I was particularly fond of a very twee series called the Chalet School, about 30 books in the Mallory Towers vein. They were written from 1930s onward and set in a girl’s boarding school in Switzerland. Midnight feasts and avalanches etc. Good clean fun, but probably haven’t aged well either.
Yeah, my sister was crazy about those. I had utterly forgotten about them. Haven’t heard about them in probably a couple of decades.
Guid Blyton - millions of books, all of them guaranteed* to not duplicate any other book in content.
- There’s a small probability that you will get a duplicate, but the universe will probably fall to heat death before it happens.
The book importers / wholesalers here have historically had connections with UK rather than US publishers – not to say we don’t / didn’t get US books (although via UK suppliers) – but UK-centric publications would have been more common here at least when I was growing up. (e.g. we got UK comics: Whizzer and Chips, 2000 AD, etc, whereas consecutive issues of US comics could seldom be found and many were Australian published reprints).
A Biggles movie you say… no, no such thing… la la la I can’t hear you. 
(Wretched movie).
I’d say that’s it… I mean, I had a whole heap of Eagle annuals and War Picture Library comics when I was growing up in the late 80’s and '90s, but I never saw the regular “Superman”-type comics on sale anywhere then. Oddly enough, you could get the Disney ones fairly easily though, especially the Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge ones, IIRC.
I quite enjoyed it when I was a kid, but yeah, I think it’s well past time that someone coughSirPeterJacksoncough did a “Proper” Biggles movie, complete with that Boy’s Own Adventure sort of stuff that you don’t see anymore.
It’s like you lived my life.
Was Chips ever sold separately to Whizzer? Or was it just a marketing ploy to make you feel like you were getting two comics for the price of one? I remember it was all bound up and stapled together as a single comic, even though it was sold as two separate titles.
I seem to remember there was a certain rivalry between the Whizzer characters and the Chips characters.
I had a joke (What do you get if you feed a cow money? Rich milk.) AND a computer game review (“Citadel” for the BBC Model B and Electron) printed in Eagle.
I believe this makes me awesome.
Before my time they were two separate comics, but when they merged they established the rivalry theme, unique to a comics merger. It then went on to merge with both Krazy, and then Whoopee, but the title only temporarily changed to reflect that. It finally invisibly merged into Buster which is defunct these past ten years or so. It is the end of an era.
I was always a Whizz-Kid, never a Chip-ite.
I submitted a drawing to 2000AD which got printed. I won an LRD (Liquid Refreshment Dispenser) which I have subsequently lost.
Much as though it pains me, I must admit that you are significantly more awesome than me.
Zarjaz!