Score 'n' Roar (just Score later in its life) was a football weekly published by IPC from 1970 to 1971, containing both comic strips and magazine features. Like Whizzer and Chips and Shiver and Shake it was built on a "two comics in one" structure, with Roar given away as a pull-out in Score; this idea was later dropped, hence the name change.
Although all of the strips revolved around football, their genres ranged from fantasy ("Phantom of the Forest", about a ghostly footballer) to humour ("Trouble Shooter", starring "the go-anywhere, do-anything, soccer twit" Bertie Bentboot). The comic lasted for 41 weeks before merging into Scorcher. One strip, * "Nipper", outlasted both titles and ended up in Lion.[1]
Strips included...
- "Cannonball Craig"
- "Peter the Cat"
- "Phantom of the Forest"
- "Trouble Shooter"
- "Nipper"