*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Football has always been a popular theme of British comics, but Scorcher, launching in 1970, was one of the earliest weeklies to make it an all-consuming theme. Given its respectable five-year run, the creators did a decent job of it, even if there was a lot of imagination-stretching to introduce variations: ‘Lags Eleven’ (footballing convicts), ‘Lord Rumsey’s Rovers’ (footballing aristocrats), the superbly bonkers ‘Kangaroo Kid’ (footballing feral child raised by marsupials) and ‘Billy’s Boots’, in which a klutzy lad finds a magically-endowed pair of boots belonging to a legendary player, and gains his skills from them – so, cheating, basically. ‘Billy’s Boots’ was the strip that Would Not Die, running for many years after Scorcher’s demise in Tiger, and reappearing in the 1990s in Striker. We are chuffed to welcome the first three issues into stock, in exceptional grades. From the same source as our ‘Immaculate Annuals’ selections – see other updates for details – these are uncirculated copies from a newsagent’s stockpile, in beautiful condition. The copies themselves are clean and fresh, VF, with only the very slightest edge discolouration from long-term storage, but tight corners and clean, firm staples. The free gift wallcharts – ‘Your Team Records’ in #1, ‘Your Team Progress’ in #2, and ‘The Road to the FA Cup’ in #3 – having been stored flat all these decades, are nearly perfect NM (we haven’t pictured these, but trust us, they are present!). Issue #1 VF with Gift NM is £75; issues #2 & #3, each VF with Free Gift NM, are £50 each. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD