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The Rover 1972

An issue from 1972

The Rover was a boys' story paper published by DC Thomson from 4 March 1922. It absorbed Adventure in 1961 and The Wizard in 1963, and finally folded on 13 January 1973.

Features included:

  • "The Big Tree"
  • "Pony Express"
  • "V for Vengeance"
  • "I Flew with Braddock"
  • "Alf Tupper - the Tough of the Track"
  • "The Dixie Drummer"
  • "The Lincolnshire Poacher"
  • "The Barrow Boy from Mars"
  • "The Big Fellow"
  • "The 'Tec Nobody Knows"

Dudley D. Watkins contributed illustrations to the early issues.

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