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But that’s not me rooting for the Chiefs, that’s me rooting for people I don’t like to be annoyed, and having my enjoyment of a game hinge on annoying people I don’t like being unhappy because of something barely related to the game at all is silly. The 49ers had to barely hang on to eek out a win against two teams they were supposed to be better than. From 3rd July 1971 Scorcher merged with "Score" (originally "Score and Roar"), then finally with "Tiger" from 12th October 1974. By the end of the comic, they’ve scored a hattrick for England schoolboys v Brazil and made the headlines in the paper. Along with the annual wallcharts with pull out tabs that meant you could move teams up and down the league tables my other memory is when, I think Scorcher and Score , ran the first ever Fantasy League.

Scorcher Comic was launched by IPC on 10th January 1970 inspired by the success of football magazines like 'Goal' and 'Shoot'. 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. As the comic didn't reach a very large audience at the time I thought it'd be worth scanning the complete ROTR episode from issue number 6, where Roy's troubled but talented son Rocky contemplates the huge legacy that everybody is expecting him to live up to.Fair play is emphasised, and there are exhortations toward purportedly higher ethics including encouraging boys to join the army during the First World War. The exhibition has been curated by Steve McGarry in collaboration with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and the National Football Museum. It has always struck me as curious that all the major football stars in The Hotspur (Cannonball Kidd : Ritchie : Napper Todd), The Rover (Nick Smith : Wally Brand) and The Wizard (Limp Along Leslie : Bernard Briggs), who had series in the late forties and fifties, most of them roughly contemporaneous with Baldy's in Adventure up to 1952, went on to reprise many of their exploits in Thomsons' picture story papers, whereas only the first serial about Burhill was repeated, and even that had to wait until the arrival of the picture version of The Wizard in 1970.

I was there when he played his first game in '54, it was the Roy we know who had his first game in 1954.The top scan below shows Roy on his first visit to Melchester's ground in September 1954, the second one, from August 1955, shows him spearheading the first team attack on the club's South American summer tour. The Chiefs winning the game would make a very irritating type of person very mad, and that thought brings me joy. Plenty of stories are ludicrously contrived: a Nazi considering his best chance of concealment is among a football team, or a player targeted during a match by triads. 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. When the game began Jack’s lean hard-muscled figure soon caught the eye of United’s manager Eric Mills,” reads the caption.

The Ultimate Fantasy Football Team is a distinctive, nostalgic overview of the football comic book phenomenon that has been thoroughly studied to explore the history and the narratives connected with these comics and its heroes. If I remember right they were two comics and you had Jack of United and Jimmy of City who were brothers.

As you pointed out, aspects of the concept frequently surfaced, Larsen in The Wizard in 1975 being a perfect example, but the serial that had the greatest affinity with The Goal Maker was The Face Of Romany Fortune, which appeared in Thomsons' girls' paper Spellbound 36 - 48 in 1977. Boys' comics have provided their readers with entertainment, excitement, and escapism ever since they were first published in the late nineteenth century.

But the Chiefs still can’t score and the Ravens defense came to play so the game was never out of hand. As I suggested earlier the thing that really appealed to me about this brave attempt to bring an icon of popular fiction up to date was the way in which Fleetway did so without ignoring or invalidating the previous continuity - and in the process came up with a possible answer for the question as to how so many comic characters can still be the same age today as they were fifty, sixty or seventy years ago.Sinister land-grabbing chairmen abound and many ideas considered eccentric or outlandish in the comics of yesteryear are now commonplace. Finally to make this a truly unique keepsake, add your personal message that appears on the inside front cover.

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