I’m excited about staging an exhibition that combines my two lifelong passions of football and art, and it’s a bonus that it launches in my native Manchester!

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. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Digifiend wrote:At a guess, they retconned it so that the short haired Roy of the 50s and 60s is the father of the long haired 70s and 80s version who had his own comic, rather than being the same character.Fair play is emphasised, and there are exhortations toward purportedly higher ethics including encouraging boys to join the army during the First World War. This is confirmed by the inclusion of a 40-page composite comic culled from publications through the decades, presenting three illustrated text stories spanning 1910 to 1944, and the later exploits of Nipper and Billy’s Boots, which can still raise a smile. 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.

In the same year it debuted as a picture strip in The Victor, running into 1963 as Pickford - Past Master Of Football. I don't remember ever reading The Scoop, that Jon Stark character would have been a great read by the looks of it. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.Anyone remember when Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse moved from Princes Park to 'Glengow Rangers' where they were followed by their old manager Ian McWhacker? Newspaper readers were lucky to see results, never mind anything further, and football literature was equally scarce.

The original serial, The Goal Maker, was in The Wizard in 1948/49, repeated as The Goalmaker in the same paper in 1956/57. The exhibition at the National Football Museum, Manchester opens on July 5 and runs until September 2. Finally, in the last minute of the Cup Final at Wembley, you have been awarded a free kick, will you score the Winner. They were both scrupulously honest scrap metal dealers, (almost a contradiction in terms in real life, I suspect), both insisted on playing as amateurs, and both only gave respect when respect was earned.Remember his team were getting beat one week and he turned up and went straight into goals whereby he launched a huge kick out up the pitch . And, these things do happen, a man in a checked jacket approaches from the touchline and says, “I’m Ian Clark, manager of Castleburn City, you’re the type of player I’m always looking for. Bernard turning up was like manna from heaven, in precisely the same way as Charlie 'Iron' Barr's in 1983. IPC launched "Shoot magazine , a football magazine for children on 16 August 1969 exactly a year after Goal (for grown ups!

Kevin Keegan was the first cover star of Match and supported the magazine with his column, Learn To Play The Keegan Way. These two strips book-ended the comic (Jack at the front, Jimmy at the back, if memory serves) and were, in a word, quality.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). At a guess, they retconned it so that the short haired Roy of the 50s and 60s is the father of the long haired 70s and 80s version who had his own comic, rather than being the same character. This is pure fantasy football, we dream of days like this growing up, this hand-drawn classic comic plays out every budding young footballers dream. Always loved the names of the fictional teams they came up with, "Stone Orient", obviously alluding to Leyton Orient proverbial relegation battlers of their day.