Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer and later manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester...
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Roy of the Rovers comic magazine was launched as a weekly on 25 September 1976, named after the established comic strip of the same name that first appeared...
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Bob Wilson (footballer, born 1941) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
needed] In the mid-1980s he featured in a comic strip when he spent a season playing for the fictional Melchester Rovers team in Roy of the Rovers, in a team...
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Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse (category Comics set in the United Kingdom)
Mouse stayed on with Rovers until he retired eventually becoming Rovers' manager. After Mouse suffers a heart attack near the end of Roy Race's first season...
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Tiger (British comics) (category Comics magazines published in the United Kingdom)
contained a large number of sport strips. The most famous of these was "Roy of the Rovers", which debuted in the first issue and was the comic's most popular...
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the comic world." In 1954, Tiger comics introduced Roy of the Rovers, the hugely popular football based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the...
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2. The title is a parody of the long-running football-themed comic strip, Roy of the Rovers. Although a knowledge of football was useful for the appreciation...
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British comics (redirect from History of the British Comic)
introduced Roy of the Rovers, the hugely popular football based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. The stock...
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Rebellion Developments (category Comic book publishing companies of the United Kingdom)
Treasury of British Comics imprint, including Roy of the Rovers, Wildcat and One-Eyed Jack. This would be followed by an acquisition of the pre-1970 titles...
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Encounters of the Third Kind Roy O'Brien, eponymous animated protagonist of Roy Roy Race, from the comic strip Roy of the Rovers Roy Rooster, in the comic...
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