BARRIE TOMLINSON reflects on his adventures with the likes of Roy of the Rovers, Tiger, Billy’s Boots and Hot-Shot Hamish…

BARRIE TOMLINSON

Keeping up to date: Tommy Docherty’s Manchester United show off their copies of Tiger.

I THINK I had the best job in the world. I was Group Editor of the Boys’ Sport and Adventure Department at IPC Magazines and I was responsible for such classic comic titles as Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, the new Eagle and a host of others.
I’d started as a sub editor on Lion, in 1961, then I moved to Tiger where I first met a character ...