“'D'You Wanna Be In My Gang?' Boys' Comics, Club Membership, and a 'Tribal Britain'”

This article is concerned with club membership of boys' comics during a 'tribal Britain' of the 1970s. As such, it illustrates how through the wearing of, for example, pin badges, not only was the consumption of a particular boys' comic made explicit, but that the readers' engagement with the notion of a violent 'tribal Britain' was entered into. Thus, this article draws a direct correlation between the reading of comics during a 1970s childhood and the adherence to gang-oriented youth subcultures during a 1980s adolescence.