Scorcher (magazine), the Glossary
Scorcher was the name of a football-themed British comic magazine published by IPC between January 1970 and October 1974.[1]
Table of Contents
41 relations: Arbroath F.C., Association football, £sd, Billy's Boots, Bobby Moore, Celtic F.C., Charles Atlas, Comic magazine, Dave Mackay, Derby County F.C., English Football League, European Champion Clubs' Cup, Everton F.C., Forward (association football), Goalkeeper (association football), Heart of Midlothian F.C., Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse, Industrial action, Jack Charlton, Kevin Keegan, Liverpool F.C., Norwich City F.C., Oldham Athletic A.F.C., Outback, Police, Portsmouth F.C., Rangers F.C., Roy of the Rovers, Roy of the Rovers (comic), Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Southampton F.C., The Beano, The Dandy, The Guardian, TI Media, Tiger (British comics), Torquay United F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Typewriter, West Ham United F.C..
- 1970 comics debuts
- 1974 comics endings
- Association football comics
- Magazines disestablished in 1974
Arbroath F.C.
Arbroath Football Club is a semi-professional Scottish football club based in the town of Arbroath, Angus.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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£sd
Rochester illustrates the conversion between pence and shillings and shillings and pounds. Old till in Ireland, with "shortcut" keys in various £sd denominations (lower numbers) and their "new pence" equivalent (upper numbers) Toy coin, which teaches children the value of a shilling £sd (occasionally written Lsd), spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence", is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe.
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Billy's Boots
Billy's Boots was a popular British comic strip by writer Fred Baker and artist John Gillatt, later continued by Mike Western. Scorcher (magazine) and Billy's Boots are 1970 comics debuts and association football comics.
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Bobby Moore
Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore (12 April 1941 – 24 February 1993) was an English professional footballer.
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Celtic F.C.
The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano; October 30, 1892December 24, 1972) was an American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.
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Comic magazine
Comic magazine or comics magazine may refer to.
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Dave Mackay
David Craig Mackay (14 November 1934 – 2 March 2015) was a Scottish football player and manager.
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Derby County F.C.
Derby County Football Club is a professional association football club in Derby, England.
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The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales.
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European Champion Clubs' Cup
The European Champion Clubs' Cup, also known as Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens, or simply the European Cup, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Champions League.
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Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.
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In the sport of association football, a forward (attacker or striker) is an outfield position which primarily plays further up the pitch than midfielders and defenders.
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The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a position in association football.
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Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse
Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse were two popular British football-themed comic strips, which later merged and appeared in various publications from the 1970s to the 1990s. Scorcher (magazine) and Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse are association football comics.
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Industrial action
Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.
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Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton (8 May 193510 July 2020) was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back.
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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan (born 14 February 1951) is an English former footballer and manager.
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Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.
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Norwich City F.C.
Norwich City Football Club is a professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
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Outback
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.
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Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
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Portsmouth F.C.
Portsmouth Football Club is a professional association football club based in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
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Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Roy of the Rovers
Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer and later manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. Scorcher (magazine) and Roy of the Rovers are association football comics, Defunct British comics and Fleetway and IPC Comics titles.
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Roy of the Rovers (comic)
Roy of the Rovers comic magazine was launched as a weekly on 25 September 1976, named after the established comic strip of the same name that first appeared as a weekly feature in the Tiger on 11 September 1954. Scorcher (magazine) and Roy of the Rovers (comic) are association football comics, Defunct British comics and Fleetway and IPC Comics titles.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is a professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
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The Beano
The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic, also known as Beano) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Scorcher (magazine) and The Beano are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom and weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom.
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The Dandy
The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. Scorcher (magazine) and the Dandy are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom and Defunct British comics.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.
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Tiger (British comics)
Tiger was a weekly British comics periodical published by Amalgamated Press, Fleetway Publications and IPC Magazines from 11 September 1954 to 30 March 1985. Scorcher (magazine) and Tiger (British comics) are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom and Fleetway and IPC Comics titles.
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Torquay United F.C.
Torquay United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Torquay, Devon, England.
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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, (commonly referred to as simply Tottenham,,, or Spurs), is a professional football club based in Tottenham, North London, England.
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Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
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West Ham United F.C.
West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.
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See also
1970 comics debuts
- Adam Eterno
- Adventure into Fear
- All-Star Western
- Amazing Adventures
- Astonishing Tales
- Billy's Boots
- Black Max
- Bronze Age of Comic Books
- Broom-Hilda
- Commissario Spada
- Conan the Barbarian (comics)
- Conchy
- Cor!!
- Cyclops (magazine)
- Doonesbury
- Elpidio Valdés
- Friday Foster
- Half Hitch (comic strip)
- Hulk: The Manga
- It Ain't Me, Babe (comics)
- Ivor Lott and Tony Broke
- Jack, Jacky and the Juniors
- Momma
- Natacha (comics)
- Oriental Heroes
- Outlaw Kid
- Projunior
- Provolino
- Quincy (comic strip)
- Sammy (comics)
- San Francisco Comic Book
- Scorcher (magazine)
- Slow Death (comics)
- Steel Commando
- Teacher's Pet (comics)
- The Wizard (D.C. Thomson)
- Thunder (British comics)
- Tina's Pals
- Tricky Dicky (Cor!!)
- Western Gunfighters
- Whacky
- Yoko Tsuno
- Young Lust (comics)
- Zio Boris
1974 comics endings
- 009-1
- All in Sport
- Batman (comic strip)
- Billy the Cat (British comics)
- Cor!!
- Corentin (comics)
- Dateline: Danger!
- Dotty Dripple
- Etrigan the Demon
- Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion
- Friday Foster
- Hamster Jovial
- Jeff Hawke
- June (comics)
- Lion (comics)
- Mirko and Slavko
- Muggs and Skeeter
- Nguyen Charlie
- Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke
- Princess Tina
- Sally Forth (Wally Wood comic strip)
- Sazae-san
- Scorcher (magazine)
- Secret Origins
- Secrets of Sinister House
- Shiver and Shake
- Spoofer McGraw
- Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane
- Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
- TV Casper and Company
- The Astounding Adventures of Charlie Peace
- The Berrys
- The McTickles
- The Strange World of Mr. Mum
- Valentine (comics)
- Weird Worlds (comics)
Association football comics
- Ball Boy (Beano)
- Billy the Fish
- Billy's Boots
- Cleats (comic strip)
- F.C. De Kampioenen (comic)
- Gorgeous Gus
- Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse
- Look Out for Lefty!
- Meg!
- Owen Goal
- Pelezinho (comics)
- Roel Dijkstra
- Roy of the Rovers
- Roy of the Rovers (comic)
- Scorcher (magazine)
- Spike (DC Thomson)
- Striker (comic)
- Supa Strikas
Magazines disestablished in 1974
- Architectural Forum
- Argosy (UK magazine)
- Checkpoint (journal)
- Cor!!
- Fusion (music magazine)
- Go-Set
- Graphic Story Magazine
- If (magazine)
- June (comics)
- Kriminal
- Lion (comics)
- Moeder
- Moto (magazine)
- Princess Tina
- Puss (magazine)
- Railway Transportation
- Satanik
- Scorcher (magazine)
- Shiver and Shake
- Situationist Antinational
- SoloSol
- The Modern Hospital
- The West Indian Review
- Vennen
- Vindrosen
- Walkabout (magazine)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorcher_(magazine)
Also known as Scorcher (comic), Score (comic).