Showing posts with label Adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adventure. Show all posts

Wednesday 13 April 2022

D.C. Thomson - Adventure / The Rover / The Skipper / The Wizard - Football Towns & Their Crests (1931)


D.C. Thomson 
Adventure / The Rover / The Skipper / The Wizard 
Football Towns & Their Crests 
1931
32 Cards

Liverpool, Coventry, Greenock, Cardiff  &  The Sirius (1838)   
The Wizard, Issue No. 440,  9 May 1931

The four main comics published by D.C. Thomson gave away similar cards over an eight week period. These cards are usually found cut, so you'll normally find the Famous Towns & Their Crests without the Famous Ship attached. They are much harder to find uncut.

The other Welsh clubs featured in this series are:

Stockport, Inverness, Bangor, Wrexham  &  Lusitania  
Adventure, Issue No. 502, 13 June 1931

Sheffield, Swansea, Cowdenbeath, Bolton  &  The Resolution 
Skipper, Issue No. 36, 9 May 1931

Bradford, Newport, Kirkcaldy, Bournemouth  &  Fram   
The Wizard, Issue No. 442, 23 May 1931

Wednesday 30 December 2020

D.C. Thomson / Adventure - The Mysto Mind-Reader Football Mystery Cards 1929



D.C. THOMSON
ADVENTURE
THE MYSTO MIND-READER FOOTBALL MYSTERY CARDS
1929
A SET OF 10 CARDS

Card 1    Davies
 Card 4    Ferguson
Card 9    Keenor

These cards were given free with issue 380 of Adventure 9 February 1929

Wednesday 26 July 2017

D.C. Thomson / Adventure - Famous Club Colours And Players 1923


D.C. THOMSON
ADVENTURE
FAMOUS CLUB COLOURS AND PLAYERS
1923
12 SHEETS

R.C.  Brittan

Issued as 12 sheets with 9 players per sheet, these are more commonly found cut into single players. This Cardiff one was from sheet 3.

Friday 21 July 2017

D.C. Thomson / Adventure, The Rover - The Skipper - The Wizard - Football Team Cards 1933



D.C. THOMSON
ADVENTURE, THE ROVER, THE SKIPPER, THE WIZARD
FOOTBALL TEAM CARDS
1933
64 CARDS

12.     Cardiff City

Issued in blocks of 4 in the above D.C. Thomson published comics