Rover, The

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