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Roy of the Rovers - Best of the 1960s
THE LONG HARD ROAD TOWEMBLEY!
The sixties are a definingdecade for Great Britain. London is becoming the cultural mecca of the world,the Beatles are dominating the music charts, and in 1966 England will lift the World Cup for the first time.
It’s also a period of greatturmoil for Melchester Rovers and their super-striker captain, Roy Race; from asaboteur within the club burning down the dressing room, an obsessed fan tryingto ruin their cup run and theRovers crash-landing on a small South American Island, the team will have toface down problems which threaten their very existence!
The swinging-sixties come tolife in this action-packed footballing epic! Experience the highs and lows onand off the pitch with Roy and Melchester Rovers, brought to you by comics’legend Joe Colquhoun and WorldCup winner Sir Bobby Charlton
The sixties are a definingdecade for Great Britain. London is becoming the cultural mecca of the world,the Beatles are dominating the music charts, and in 1966 England will lift the World Cup for the first time.
It’s also a period of greatturmoil for Melchester Rovers and their super-striker captain, Roy Race; from asaboteur within the club burning down the dressing room, an obsessed fan tryingto ruin their cup run and theRovers crash-landing on a small South American Island, the team will have toface down problems which threaten their very existence!
The swinging-sixties come tolife in this action-packed footballing epic! Experience the highs and lows onand off the pitch with Roy and Melchester Rovers, brought to you by comics’legend Joe Colquhoun and WorldCup winner Sir Bobby Charlton
96 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2019
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March 17, 2020
In which Rovers get kidnapped whilst on their way to play a game in South America and are forced to play against a team made up of rebel fighters on a Caribbean island.
Then the team is sold and moved 10 miles across town by an unscrupulous new owner. Roy though has a plan, lucky for the Rovers that he does as the new manager seems intend on killing the first team squad by dumping them up a Scottish mountain in their tracksuits in the middle of a blizzard!
Once that's sorted out we follow their quest for the 1966 FA Cup which is blown off course by the actions of a vengeful fan. Oddly the Rovers unscrupulous new owner (who now isn't their owner anymore) is now an opposing manager.
Its a ROCKET!
Then the team is sold and moved 10 miles across town by an unscrupulous new owner. Roy though has a plan, lucky for the Rovers that he does as the new manager seems intend on killing the first team squad by dumping them up a Scottish mountain in their tracksuits in the middle of a blizzard!
Once that's sorted out we follow their quest for the 1966 FA Cup which is blown off course by the actions of a vengeful fan. Oddly the Rovers unscrupulous new owner (who now isn't their owner anymore) is now an opposing manager.
Its a ROCKET!
November 25, 2022
After the slight disappointment of the 1983 annual this was more what I had been expecting as it contained full on stories which in real time would have spanned months.
Incredible to think the comic was 2 pages a week in those for Roy of the Rovers.
It also opened my eyes to the story lines being written by Bobby Charlton which was a big surprise.
It does seem that the 60s were a good era for the comics as the stories lines were well thought out had all the trepidation it required and reminded me of the 90s TV programme The Hurricanes that I also loved.
Everyone loves a comic baddie and I certainly will be looking out for more in the future
Incredible to think the comic was 2 pages a week in those for Roy of the Rovers.
It also opened my eyes to the story lines being written by Bobby Charlton which was a big surprise.
It does seem that the 60s were a good era for the comics as the stories lines were well thought out had all the trepidation it required and reminded me of the 90s TV programme The Hurricanes that I also loved.
Everyone loves a comic baddie and I certainly will be looking out for more in the future
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