I.P.C. Magazines / Buster, Lion, Scorcher, Smash, Tiger - FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars ~ Blue backs

1970
FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Buster
FLE-290/IBP-2-2 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Lion
FLE-290/IBP-2-3 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Scorcher
FLE-290/IBP-2-4 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Smash
FLE-290/IBP-2-5 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Tiger
I.P.C. Magazines / Buster, Lion, Scorcher, Smash, Tiger
32 per magazine, 160 in total

I've had another e-mail and some scans from Roger Pashby:

I don’t think you’ve covered this series of cards yet. They were issued in several comics to be placed in one of five little booklets. I’ve included the list of who was issued when – I’ll let you type them all up! The five comics and little booklets to place them in were Scorcher, Lion, Smash, Buster and Tiger. There was another set which went into a booklet for Valiant and TV21 and there is a separate list for those which will be in the back of the Valiant and TV21 booklet, which I don’t yet have so I can’t confirm anyone there.

I have come to the conclusion that there must have been TWO series of these cards, because there are no Huddersfield players in the lists that I sent you.
Town had been promoted by May of 1970 – after the publication dates in the back of the booklet that I sent to you – and I have five Town player cards, three of which (Cherry, McGill and Krzywicki) were issued by Tiger but they don’t appear in the lists, leading me to believe that there must have been another set in 1971. Also, the Worthington card is issued by Lion & Thunder, suggesting that by then the comics had merged and there was ONE booklet covering those cards, and again Big Frank doesn’t appear in the list on the page for Lion.

The more that I type, the more I begin to think that you probably know all of this. But just in case you didn’t…

Always happy to oblige, here's the complete list, all the cards, when they were issued and with which magazines (a last-minute decision - I've decided to include all the blue ones in this post and will cover the red ones next):

FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Buster (07-02-1970)

Len Glover (Leicester City)
Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur)
Barry Hole (Aston Villa)
Cliff Jackson (Crystal Palace)
Bobby Moore (West Ham United)
Colin Stein (Glasgow Rangers)
Alec Stepney (Manchester United)
Billy Baxter (Ipswich Town)

FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Buster (14-02-1970)

Allan Clarke (Leeds United)
Peter Shilton (Leicester City)
Ian Hutchinson (Chelsea)
Chris Jones (Swindon Town)
Bobby Hunt (Ipswich Town)
Paul Walker (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Johnny Haynes (Fulham)
Alun Evans (Liverpool)

FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Buster (21-02-1970)

Alan Birchenall (Chelsea)
Gary Sprake (Leeds United)
John Fitzpatrick (Manchester United)
John Talbot (West Bromwich Albion)
Derek Clarke (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Sandy Brown (Everton)
Derek Bellotti (Gillingham)
Terry Neill (Arsenal)

FLE-290/IBP-2-1 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Buster (28-02-1970)

John Hollins (Chelsea)
Roger Hynd (Crystal Palace)
Keith Weller (Millwall)
Alan Oakes (Manchester City)
Jim Furnell (Rotherham United)
Willie Carlin (Derby County)
John Regan (Doncaster Rovers)
Frank Clark (Newcastle United)

FLE-290/IBP-2-2 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Lion (07-02-1970)

Alan Gilzean (Tottenham Hotspur)
Gordon Harris (Sunderland)
Mick Jones (Leeds United)
Tony Book (Manchester City)
Joe Royle (Everton)
John Dunn (Aston Villa)
George Best (Manchester United)
Joe Kiernan (Northampton Town)

FLE-290/IBP-2-2 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Lion (14-02-1970)

Jack Charlton (Leeds United)
Ron Springett (Queens Park Rangers)
Andy Lockhead (Leicester City)
Colin Todd (Sunderland)
Rodney Johnson (Doncaster Rovers)
Tony Hateley (Birmingham City)
John Sissons (West Ham United)
Mike Summerbee (Manchester City)

FLE-290/IBP-2-2 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Lion (21-02-1970)

John Giles (Leeds United)
John Boyle (Chelsea)
Brian Labone (Everton)
Johnny Newman (Exeter City)
Leighton Phillips (Cardiff City)
Patrick Buckley (Sheffield United)
Mick Leach (Queens Park Rangers)
David Nish (Leicester City)

FLE-290/IBP-2-2 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Lion (28-02-1970)

Bob Chapman (Nottingham Forest)
John Sewell (Crystal Palace)
David Webb (Chelsea)
Bill Glazier (Coventry City)
Alan Stephenson (West Ham United)
Gordon Marshall (Hibernian)
Clive Clark (Queens Park Rangers)
Freddie Jardine (Luton Town)

FLE-290/IBP-2-3 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Scorcher (07-02-1970)

