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    Rover, The

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    This boys’ story paper from DC Thomson was launched on 4 March 1922.

    It absorbed Adventure in 1961 and The Wizard in 1963, before finally folding in January 1973.

    Regular comic strips included:

    • Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track
    • The Barrow Boy from Mars
    • The Big Fellow
    • The Big Tree
    • The Dixie Drummer
    • I Flew with Braddock – the sergeant pilot VC was still fighting the Second World War in the 1960s
    • Johnny Gurkha – a tooth and nail warrior: “We are a peaceful people, sahib, and the quickest way to live in peace is to kill our enemies”
    • The Lincolnshire Poacher
    • Pony Express
    • The ‘Tec Nobody Knows
    • V for Vengeance

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