Tiger was a British comic magazine

Comic magazine

Comic magazine may refer to:*A periodical containing comic strips, in the UK referred to as comic.*In the U.S., more commonly referred to as a comic book.*In Japan comic magazines are called manga.*See also Franco-Belgian comics magazines....

 published from 1954 to 1985. The comic was launched under the editorship of Derek Birnage

Derek Birnage

Derek Arthur William Birnage was a British comics editor and writer and newspaper editor, best known as the founding editor of the weekly sports comic Tiger and as a writer of Roy of the Rovers....

 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

Roy of the Rovers

Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers...

, a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

-based strip recounting the life of Roy Race

Roy Race

Roy Race is a fictional character from the British comic strip Roy of the Rovers. He is a professional footballer who plays for, and later manages, Melchester Rovers in the First Division and the Premier League.-Fictional biography:...

 and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers

Melchester Rovers

Melchester Rovers are a fictional football team with whom Roy Race spent most of his illustrious career in the British comic strip Roy of the Rovers, which first appeared in Tiger at its inception in 1954.- Early years :...

. This strip proved so successful it was spun out of Tiger and into its own comic.

The comic was merged with the football magazine Scorcher in the mid '70s, and became known as Tiger and Scorcher (unusual for such mergers it kept this title for several years). Later there was a further, less successful, merger with another comic called Speed. The end finally came on 30 March 1985, with some strips moving to The Eagle

Eagle (comic)

Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...

. In all, 1,555 issues were published, as well as a number of hard-cover annual

Annual publication

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List of strips

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• Billy's Boots
  Billy's Boots
  Billy's Boots was a popular British comic strip by writer Fred Baker and artist John Gillatt, later continued by Mike Western. There was an earlier, humour series called Billy's Boots, written and drawn by Frank Purcell, which appeared in Tiger between 1961 and 1963, with a similar premise to this...
  
   – moved to Eagle
  Eagle (comic)
  Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...
  
  , then Roy of the Rovers
  Roy of the Rovers (comic)
  The Roy of the Rovers comic was launched as a weekly on 25 September 1976, named after the established comic strip of the same name that first appeared as weekly feature in the Tiger on 11 September 1954. The title ran for 853 issues, until 20 March 1993, and included other football...
  
  
• Death Wish – moved to Eagle
  Eagle (comic)
  Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...
  
  
• Fairs Please!
• File of Fame
• Fisty Flynn
• Football Family Robinson about a lower division side called Thatchem United. All players had to be Robinson family members under the tutelage of Grandma Robinson. Team members included Crash Robinson (goalie), Alf Robinson, Fred Robinson, Grizzly Bear Robinson, Ron Robinson and Tich Robinson. Their biggest moment was when they got to Wembley and won the League Cup, in a manner similar to Swindon Town's 1969 victory over Arsenal in the same competition. The story resumed in Roy of the Rovers in the late 1970s.
• Golden Boy – moved to Eagle
  Eagle (comic)
  Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...
  
  
• Hot Shot Hamish – moved to Roy of the Rovers
  Roy of the Rovers
  Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers...
  
  
• Jet-Ace Logan
  Jet-Ace Logan
  Jet-Ace Logan was a British comic strip appearing in The Comet 1956-1959 and Tiger 1959-1968, plus the 1969 Tiger Annual.The hero, Logan, is the ace interplanetary pilot of the RAF, in a time about 100 years in the future...
  
  
• Johnny Cougar – A native American wrestler who grappled with a number of colourful opponents.
• King Of The Track
• Martin's Marvellous Mini
• Nipper
• Olac the Gladiator
• Paceman
• Rod And Line
• Roy of the Rovers
  Roy of the Rovers
  Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers...
  
   – spun off into its own comic in 1976 (but continued to have stories in Tiger for a couple of years after this)
• Skid Solo – a British Formula 1 Driver in the 70s/80s
• Sintek
• The Strong Guy
• Star Rider – moved to Eagle
  Eagle (comic)
  Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...
  
  
• The Suicide Six
  The Suicide Six
  The Suicide Six was the title of a serial that ran in Tiger in the 1960s, describing the fantastic exploits of a six-person squad of allied troops from various British Empire nations fighting in North Africa during the Second World War....
  
  
• Tallon of the Track – tomboy Jo Tallon runs the Flying Ospreys speedway team
• Topps On Two Wheels (title later changed to Topps)
• The Tough Game – a rugby league story involving the exploits of three friends, Duggie Batson, Big Ernie Barnes and Ape Man.
• Typhoon Tracy, Trouble-shooter

In addition, sports stars such as Geoff Boycott, Trevor Francis, Ian Botham and Charlie Nicholas wrote columns for Tiger.