Bob McNab (Arsenal)
Bobby Charlton (Manchester United)
John Clarke (Northampton Town)
Tommy Gemmell (Glasgow Celtic)
Leslie Lea (Cardiff City)
Peter Osgood (Chelsea)
Alan Skirton (Bristol City)
Brian Tiler (Aston Villa)

FLE-290/IBP-2-3 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Scorcher (14-02-1970)

Gordon Banks (Stoke City)
Martin Chivers (Tottenham Hotspur)
Gerry Gurr (Southampton)
Chris Lawler (Liverpool)
Bobby Gould (Arsenal)
Stan Horne (Fulham)
Terry Wharton (Bolton Wanderers)
David Wagstaffe (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

FLE-290/IBP-2-3 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Scorcher (21-02-1970)

Bob Wilson (Arsenal)
Cliff Jones (Fulham)
Willie Anderson (Aston Villa)
Calvin Palmer (Sunderland)
Bobby Graham (Liverpool)
Harry Harris (Portsmouth)
Mike Metcalfe (Chester)
Terry Paine (Southampton)

FLE-290/IBP-2-3 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Scorcher (28-02-1970)

Ron Harris (Chelsea)
Henry Newton (Nottingham Forest)  -  actually Dave Hilley  -  Thanks to Lee West (see comment below)
Tommy Craig (Sheffield Wednesday)
Frank Haydock (Southend United)
Tony Dunne (Manchester United)
Gerhardt Neef (Glasgow Rangers)
Mike Kelly (Queens Park Rangers)
Terry Mancini (Orient)

FLE-290/IBP-2-4 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Smash (07-02-1970)

Colin Addison (Sheffield United)
Peter Bonetti (Chelsea)
Terry Cooper (Leeds United)
David Hay (Glasgow Celtic)
Francis Lee (Manchester City)
Don Murray (Cardiff City)
Bruce Rioch (Aston Villa)
Gordon West (Everton)

FLE-290/IBP-2-4 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Smash (14-02-1970)

Alan Mullery (Tottenham Hotspur)
Dave Mackay (Derby County)
John Kaye (West Bromwich Albion)
Mike Channon (Southampton)
John O'Rourke (Ipswich Town)
James Conway (Fulham)
Rodney Marsh (Queens Park Rangers)
Willie Duff (Dunfermline Athletic)

FLE-290/IBP-2-4 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Smash (21-02-1970)

John Radford (Arsenal)
Ron Davies (Southampton)
Roger Barron (Northampton Town)
Gilbert Reece (Sheffield United)
Marvin Hinton (Chelsea)
Frankie Banks (Hull City)
John Mitten (Exeter City)
Jimmy Husband (Everton)

FLE-290/IBP-2-4 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Smash (28-02-1970)

Bob McKinlay (Nottingham Forest)
Bobby Woodruff (Crystal Palace)
Eamonn Dunphy (Millwall)
Duncan Neale (Plymouth Argyle)
Alan Miller (Raith Rovers)
Raymond Goddard (Orient)
Allan Manley (Brentford)
Len Ashurst (Sunderland)

FLE-290/IBP-2-5 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Tiger (07-02-1970)

Alan Ball (Everton)
Charlie Cooke (Chelsea)
Ian Porterfield (Sunderland)
Cliff Sear (Chester)
Gerry Young (Sheffield Wednesday)
Peter Dobing (Stoke City)
Ernie Hunt (Coventry City)
Barrie Jones (Cardiff City)

FLE-290/IBP-2-5 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Tiger - (14-02-1970)

Norman Hunter (Leeds United)
Mike England (Tottenham Hotspur)
Roger Hunt (Liverpool)
Barry Bridges (Queens Park Rangers)
John Connelly (Blackburn Rovers)
Joe Corrigan (Manchester City)
Dixie Hale (Watford)
Nobby Stiles (Manchester United)

FLE-290/IBP-2-5 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Tiger - (21-02-1970)

Hugh Curran (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
George Graham (Arsenal)
Gordon Bolland (Millwall)
Brian Yeo (Gillingham)
Mike Bailey (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Roderick Belfitt (Leeds United)
Michael Bullock (Orient)
Peter Thompson (Liverpool)

FLE-290/IBP-2-5 My Favourite Soccer Stars - Blue - Tiger - (28-02-1970)

Peter Houseman (Chelsea)
Gerry Queen (Crystal Palace)
Shay Brennan (Manchester United)
Alan Harris (Queens Park Rangers)
Derek Woodley (Gillingham)
Keith Bradley (Aston Villa)
Asa Hartford (West Bromwich Albion)
Barry Lloyd (Fulham)