Favorite Mag When growing up

[Eggmundo]

Whizzer & Chips, Eagle & 2000AD. I have masses of 2000 AD's in the loft, sad to say but I was still buying it in my 20's.

 

[Easy 10]

*geek*

 

[Questions]

Which comic was it that had ''Lags Eleven'' in it ?

A story about a convict team. Tiger and Jag or Scorcher I think.

Best ever story was ''The Football family Robinson'' who played in the old 3rd division with a team picked entirely from one family. I think there was a lot of imbreading in the squad and unheard of today ( well apart from Gillingham )

Fred the dad and captain played in a bowler hat and his son Tich who was about 4 foot 8 inches specialised in scissor kicks. They got to the cup final one year.

 

[Bob!]

Shoot or Goal! for me

 

[timbha]

Which comic was it that had ''Lags Eleven'' in it ?

A story about a convict team. Tiger and Jag or Scorcher I think.

QUOTE]

no apologies for a spot of self indulgence:

Scorcher was a departure from the style of comic popular in the 1960s. There were comics with funny stories aimed at a young audience (Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Buster, Sparky and so on), boy's comics with a mix of sport and adventure stories (Lion, Tiger), war stories (Victor, Valiant and the various Picture Library titles), or girl's comics like Diana, Bunty and Mandy, and of course the TV related titles like TV 21, TV Tornado and TV Comic.

Scorcher went for the core readership of young football fans, and found an instant and very large market.

The comic was mostly devoted to strips of more or less believable football action. "Bobby of the Blues" was along similar lines to "Roy of the Rovers", with our good guy Bobby foiling the plots of various bad guys. "Paxton's Powerhouse" was about an obsessive manager who drove his players to their limits to make his team successful (ridiculous eh??). "Lag's Eleven" was a bit of light relief about a team of convict players. "Billy's Boots" told the story of the schoolboy who could only play in the haunted boots of the old professional footballer "Dead-Shot" Keen. The bizarre "Kangaroo Kid" told the frankly unlikely story of a boy brought up by kangaroos who could leap twelve feet in the air, which gave him a bit of an edge at corners.

There was a story each week as well, the whole thing interspersed with various items about footballers and teams of the day, refereeing quizzes and articles about famous matches. In general it was a well produced entertaining read, and I took it for two or three years from 11 to about 13 I think, along with a few other similar titles like "Striker" (which started on the same day) and "Score and Roar" which hit the shops in September 1970.

Eventually the market couldn't support all these titles. From 3rd July 1971 Scorcher merged with "Score" (originally "Score and Roar"), then finally with "Tiger" from 12th October 1974. Eventually the Scorcher and Score was dropped from the title, with "Tiger and Speed" becoming the new name from 1st November 1980. The 1970s soccer boom was over, and football entered a difficult phase with the waves of violence and tragic events of the 1980s. Sadly, even with the arrival of The Premiership and a new found audience for football, the football comic never took off again. Scorcher was the pick of the bunch, and is becoming increasingly popular with football collectors who have fond memories of it.

 

[queens park pete]

Codename Warlord-
and then after five years of that and Sven Hassel literature it was time for me to join CND and buy a duffel coat. Strange how life turns out.

 

[Questions]

Which comic was it that had ''Lags Eleven'' in it ?

A story about a convict team. Tiger and Jag or Scorcher I think.

QUOTE]

no apologies for a spot of self indulgence:

Scorcher was a departure from the style of comic popular in the 1960s. There were comics with funny stories aimed at a young audience (Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Buster, Sparky and so on), boy's comics with a mix of sport and adventure stories (Lion, Tiger), war stories (Victor, Valiant and the various Picture Library titles), or girl's comics like Diana, Bunty and Mandy, and of course the TV related titles like TV 21, TV Tornado and TV Comic.

Scorcher went for the core readership of young football fans, and found an instant and very large market.

The comic was mostly devoted to strips of more or less believable football action. "Bobby of the Blues" was along similar lines to "Roy of the Rovers", with our good guy Bobby foiling the plots of various bad guys. "Paxton's Powerhouse" was about an obsessive manager who drove his players to their limits to make his team successful (ridiculous eh??). "Lag's Eleven" was a bit of light relief about a team of convict players. "Billy's Boots" told the story of the schoolboy who could only play in the haunted boots of the old professional footballer "Dead-Shot" Keen. The bizarre "Kangaroo Kid" told the frankly unlikely story of a boy brought up by kangaroos who could leap twelve feet in the air, which gave him a bit of an edge at corners.

There was a story each week as well, the whole thing interspersed with various items about footballers and teams of the day, refereeing quizzes and articles about famous matches. In general it was a well produced entertaining read, and I took it for two or three years from 11 to about 13 I think, along with a few other similar titles like "Striker" (which started on the same day) and "Score and Roar" which hit the shops in September 1970.

