Yet one more in the same layout and style of those other family favourites ‘Hotspur’ - ‘Wizard’ and ‘Adventure’. Pictures covers and stories within.

The Rover was one of the oldies first published on 4th March 1922 and serving the nation throughout the Second War until cessation in December 1961.

If you were lucky enough to have issue No. 1 dated as above, then your ‘Rover’ would fetch you a handsome profit of around £120.00 today!

After it ceased publication in 1961, it was united with ‘Adventure’ and in January 1973 these two comics were teamed up with ‘Wizard’. In fact, a couple of their features ‘I flew with Braddock’ and ‘The Tough of the Track’ later appeared in cartoon strip format in ‘The Victor’.

The story line was good reading and educational albeit a little far fetched and one such section from an article went on:

You’ll never get in, he said bluntly. ‘It’s madness to try’.

Rod did not answer. He went into a small cave. When he reappeared he was wearing the suit of a frogman. On his back an oilskin haversack was strpped. Ice-pick and piton hammer were attached to his belt. For a few moments Rod stood on the brink of the gorge. The startled onlookers saw him jump...

For those wishing to know the end, tune in to Rover February 25th 1950.

This was taken from 'The Rover' 18th February 1950! Great ain't it? 'Comic Cuts' series