Football's Comic Book Heroes

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As an aside Roy of the Rovers final appearance was in the BBC's Match of Day Magazine in the May/June 1997 issue.

Read many times over and so proud shown to all very exciting gift - gift box a nice touch I would highly recommend great for a gift with a difference ! In the face of such market dominance by "Match", during this period many of its rival titles either closed or, in the case of "Shoot", changed frequency to monthly.Even found a huge box full at a Fete one year (I was there only on my bicycle so had to persuade my parents to go back down later to pick it up in the car), no one wanted it and I actually got it for nothing. Fair play is emphasised, and there are exhortations toward purportedly higher ethics including encouraging boys to join the army during the First World War. I was there when he played his first game in '54, it was the Roy we know who had his first game in 1954. According to the British Library "Striker" launched on 10th of January 1970 and ran until 4th March 1972 when it was incorporated into "Inside Football".

Phoenix wrote:The only problem with that explanation, MMi, is that, although the old guy on the touchline says, It was y'grandad that did it for me. The many hours spent by Adam Riches poring through the comics in the National Publication Archives make him the man to fill us in. The work shown on this site is for CV / portfolio purposes only and intends no other connection with any products shown. There might be popups and you might have to wait 20 seconds or something on certain links, but bear in mind these have been scanned by volunteers and finding free files hosts isn't simple, but if you're patient you can fill your (or Billy's) boots.The exhibition at the National Football Museum, Manchester opens on July 5 and runs until September 2. After an invitation to attend One Tournament a special National football tournament, the tournament plays out every young boys dream.

I don't know whether you are aware of this, Terry, but Iron Barr from Spike was initially a rerunning of Bernard Briggs - He Only Lost One Goal, which appeared in The Wizard 1541 (Aug. only sixteen issues though despite the apparently long run, due to the paper appearing only on alternate weeks for its first four instalments, three weeks in four thereafter, just missing the strike covering the rest of March, which meant that after issue 1184 there wasn't another Adventure for four weeks. Some of the characters in stories like Jimmy Stone"the hardest shot in football" there was a stereotypical South American Miranda or something who had "as many tricks as a barrowload of monkeys" and there was Jed Logan who was an old jakey but when he donned his magic boots became a wizard on the wing.

Annoyed by discourse or not, Mr Irrelevant leading the team to a Super Bowl victory would honestly be pretty cool. Our concept was simple - to create a personalised prestige comic book that football fans of all ages will not only read, but love and cherish. I bought the first, and many subsequent, issues of Tiger from 1954 onwards for a couple of years, and started again with the first issue of Roy Of The Rovers in 1976, which I then bought every week for two or three years. Breck whose machine is able to take the skills of better players and implant them, using electro-hypnosis, into Bowman.

philcom55 wrote:This is the version of Roy of the Rovers Monthly that picked up where Roy's weekly title left off when it's star lost his foot in a tragic helicopter crash. There is virtually no background, it looks as though only the minimum to get the story across has been done, it really does look amateurish. There is the suspicion throughout that the synopses of stories from the boys’ papers are far more entertaining than wading through them. It genuinely felt, for at least 2 quarters, like we were about to live in a world where the Detroit Lions were in the Super Bowl.Got this for my nephew he dreams of playing for England, absolutely footy mad has all the strips and balls, but this is something to keep, really nice idea and was impressed by the quality of the artwork. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Here's some links to some of these comics in CBR/CBZ format - they're essentially jpegs in a RAR/ZIP wrapper and you should be able to open them without any hassle.