Tiger (Fleetway)

Tiger was a British comic magazine published from 1954 to 1985, originally by Amalgamated Press (AP) and later by IPC/Fleetway.
The comic was launched under the editorship of Derek Birnage on 11 September 1954, under the name "Tiger – The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly", and featured predominantly sporting strips. Its most popular strip was "Roy of the Rovers", a football-based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. This strip proved so successful it was spun out of "Tiger" and into its own comic. In addition, sports stars such as Tony Greig, Geoff Boycott, Trevor Francis, Ian Botham, and Charlie Nicholas wrote columns for "Tiger". Also many TV stars such as Morecambe and Wise appeared in Christmas issues, usually dressed up as Santa Claus.
The next editor was Barrie Tomlinson. Tomlinson became Group Editor in 1976, with Paul Gettens as editor. 
Following successive mergers with other AP publications in the 1950s, the comic was known as "Tiger Incorporating the Champion" (from 1955) and then (from 1959) "Tiger and Comet". Following successive mergers with other Fleetway publications in the 1960s the comic was known as "Tiger and Hurricane" (from May 1965), then (from 1969) "Tiger and Jag" for many years. It was coupled with the football magazine "Scorcher" in 1974, resulting in "Tiger and Scorcher" appearing for more than six years. In 1980, there was a further, less successful, merger with another comic called "Speed". The end finally came on 30 March 1985, with "Tiger" merging into "The Eagle" from issue #159 of that comic, dated 6 April 1985, which was temporarily titled "Eagle and Tiger" (with some strips from "Tiger" coming to the merged publications.) 
In all, 1,555 issues were published, as well as a number of hard-cover annuals.
Editorial Assistants included Tony Peagam, Paul Gettens, and Terence Magee. Art Editors included Mike Swanson and Trish Gordon-Pugh. Art Assistant: Maurice Dolphin. Letterers: Stanley Richardson, Paul Bensberg, Peter Knight, John Aldrich.
List of strips.
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