roy of the rovers was in the comic tiger.
what comic was roy of the rovers in?
tiger
roy of the rovers first appeared on 11 september 1954, as a weekly feature in the comic magazine "tiger", debuting on the front page of the first issue. after 22 years of continued popularity, the strip was judged successful enough to sustain its own weekly comic, the eponymous "roy of the rovers", launched on 25 september 1976. the comic ran for 851 issues, until 20 march 1993, and included other football strips and features. at the peak of the comic's success about 450,000 copies were sold each week. there were also hardback annuals and holiday specials featuring a mix of reprinted and original content, and for a brief period, starting in 1986, roy of the rovers was serialised in the now defunct "today" newspaper. these were all-new strips, focusing largely on the relationship between roy and his wife penny, rather than the action on the pitch. between 1988 and 1993, a "best of roy of the rovers" monthly comic was published, reprinting older stories.
roy of the rovers
the story followed roy race, a striker for the fictional football team melchester rovers, based in a town of the same name in an unspecified part of england, where roy lived with his family. in the first episode, a teenaged roy and his best friend, blackie gray, signed for the rovers after being spotted playing for a youth club team. eight months later, roy and blackie made their first-team debuts against elbury wanderers in a game that ended in a 3–3 draw, with roy scoring twice. he soon became a star, leading the team to either the football league title or a cup almost every season. in january 1975 he was made player-manager, a position he retained for most of the next 20 years. although the strip followed the rovers through nearly 40 seasons, roy did not age at the same rate and appeared to be at most in his late thirties by the time the weekly comic ended. this unrealistic longevity was never remarked upon by the weekly comic, although the monthly comic attempted to address the anomaly by explaining that more than one roy race had played for melchester over the years.
roy of the rovers