UPDATED: Roy of the Rovers - M&S merchandise

Back in 2012 Marks & Spencer carried an exclusive range of Roy of the Rovers merchandise - there's more than this just this pinball game to track down but you've got to start somewhere!

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a table football table!

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a set of football quiz cards 

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a celebration trophy

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a blow football set

And now, thanks to Trevor Melvin, we have a mug & sock combo - the socks have 'He shoots He scores - Roy of the Rovers' embroidered on them. 

and also a hand towel, c/o Ian Thornhill

I've also now got a list of what was produced, thanks to friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs who pointed me towards this (contemporary) article from 2012 that lists all 10 things that M&S produced. Weirdly that list doesn't include the football quiz card (above) but there you go. 

For this update I now have images of the M&S edition of the Best of the 1970s reprint book... 

NEXT UPDATE:

over on the Roy of the Rovers facebook page (here) Chris Mabbutt was kind enough to supply these images of the key-ring

YET FURTHER UPDATE:

over on the Roy of the Rovers facebook page (here) Ian Thornhill was kind enough to supply these images of the wallet...

That just leaves me looking for images of...

a). football hand warmers

b). whatever the 3rd thing is in the image below

Some images of some of the missing items - better images sought!

UPDATED: Fleetway Editions limited., 1992 structure

An interesting page from the October 1992 SSI journal (as featured on the blog yesterday) is this diagram of the then current structure of Fleetway Editions limited.

Interesting points to note...

Group One contains "Law in Order" - which is actually better known as "The complete Judge Dredd comic" (the title logo said Law in Order)

Group Two contains Greenbug comic - which I looked at here and here

Group Two contains Young Indiana Jones - but I'm not aware of London Editions publishing a Young Indiana Jones title??? It could have been a reprint of material published contemporaneously by Dark Horse??

What was project "Odyssey"??

What was project "Oh No!!"??

UPDATE: I got some very useful feedback on the above two projects so I'm recording those Facebook comments here for posterity...thanks to all who contributed...

 

UPDATED: Roy of the Rovers - M&S merchandise

Back in 2012 Marks & Spencer carried an exclusive range of Roy of the Rovers merchandise - there's more than this just this pinball game to track down but you've got to start somewhere!

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a table football table!

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a set of football quiz cards 

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a celebration trophy

And now here's another bit of merchandise - a blow football set

And now, thanks to Trevor Melvin, we have a mug & sock combo - the socks have 'He shoots He scores - Roy of the Rovers' embroidered on them. 

and also a hand towel, c/o Ian Thornhill

I've also now got a list of what was produced, thanks to friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs who pointed me towards this (contemporary) article from 2012 that lists all 10 things that M&S produced. Weirdly that list doesn't include the football quiz card (above) but there you go. So I'm still looking for...

For this update I I now have images of the M&S edition of the Best of the 1970s reprint book... 

UPDATE:

over on the Roy of the Rovers facebook page (here) Chris Mabbutt was kind enough to supply these images of the key-ring

That just leaves me looking for images of...

a). leather wallet

b). football hand warmers

Some images of some of the missing items - better images sought!