when the comic folded.

Andy

[Kingoji]

I never got them myself. My brother got every issue from 1 til the end delivered with the parent's newspaper, and I just read his.
In later life, I actually "stole" his collection when he went to Uni, but I gave them back when he finished... Now I have every reprint that Titan have released as collector's editions.

[Mark_Stevenson]

Subconsciously, I think I still look forward to Wednesdays because it was New Comic Day...

Mx

[Shockprowl]

I was a coupon man 'n'all. Couldn't take the risk of not being! Dear God!

[bertie]

No coupon here, but reserved for Sunday morning from the local newsagent.

[The Doctor]

I have a life-long allergic reaction to cutting things out of magazines, so I never used the coupon!

-Ralph

[KoshNaranek]

I didn't use the coupon either as I hated even the thought of cutting up my comics. They were always delivered late on a Thursday evening to my local newsagent. If my Mum was at bingo, she would collect it for me and leave it on the living room table for me to discover in the morning before school.

- Tony

[Deleted]

Through the internet my first purchase was a near complete Target 2006; followed by a few more issues. Then, Titan UK allowed a quick read of entire story lines.

I would really like to collect the complete Transformers UK and bind the lot in leather, adding a book cover saying Transformers Omnibus. One can only dream.