Most weeks I upload scans from my vintage magazine collection. Whether it's Lillian Gish in a 1920 Picturegoer or Robin Williams in a 1979 My Guy, you can find them all listed HERE. This week I'm running a little giveaway instead for the Best of Jackie Annual.
Launched in January 1964, Jackie quickly became an ubiquitous companion to Britain's teen - or pre-teen, at any rate - girls. Agony Aunts Cathy and Claire responded to readers' problems, providing they weren't too risque, and pull out posters of David Cassidy, David Essex and Donny Osmond graced many a 1970s bedroom wall. The magazine retained strong sales through most of the 1980s but, by the end of the decade, tastes were changing. Circulation fell and the title folded in 1993, making way for new titles like Sugar (launched in '94) and Bliss ('95).
If you want to relive, or simply live, the joys of Jackie you can get up to five entries for the giveaway by filling out the Gleam form below:
i loved smash hits :)
ReplyDeleteMe too, I was gutted when it folded!
DeleteI always had Jackie & Smash Hits, but loved the stories in Jackie
ReplyDeleteJackie had folded by the time I started buying my own magazines, but my dad used to get me the annuals from car boot sales and I loved the stories. All the 'contemporary' magazines seemed interested in was fashion features on stuff I couldn't afford :/
DeleteLoved the beano, the dandy and the topper xx
ReplyDeleteMy brother *loved* the Beano :)
DeleteI liked Look-In, however, my Wife was a Jackie devotee so I would love to win this for her.
ReplyDeleteI've got the 'best of look-in' books - I couldn't resist getting the 70s one because it had Stan from On the Buses on the cover. I must have seen the films hundreds of times as a kid!
DeleteJackie and Smash Hits were my favourites.
ReplyDeleteMy Mam loved these!
ReplyDeleteI loved Jackie.
ReplyDeleteI loved Jackie, The Beano and Barbie! Jackie was my favourite though!
ReplyDeleteThe Beano
ReplyDeleteused to love Jackie, got it every week as a young teenager
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits!! xx
ReplyDeleteI loved Bunty in my younger days and Jackie and Just Seventeen later on
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Just Seventeen was my favourite :)
DeleteLook on @tigerfanjane (aj)
ReplyDeleteI loved the Judy
ReplyDeleteI loved My Guy and Fab 208 Magazine
ReplyDeleteI loved Shout!
ReplyDeleteI used to read Shout! :)
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ReplyDeleteI always got the beano :)
ReplyDeletei used to read a mag called look in and then moved to smash hits
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits
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ReplyDeleteI loved top of the pops magazine (Peter Andre posters ;-) xxx
ReplyDeleteHehe, my walls were covered in posters of Five and A1 :)
DeleteI loved just seventeen!
ReplyDeleteMe too :)
DeleteSmash hits xxx
ReplyDeleteI loved Mizz magazine.
ReplyDeleteAw, I used to love Mizz too. I remember getting lip gloss and stuff like that with it.
DeleteI liked Shout as they had good competitions and I won my gameboy colour from them/1
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool! I never managed to win any of the magazine competitions.
DeleteI used to love Bunty Magazine.
ReplyDeleteShout was my favourite
ReplyDeletemy sister had Jackie annual
ReplyDeleteI liked Just Seventeen
ReplyDeleteSorry I must not have read it right. I thought it said favourite game growing up,not magazine. Oh well (Mousetrap/Smash Hits)
ReplyDeleteI loved reading Cathy and Claire in the Jackie Thanks
ReplyDeleteIt had to be jackie my sister liked twinkle
ReplyDeleteUsed to buy Dandy and Beano
ReplyDeleteIt was Jackie!
ReplyDeleteJackie and My Guy
ReplyDeleteFirst Bunty, then Jackie, then' Womans OWn!!
ReplyDeleteIt was Twinkle, and then Jackie :-)
ReplyDeleteMine was Jackie
ReplyDeleteSmash hits then shout x
ReplyDeleteI had completely forgotten how much I loved reading Jackie until I read your post :)
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I've never read Jackie but I'm pretty sure my mum was a fan :) Thanks for sharing with #ReadWithMe
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ReplyDeletegirl magazine thankyou
ReplyDeleteBliss or Just Seventeen were my favourites
ReplyDeleteI loved fast forward mag
ReplyDeleteBlue Jeans :-)
ReplyDeleteHorse and pony magazine lol
ReplyDeleteBeano and Dandy and then Jackie
ReplyDeleteI loved Smash hits and Mizz
ReplyDeleteI loved Jackie, when younger loved Princess Tina too
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits and Just 17
ReplyDeleteI loved Smash Hits too...the blog has bought back so many great memories - thanks! I remember waiting so eagerly for the new pop gossip to come out, nowadays it's all on social media.
