This book is now available to order.
It was due out in September, but I thought, “Who doesn’t love a summer special?”
We all remember taking a holiday special away with us to read each summer, now you can do the same with this book. It is now available to pre-order as an ebook, with the hard copy softcover available on Friday 24th July 2026. Books normally take 2-3 days to post, as they are printed and dispatched by Amazon worldwide from your local Amazon factory. Next day delivery for Amazon Prime members in the UK.
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Ebook links here – US UK DE FR ES IT NL JP BR CA MX AU IN
Roy of the Rovers comic ran from 1976-93 and at its peak, was among the most popular children’s publications on the market. With its selection of comic strips, features, posters, free gifts, and more, it was everything a young football fan could wish for on a weekly basis.Inside this book, the author gives a critical analysis of every strip, season by season, with obligatory marks out of ten, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the comic, as he looks at its history from start to finish. Every strip reviewed. No holds barred.
This is a celebration of a long-lost legend. In the packed appendices, there’s a full A-Z of the comic strips, a guide to the issue dates, a full A-Z of “Sign Please”, the popular feature from the early years, an estimate of how many appearances Roy Race did actually make and how many goals he scored, a location guide to the Melchester-verse and much, much more.
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