Something a bit different for this week’s Dusting Off, as I recently dug out a pile of issues (actually borrowed off a mate) of
Roy of the Rovers,
in order to look something up in them – and I thought it might be fun
to attempt to review one. For non-UK readers who don’t have a clue what
I’m talking about,
Roy of the Rovers was a weekly comic strip
begun in the 1950s, chronicling the adventures of a football (soccer)
player named Roy Race, and his team, Melchester Rovers. It was part of a
great culture of British sporting comics – one that gradually died out
as the 1980s and 1990s went on – and by far the most successful example,
starting in an anthology series called
Tiger before moving to its own eponymous comic in the ’70s.
