Football's Comic Book Heroes

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Dragons Den - We appeared on the Christmas 2018 edition of Dragons Den. What is a very rare event, we proudly received offers from all 5 Dragons. In February 2008 it became apparent that "Match" would once again face fresh circulation challenges when it was announced that the BBC would be launching Match Of The Day magazine into the weekly football marketplace and "Shoot" declared their intention to return to weekly publication, although this didn't last long as Shoot closed in June 2008. In the Fifties, they would have just ignored hooliganism, for sure. I felt we should reflect real life, and if you wanted to reflect real life, you had to take in hooliganism. So, we felt we should try to lead the way and talk to people about how they should behave, hopefully making a contribution."

All this made it easier to involve celebrities. Many real players and managers posed with their arms around a life-size cardboard cut-out, Alf Ramsey appeared as Rovers manager, football stars Trevor Francis and Malcolm MacDonald turned up in the comic, Geoff Boycott became Melchester’s chairman, while for a brief, surreal period in 1985, Steve Norman and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet became Melchester players. In other storylines, Roy took trips to royal weddings, played during an earthquake and starred in a whodunnit mystery, when he was mysteriously shot. editions of Scorcher Annual were published from 1971 to 1984, and Scorcher or Scorcher and SCORE Holiday Specials each summer from 1970 until at least 1980. Unfortunately for IPC/Fleetway, the Daily Mail spotted it. Under the headline "Comic Strip Hooligans", journalist Joe Steeples fumed at the comic "read by 180,000 children each week" and accused it "of pandering to violence". Alan Hardaker, the Football League secretary, was invited to condemn it and seized the chance with both hands. "It is really appalling that there are people so brain-less as to sell comics to children with stuff like this inside them," he said. "The man responsible ought to be hit over the head with a bottle himself."

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Matt Canada becomes the first coordinator in Steelers history to get the boot midseason. Congrats! He should get a plaque in the mail in 3 weeks. Until Steelers fans complained about him I realized I didn’t know a damn thing about Mr Canada so I looked him up and…he ain’t nothing. This was his first NFL gig. Seemed like a guy who kinda failed upwards. Oh well, he’s gone now. While Tomlinson was launching the Roy of the Rovers comic, elsewhere in Fleetway House trouble was brewing. Pat Mills, a freelance writer who had recently created the hard-We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement. Disclaimers Scorcher was the name of a football-themed British comic magazine published by IPC between January 1970 and October 1974. Scorcher featured various well-known comic strips, such as Billy's Boots, Bobby of the Blues and Lags Eleven, a story about a prison football team. In addition, the Nipper strip was absorbed from the Score comic, and Hot Shot Hamish made its first appearance after that. Some of these stories later found homes in Roy of the Rovers and in Tiger. Yet there are also genres that have never quite recovered from the various troughs that the industry has sunk to over the past couple of decades, and thus haven’t re-emerged to share in its occasional highs. War stories have long struggled to maintain much relevance beyond nostalgia, while romance comics are also generally a thing of the past. But the titles and strips that have arguably plummeted the furthest from view from the loftiest of positions are the once-proud, and once spectacularly popular, sports comics. In 1978 DC published a special in which their boy Superman took on the greatest boxer of all time in the ring. Written by Dennis O’Neil and drawn by Neal Adams, it was a special treasury edition that never made it to any newsagents I frequented as a kid. But there was an ad for it in every DC comic I read and the cover was enough in itself to make me salivate. Roy got his own comic in 1976 and as the years passed events became more and more surreal. Scan the autobiography’s index and you will find the following: “assassination attempt”; “Basran car bomb massacre, 1986”; “helicopter crash”; “kidnappings”; “killings of two players”; “earthquakes escaped” and “horse allergy (mild).”