Eventually the market couldn't support all these titles. From 3rd July 1971 Scorcher merged with "Score" (originally "Score and Roar"), then finally with "Tiger" from 12th October 1974. Eventually the Scorcher and Score was dropped from the title, with "Tiger and Speed" becoming the new name from 1st November 1980. The 1970s soccer boom was over, and football entered a difficult phase with the waves of violence and tragic events of the 1980s. Sadly, even with the arrival of The Premiership and a new found audience for football, the football comic never took off again. Scorcher was the pick of the bunch, and is becoming increasingly popular with football collectors who have fond memories of it.

Bobby of the Blues..................... I remmber that .............. wait for it, He actually played for Everpool. Brilliant.

I used to get my 2 comics from a shop in Montague street in Worthing at 4 o,clock on a friday. It was the highlight of my week apart from getting the Classified after a good Albion win at 6.10 on a saturday evening. How I wish I still got that buzz now.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

"Tiger & Scorcher" with peak interest around 1978 I should think...

Favourite characters: Hot Shot Hamish; Nipper Lawrence and Billy Dane.

The excitement created by Peter Ward being the big colour picture one week has rarely been matched since...

 

[timbha]

"Tiger & Scorcher" with peak interest around 1978 I should think...

Favourite characters: Hot Shot Hamish; Nipper Lawrence and Billy Dane.

The excitement created by Peter Ward being the big colour picture one week has rarely been matched since...

MG - you've made my evening - Hot Shot Hamish - erased from my memory for 30 years, now he could hit a ball. Wonderful memories of comic strip goalkeepers bursting through the back of the net with the ball clasped to their stomach following a HSH shot in the last few seconds of what seemed to be a nil nil draw.

And Billy Dane's boots - how many times did he lose them, have them pinched, hidden, thrown in the river, thrown away by his elderly granny only for them to be rescued from the dustbin just before the binmen came........

 

[Moshe Gariani]

MG - you've made my evening - Hot Shot Hamish - erased from my memory for 30 years, now he could hit a ball. Wonderful memories of comic strip goalkeepers bursting through the back of the net with the ball clasped to their stomach following a HSH shot in the last few seconds of what seemed to be a nil nil draw.

And Billy Dane's boots - how many times did he lose them, have them pinched, hidden, thrown in the river, thrown away by his elderly granny only for them to be rescued from the dustbin just before the binmen came........

glad to be of service...I don't think it is exaggerating to say that for me those characters are the best representation of a blissful age when such things could be the most prominent in one's life... my copy of "Tiger" used to arrive through the post rolled up in a tube as my slightly batty maiden Aunts (still both going strong in their 80s) used to order it from their local shop and then mail it to me! Your description of Hotshot (sp?) Hamish sending hapless custodians flying through the back of the net is spot on and Billy Dane finding his boots just in time for Deadshot Keen to guide him to the far post... magic stuff... I've just remembered I also used to love Johnny Cougar (just Googled him and been reminded of his "Seminole Red Indian matman" epithet...) - nice to see reference to the quality of the drawing - I can still picture Johnny Cougar's muscly arms getting to grips with an opponent...

 

[timbha]

more please MG - remind me about Nipper Lawrence

 

[Moshe Gariani]

more please MG - remind me about Nipper Lawrence

'Nipper' was the story of a young orphan 'Nipper' Lawrence and his dog 'Stumpy' (Stumpy was saved by Nipper from drowning at the docks) who lived in the Midland's estuary town of Blackport. Nipper had been orphaned after the death of his father who had worked as a cahier for a local shipping firm. The police had been chasing Nipper's father at the time of his death as they believed he was responsible for swindling money from the shipping firm. Nipper was convinced that his father knew the identity of the real thief and believed that his father was on the way to the police to inform them when he died in the accident.

Nipper believed in his father's innocence so strongly that he would often get involved in fights if anyone suggested that his father was a thief. Nipper was determined to clear is father's name and would spend every spare moment working down at the local docks for cash so that he could save up and hire a lawyer who would clear his father's name.

Nipper was in the care of a guardian by the name of Nat Munger. Nipper hated Nat Munger, but considered him being his guardian preferable to being placed in a children's home. Nat Munger would often disappear for weeks at a time leaving Nipper to fend for himself.. Nat Munger stole Nipper's savings which left Nipper with no choice but to work even harder.

On discovering that the new Blackport Rover's signing was on the princely sum of £100 pounds per week, Nipper decided to become a professional footballer. Nipper eventually became a professional footballer for Blackport Rovers after being discovered by Andy Stewart.

 

[1066gull]

beano, then striker

striker dont exist no more and is back in the sun daily

 

[Gazwag]

Found some old roy of the rovers mags at my dads the other day.

My mum and dad cleared out their loft a couple of years ago and gave me back all my Roy of the Rovers, Beano's and Dandy's and I sold them on ebay making near enough a grand.

 

[chez]

Match or Whizzer and Chips.

Ditto

 

[Muzzman]