Looking through some old photographs, I came across these pictures of my bedroom wall when I was a young boy. As you can see, my heroes back then weren't pop stars or sporting heroes like you'd find on a lot of boy's walls, but (perhaps unsurprisingly) the same comic book characters who still provide me entertainment and reassurance thirty years later. If I couldn't get to sleep, I could always glance across at my four-colour friends for comfort in the night.
Look - I even had a Spider-Man lampshade... how cool is that?
Most of these posters came from Marvel UK comics of the time which usually had a full-colour pull-out in their centre pages, even when the rest of the comic was printed in black and white. I also recall a Marvel Poster book which gave me some of the better quality images on the wall below. You can even see my own sorry attempts at being a comic artist pinned to the lower wall - just above my young scalp as I hold the camera up high behind me to get this picture.
As I grew older, I took the posters from my bedroom wall and pinned them up in the box room at the top of the stairs. My teenage bedroom wall gave fewer clues to my comics addiction, although the duvet cover, headboard full of stickers and box of comics at the side of the bed show that I'd hardly left my heroes behind.
Looking back at these photos now, I feel a warm sense of nostalgia for my childhood bedroom. I was happy there, safe, and always had something to keep me entertained. Part of me wishes I could go back, to simpler times, when life wasn't so damned complicated. Of course, I'd probably hate it... but it'd be nice to take a few days holiday there at least.
What did your teenage bedroom look like? Who were the heroes on your walls? Do you have photographs? Consider this a meme challenge... do you accept?
