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Garry White recalls the football comic book heroes of yesteryear

Garry White takes a trip down memory lane to recall some famous comic book heroes.

Garry White takes a trip down memory lane to recall some famous comic book heroes.

Every Tuesday (or was it Wednesday?) morning, as regular as clockwork, my grandad would hop onto his purple-coloured pushbike and go to pick it up for me. Safely, he would transport it home from the nearby paper shop, carefully wrapped in his regulation copy of the Daily Mirror. And there it would be, sitting unblemished on the table, waiting for me to get home from school and greedily thumb through it.
As a kid in what would have been the mid-to-late 80s, I was never really into comics. Perhaps their heyda...

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