ReplyDeleteJackie, I couldn't wait for it to be delivered, my fave story was Valda.
ReplyDeleteSmash hits
ReplyDeleteIt was Bunty, I loved that! So did my Dad, he used to read it after me! When I was a bit older I loved 'Fast Forward', I had a letter published in there once and I was SO proud!
ReplyDeleteHas to be the beano
ReplyDeleteI used to read Viz.
ReplyDeleteI loved the stories in Bunty
ReplyDeleteJackie was always my favourite - although I rarely had enough money to buy it! I kept one particular poster of David Essex from Jackie for years and years :)
ReplyDeleteA magazine called Twinkle :)
ReplyDeleteBunty was my favourite! :-)
ReplyDeleteJust Seventeen
ReplyDeleteJackie, My Guy and Smash Hits
ReplyDeletei loved smash hits, just so i could learn all the song lyrics.
ReplyDeleteJackie for me
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits for me
ReplyDeleteI loved Shout magazine.
ReplyDeleteSmash hits!
ReplyDeleteSmash hits!
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits for the music and free vinyls ...
ReplyDeleteCOR!
ReplyDeleteI had Bunty.
ReplyDeleteit was called Big, not sure if its still around now
ReplyDeleteThe Beano!
ReplyDeleteI used to love Beano, when I was older it was Smash Hits and I used to read my older cousins My Guy :)
ReplyDeleteFast Forward
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i loved the beano x Sharon L Johnson
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits was a fav of mine! (@PeanutHog)
ReplyDeleteI loved Smash Hits!!
ReplyDeleteJust 17 magazine
ReplyDeleteThe Look In annual and magazine was my fave
ReplyDeleteMy fav was Beano :)
ReplyDeleteI loved Jackie and Mizz! My gran also used to buy me Look In and Smash Hits!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading Jackie, and Diane
ReplyDeleteBliss magazine was my favourite
ReplyDeleteTwinkle when I was a child then Just 17 as I got older
ReplyDeleteI loved reading (still do) so have a selection of magazines I grew up with ranging from Roy Of The Rovers and Shoot to Look In and Smash Hits!
ReplyDeleteThe ones that spring to mind for me are I loved The Beano, Top of the Pops and Animals & You!
ReplyDeleteJackie and Just Seventeen
ReplyDeleteWe always had Jackie & Bunty. Showing my age! 😁
ReplyDeletejust seventeen
ReplyDeleteIt was Jackie for me throughout the 70's
ReplyDeleteJust Seventeen, Smash Hits and Bunty (I had old copies from my nan haha)
ReplyDeleteThe Beano
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely loved The Beano
ReplyDeleteGem Cook (Gemma Cook )
Look in, loved it for all the posters which then covered my wall.
ReplyDeleteJackie was definitely my favourite mag of the times xxx
ReplyDeleteBeano and Dandy when i was really young then went onto Jackie xx
ReplyDeleteLoved beano but Jackie reminds me of my mum, she was always talking about it when I was a child
ReplyDeleteSugar
ReplyDeletei loved jackie, i used to stick the posters all over my bedroom wall
ReplyDeleteUsed to love Jackie and Smash Hits. :)
ReplyDeleteI liked the Top of the Pops mag.
ReplyDeleteAlways got lookin
ReplyDeleteSmash Hits even better when Take That were on the cover
ReplyDeleteI loved Bunty and Sugar.
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ReplyDeleteI loved them all. Look-In, Jackie, Just Seventeen, Mizz and even read my brothers Beano and Dandy xx
ReplyDeleteJackie was my favourite , I got it delivered every week and put the posters on my walls . Loved the articles too , happy days .
ReplyDeleteBunty was my favourite
ReplyDeleteTracey Beaker Magazine xx
ReplyDeletej-17 and smash hits,i LOVED these magazines when i was in my teens :) xxx
ReplyDeleteI cannot decide between just seventeen and smash hits! But wow there was so many more about at that time that I compleatly adored! Fun times :) Dxx
ReplyDeleteThe Beano x
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