As I've mentioned before, adventure strips tended to avoid Christmas episodes as it interfered with the flow of the story, but Roy of the Rovers remained seasonal...
Inside, there wasn't much Christmas content, but here's a complete Police Dog Kim story for the occasion. Artist unknown.
The comic strip format was often used for adverts in the 1950s, such as this one for Rowntree's Fruit Gums...
Back then, Tiger carried a mixture of strips and prose stories. Here's Biff Bailey, Fighting Fury...
Finally, a review of Tiger's Top Sportsmen of 1958!
More festive fun tomorrow!
Biff Bailey was drawn by Ron Simmons the original Rockfist Rogan illustrator in Champion and the sports star feature was drawn by Bert Vandeput who took over drawing Roy of the Rover's in 1959.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Ray. I'm not familiar with Ron Simmons' work but I should have recognised Bert Vandeput's style.
ReplyDeleteThis was way before my time so I'd like to think thi sisn't nostalgia talking, but comic artwork seemed so much better back when these comics came out. Same with the old EC horror comics. Amazing looking art! Managed to have a bit of a unique style to it without looking overly stylized.
ReplyDeleteI think it might be because a lot of those artists had a different training as illustrators than today's comics-inspired artists. That said, there are still some wonderful artists around today. Sean Phillips for one example.
ReplyDeleteOkay now I am curious. Who were Vanwall and what happened to them? Thanks for the Tiger I have not seen as I living in somewhere in Quebec and only three at the time.
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