Can't say I ever heard of Oink, but a couple of nice memorabilia.

I remember those too in the 80s, I was not as crazy about them, but we did read Buster, Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee between 1983 and 1988 when I outgrew them. They were very cheap like 60 - 90 cents each and Mum had a weekly order with the bookshop, I remember she would bring them home and we had to do chores and other stuff before they were handed over. We would swap them at a book exchange and I remember they were 3 months old and never had free gifts when they arrived here (I later found out they were unsolds from the UK, bought over on caravels and galleons judging by the delays).

They were printed on the cheapest newsprint paper and never lasted, hence why I have none but my Disney comics survive.

I read a couple of Beanos, but found them rougher and cheaper looking, my Mum did not approve of the "language" in them as she wanted us speaking proper English and I guess Buster passed screening. The worst was a comic called "Oink!" that came out in 1986 when I was 10, and it was a childrens version of Viz and featured stories based around grossness and porcine rights. I got obsessed and drew the Oink outline everywhere with a pig silhouette saying OINK. After I spraypainted over the school walls and fell into convulsive laughter over a record they gave away (One of the free gifts that made it) which was a silly song with the chorus "Poo poo tinkle tinkle parp parp oink" - needless to say I had friends buying it and got some. The pictures show some of the free gifts and sampl page from this epic. It lasted 2 years and sent up celebrities and making them into pigs like Hamantha Fox and George Hamichael - you get the picture it was the mid 80s.

i LIKE those proof coins very much
an american friend of mine was a coindealer he says he re-submitted many coins and often got a better grade on the 2nd or 3rd try
Personally I cannot see a visual difference between ms66 and up to ms70 

When I was a kid back in the UK, I used to love reading Beano & Dandy comics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnxdcEWcRg

I hope they were mint and kept in a good album, many 70s albums were printed on acidopherous paper that toned.

Next hobby is a new one - 3. Comic Collecting, but not superheroes or Violence, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge ones basically. I grew up reading these comics and always loved the Duck ones and some Mickey Mouse too (His comics were nothing like the cute mascot of Disney, 1930s - 50s Mickey Mouse was a tough little runt and always catching bad guys etc).

Again we run the gamut of pricing, any Gold Key, Whitman (1970s,80s) are cheap, Gladstone and Disneys (1986 - 1995) cost more as they were done by collectors and adults and are more academic than the kiddie fun of earlier comics. Here in Australia we had WG/Wogan Comics from 1950 or so to 1978 and they were reprints of American material and are the easiest to find, but often in poor condition. The ones from the 1970s are very common, 1950s less so. The superstars though are original Dell comics from the USA starting in the 1930s and I was lucky to buy 4 Walt Disney's comics and stories from 1950 - 52, photo 3 is my oldest from March 1950 when comics cost just a dime, it cost me $70 but is in great condition.

Natually Uncle Scrooge was my entry into coins too, as we all know how much he loves money, making money, being stingy and playing with his money (I do not recommend diving into piles of coins or banknotes!!!), and some of tyhe stories sometimes numismatics enter the fold like his 1875 first dime (In the books Uncle Scrooge was born in 1867 in Scotland and came to America in 1877).

So yes another expensive and silly hobby for me, cheaper comics cost between $1 and $8, more expensive ones in the $10s of dollars and really pristine ones like a 1940 Walt Disney's commics and Stories, Uncle Scrooge 1952 first issue - the sky is the limit.

Photos show - 1. Common Whitman and Goldkeys from 1978 - 1982 and a Magman comic from 1984 (A failed attempt by an Australian to revive them).
2. WG - Wogan comics (Australian reprints) - earlier 1970s a better group with intact covers
3. A real prize a rare March 1950 WDC and Stories with a CarL Barks 10 Page Donald Duck story (He was like the Kruger Grey/Stuart Devlin of duck stories).
4. A group of American gold keys from the early 1970s complete with authentic ads for decals, and sea monkeys.

I agree, I love gold - I bought some yesterday and my friend said I looked like Scrooge McDuck holding it up (Oh my budget, one teensy 1/4 ounce coin was all I got, and some Perth mint bars to wash it down).

I have several sovereigns too, but they are mainly gold value only and numismatic, that coin was well above average for type and a stunner and shows the usual heavier wear on the Queen for that type. My 1871S for instance is only gVF for the Queen and gEF for the shield.

Love those big Swedes! They had a mountain of copper called "Storja Kopparborg" or some cod English sounding name like that. It meant there was copper forever and in an era before electrical wire that pretty much just left coin making.

I have a 1 ore coin coin, usually a teensy thing the size of a 1 cent coin or less, in 1645 it was a behemoth 50 grams and 45mm in size.

Off stike on one side, Numista told me the date of it is 1641 or 1645 and Christina was the Queen then. They made these up to multiple ore, krona, dalers and all, the biggest are like slabs of copper for several dalers and they weigh like 15kg - so this is a fish scale next to it. The coin is so big, I keep it in a box, it would wreck any flip or album page I had.

For anyone interested I've just posted this on the ACF forum. Rather than double up just nip over there for a look.

Quote from: Triggersmob on October 22, 2026, 03:08:33 AMVery nice. I imagine 70 is common among these newer coins.

I would hope so. Most new coins should be having the benefit of superior minting technology.
If a proof coin grades worse than a 69 now it should be scrapped and remelted.

Thanks PYW.