Billy's Boots, Book One

by Fred Baker, John Gillatt (Illustrator)

Fantasy meets football in the magical story of a boy and his enchanted boots! Young Billy Dane was one of the most passionate football fans at Bingley Road Junior school...unfortunately he was also one of the worst players! Then, one afternoon, Billy's grandmother got him to clean out her attic and Billy finds a pair of old fashioned football boots that belonged to 'Dead-Shot' Keen - a famous centre forward who once played for England.

Genres: Comics

112 pages, Hardcover

Published January 23, 2020

Reviews

[Sloe]

Surprisingly engaging for a footie comic from 1970. Contrary to expectations, it's not all about various way Billy loses and retrieves his boots each week, it's 30-40% at most - mostly it's drama with schoolmates, fellow players, coaches, headmasters, and grandma. All of those characters are one-dimensional paper cutouts, and a few still manage to be inconsistent, but it's still great fun and extremely silly nowadays (special mentions to the storyline of Billy getting so concussed he forgets his name, and basically just being told to walk it off with nobody at all caring). Also, great lettering, with fun choices like coloured balloons