171 issues of Scorcher and SCORE from 3 July 1971 to 5 October 1974.

77 issues of Scorcher from 10 January 1970 to 26 June 1971.

In total, 548 weekly comics were published with Scorcher in the title, with the following cover dates (the comic usually appeared for sale one week before its cover date, and capitalisations are as they actually appeared on the title bar of the comics): The word Scorcher started with almost equal prominence to TIGER on the title page, but as usually happened with such mergers the title size was reduced in November 1975, and again in February 1978 before finally being dropped from the title of the comic after the issue dated 30 August In July 1971, Scorcher joined with another football-themed comic, Score (initially called Score 'n' Roar, launched in September 1970), to form Scorcher and SCORE, before finally merging into Tiger to become TIGER and Scorcher. In addition to its realistic and comedic football themed stories, it contained factual items about British professional football, and advertisements not only for contemporary toys, games and confectionery, but also others aimed at an older readership, such as for the Charles Atlas body building method, and recruitment advertisements for the Police, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

IPC Magazines, the publishers of Scorcher, always referred to it as a 'paper' rather than a comic in its editorials, to distinguish it from more child oriented publications such as The Beano or The Dandy. Some of these stories later found homes in Roy of the Rovers and in Tiger.

In addition, the Nipper strip was absorbed from the Score comic, and Hot Shot Hamish made its first appearance after that. Scorcher featured various well-known comic strips, such as Billy's Boots, Bobby of the Blues and Lags Eleven, a story about a prison football team. Scorcher was the name of a football-themed British comic magazine published by IPC between January 1970 and October 1974.

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