Morris Heggie

The Best Of The Victor’ aims to bring you the best of the old British weekly comic ‘The Victor’ and it succeeds pretty well. Alf Tupper, ‘The Tough of the Track’, is here, running tireless miles powered only by bubble and squeak. For non-British readers I should explain that this is leftover cabbage and potato mixed together and fried. ‘Braddock V.C.’ is fighting the Hun and Tarzan look-alike ‘Morgyn The Mighty’ does his jungle thing while ‘Gorgeous Gus’ plays football. World War II and football were the principal interests of any decent, hearty young boy in 60s Britain.
These chaps figure on the cover so clearly, they are the main men. Women did not feature in boys comics in the good old days. Probably this would result in a referral to the Equalities Commission or the Minister for Women and Equalities nowadays followed by a trial and prosecutions all round. Things were simpler then and the girls had their own comics like ‘Bunty’ and so forth. I read a girls strip once called ‘No Tears For Molly’ about a poor servant girl but couldn‘t see the point of it. I expect girls felt the same way about ‘Braddock V.C.’ go tohttps://www.sfcrowsnest.info/the-best-of-the-victor-the-top-boys-paper-for-war-sport-and-adventure-by-andy-mcnab-and-morris-heggie-book-review/ for full review… (més)