1992-93
Get Stuck in with Roy of the Rovers
Fleetway Publications / Roy of the Rovers Monthly
4 stickers
Going by the Roy of the Rovers logo on this sticker sheet it must have been included with the magazine some time between 10 October, 1992 and the penultimate issue dated 14 March, 1993. I've seen the covers for all of those issues but I am unable to discover which issue it was included with.
UPDATE (12-04-2022 19:46): An anonymous comment has identified the issued that this sticker sheet was included with - it was the February 1994 issue of Roy of the Rovers Monthly. The characters have also been identified.
'Rocky' Race [aka Roy Race jr] - Boom!
The Gaffer [the fictitious editor of the monthly] - Kick It!
Get Stuck in with Roy of the Rovers
Paul Delroy Ntende [aka Delroy of the Rovers] - Respect!
These stickers were free with issue 6 of the short lived Roy of The Rovers Monthly that was cover dated February 1994 and went on sale on the third Saturday in January 1994. The characters pictured are 'Rocky' Race [aka Roy Race jr], The Gaffer [the fictitious editor of the monthly], and Paul Delroy Ntende [aka Delroy of the Rovers].
ReplyDeleteRoy of The Rovers Monthly ran for 19 issues - the final copy was dated March 1995 - before poor sales ended it's run. It combined new comic strips [Roy of The Rovers as well as others] with reprinted material from older editions of Roy of The Rovers comic such as Nipper, Lord Rumsey's Rovers, and the original Roy of The Rovers. I'm not sure if the storyline covered in the 19 issues of the Monthly is considered 'canon' in ROTR circles though as it contained significant alterations to the established timeline, most notably by claiming the original Roy Race [as seen as a 16 yr old in Tiger #1 back in 1954] had his career ended by an injury in 1958. However he'd married at age 16 and had a son called Roy jr, who made his debut for Melchester in the 1970 European Cup Final aged 16, and this was the famous Roy Race of the 70s and 80s, finally retiring after the helicopter crash in March 1993 that saw his left leg amputated. Which made the Roy Race jr [known as 'Rocky' and born in 1977 alongside his twin Melinda] the third Roy Race in the dynasty - making his debut aged 16 for Melchester in the pages of Shoot weekly and this Roy of The Rovers monthly at the start of the 1993/94 season. The Monthly also controversially ditched all of Melchester's traditional opponents in favour of an entirely new set of teams based on thinly disguised English Premiership teams such as Tynecastle United, Dudley Villa, Sherwood Forest and Toxteth.
Fascinating, thank you very much for your contribution and for helping to identify which issue the stickers come from.
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