*Collected Editions: New from Rebellion, the story of Billy Dane, who acquired a pair of magic football boots once belonging to an England striker and thus was endowed with that striker’s skills. There was a forerunner of this strip first appearing in Tiger from 1961 and 1963, before being relaunched in Scorcher in 1970, which is the more famous series reprinted here. Since then it has crossed into a lengthy list of publications in an amazing spell of longevity. Not bad for a chap who got where he did by cheating…
PICTURED: BILLY’S BOOTS HC £20